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Halifax
Allison LaSorda’s writing has been nominated for National Magazine Awards and the CBC Poetry Prize, and selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021. A recipient of scholarships from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Vermont Studio…
Halifax
Allison
LaSorda
Vancouver
Doretta Lau started watching horror movies at age nine and sketch comedy at eleven, which was probably why she ended up completing an MFA in Writing at Columbia University.
She spent her days in New York working in children’s publishing and her nights watching musicians…
Vancouver
Doretta
Lau
Swan River
Fisher Lavell is a working-class writer. Her first novel, A Seven Year Ache, was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award. She can often be seen at a distance, a row of blue hills on the horizon, walking the gravel roads and endless green fields of the Swan River Valley…
Swan River
Fisher
Lavell
Gunning Cove
Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in Mi’kma’ki. His full-length collection of poems, Come One Thing Another, came out with Gaspereau Press in the fall of 2024. His chapbooks are Lawson Roy’s Revelation (Gaspereau Press,…
Gunning Cove
Cory
Lavender
Kingston
Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published three books of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012); Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2022) and This is About Angels, Women, and Men (2022),…
Kingston
Chantel
Lavoie
Toronto
Robin D. Laws writes novels, short stories, web serials, a comic strip, and has contributed to a variety of new media projects. He was recently named Creative Director of a new fiction imprint, Stone Skin Press. His blog is a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative…
Toronto
Robin
Laws
Victoria, BC
Julie Lawson was born in Victoria, B.C. and graduated from the University of Victoria with an Honours B.A. in French. She lived and taught in France, travelled extensively, and settled in rural East Sooke on Vancouver Island. She taught elementary school for 18 years. She now…
Victoria, BC
Julie
Lawson
Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka
Sharon Lax is a teacher and author. Her collection of short stories, Shattered Fossils (2020), is available through Guernica Editions. She is ever grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts’ assistance in developing her latest collection of poetry that explores the loss we’re…
Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka
Sharon
Lax
VICTORIA
An award-winning writer on the history of exploration and cartography, and on history of natural history
of Vancouver Island. Resident in Victoria, B.C. For details please see website
VICTORIA
Michael
Layland
Pembroke
Jennifer is a small business marketing author and speaker. Located in Pembroke, Ontario, Jennifer has been working with small businesses for nearly 20 years. In 2023, she published her first book – Forward Thinking for Your Business – after noticing that many small business…
Pembroke
Jennifer
Layman
NORTH VANCOUVER
Eve Lazarus is a reporter and author and she hosts and produces the Cold Case Canada true crime podcast. Her books include the BC bestsellers Cold Case BC, Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Sweat and Fear; Cold Case Vancouver; Sensational Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed:…
NORTH VANCOUVER
Eve
Lazarus
Winnipeg
Anna Lazowski wrote her first picture book for a class assignment in the sixth grade and has been creating stories ever since.
Now an award-winning senior producer at CBC Radio, Anna has an MA (Journalism) from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA (Hons.) from the…
Winnipeg
Anna
Lazowski
Weyburn
Anne Lazurko is an award-winning author, a no-awards farmer, and sometime poet. Her novel, What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press, 2022) received the Sask Book Awards Fiction Award and was shortlisted for both Book of the Year and the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award.…
Weyburn
Anne
Lazurko
Bowen Island
Pauline has been spinning songs and stories ever since she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Voice in 1975 from the University of Alberta. She is an award-winning screenwriter, award-winning novelist, a playwright, journalist, editor, recently published poet, and…
Bowen Island
Pauline
Le Bel
Whistler
Sara Leach is the author of nine books for children, including her most recent book, Duck Days. Its companion book, Slug Days, was a finalist for a Foreword Indie Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Penguin Days was a Bank Street Best…
Whistler
Sara
Leach
Trenton, ON
Born in Toronto, Peggy Dymond Leavey received her formal education in nine different schools between Winnipeg and Fort Chambly, Quebec. Today she lives near Trenton, Ontario with her husband. She has three grown children.A love of local history led to many freelance articles,…
Trenton, ON
Peggy
Leavey
Fanny Bay
Judy LeBlanc's most recent book is a memoir, Permission to Land, published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2024. This follows The Broken Heart of Winter, her debut novel also published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2023. A collection of short stories was published by…
Fanny Bay
Judy
LeBlanc
Calgary
Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. She was the Managing Editor at Canthius from 2022-2025. Amy’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) was long listed for the 2021…
Calgary
Amy
LeBlanc
Dartmouth
James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1973. At the time his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed.
Besides working as a teacher in Canada, Japan and Kuwait he enjoys travelling. He has had the good fortune to visit…
Dartmouth
James
Leck
