Kyo Maclear was born in London, England and moved to Canada at the age of four. She is a Toronto-based visual arts writer, novelist and children's author. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Shambhala Sun, Saturday Night, The Guardian, Canadian Art, Brick, This…

Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and movement teacher (yoga, Feldenkrais Method), who leads 'body-centred writing' workshops. She recently completed her first book of poetry. Her nonfiction book, In Praise of Retreat, won a Gold Independent Book Publishers' Award in 2021, and…

Logan Macnair was born in Williams Lake, British Columbia and is currently based in Burnaby. His second novel, Troll (2023, Now Or Never Publishing), explores the nature of connection, alienation, and the occasional ugliness of the modern digital age. His debut novel Panegyric …

Margaret Macpherson (she/her) has lived and written in Yellowknife, Halifax, Bermuda, Edmonton, Vancouver and Nelson, BC. She has recently decamped  to Eastern Ontario. She is the author of eight books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her newest work Tracking the Caribou Queen:…

Tamara has three “boys” aged 13, 15 and 49, and is the guardian of quirky second-hand dogs. Journalism and political science degrees from Carleton University paved the way for Tamara to serve as a voice for several not-for-profit organizations spanning two decades. A writer and…

Roy MacSkimming is the author of four novels and three works of non-fiction.  His historical novels recreate the personal lives of two great Canadian political leaders. Macdonald (Thomas Allen, 2007) portrays the final days of Canada's controversial first prime minister, Sir…

Darlene Madott is an award-winning writer who practised law in Toronto for more than 35 years. Author of a growing number of books, her 9th and most recent work, WINNERS AND LOSERS (Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss) Guernica, spring, 2023, offers a front-row seat onto the field…

Colette Maitland writes fiction, poetry and the occasional essay in Gananoque, ON. In 2013, Biblioasis published her first book, Keeping the Peace (short stories), which went on to be short-listed for the 2014 Re-Lit Award. The novel Riel Street with Frontenac House came out the…

Vancouver-based DesiPOC author Tāriq Malik has worked across poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual arts for the past four decades to distill immersive and original narratives. He writes intensely in response to the world in flux around him and to his place in its shadows.…

  Fareh Malik is a BIPOC artist from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word poet and established author. Fareh was named the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winner. He was also the winner of Hamilton Art’s Shirley Elford Prize, The 2022 October Project Poetry…

Vera Maloff was born into a Doukhobor family who lived on a market garden farm in Thrums, British Columbia. She studied at Selkirk College in Castlegar, obtained a teaching certificate from Notre Dame University in Nelson and received her BEd and Diploma in Guidance Studies from…

Born in Ontario, educated in Montréal, Stephens Gerard Malone currently lives and writes on Canada’s east coast. In 1994, he published his first novel, Endless Bay (Mercury Press) under the pseudonym, Laura Fairburn. His second novel, Miss Elva (Random House Canada) followed in…

Adam Mardero founded the blog Differently Wired in 2011 to educate and advocate for neurodiversity. He holds a Master’s Degree in History and a Bachelor of Education. Since coming to terms with being neurodivergent, he’s dedicated his life to helping further the causes of Autism…

Amela Marin moved to Canada from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Her writing appeared in magazines in former Yugoslavia, as well as Poetry Today, Meta, Gastronomica, Descant, PRISM International, BBC Radio and Radio Netherlands. "The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine", a memoir about…

LARA MARGARET MARJERRISON is a queer, multidisciplinary artist with a vision of impacting the world around her through the transformative power of visual art and storytelling. She spends her days writing poetry and prose, dabbling in photography, and playing with paint, bringing…

Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia. She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University…

Irene Marques is a bilingual writer (writing in English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University in the English Department where she teaches literature, literary theory, and creative writing. She has also taught at the University of Toronto, York…

Yolanda T. Marshall is a Guyanese-born Canadian Author. As a cross-genre writer. The oldest of three girls, she began writing poems at the age of 8 years old. A daughter of a talented Jazz Guitarist, her lyrics manifest into poetry like a genetic code. Poems such as “Serenaded…

Kate offers spontaneous occasional p.o.e.m.s "Poems of the Extraordinary Moment" live and on zoom. She also guides poetry workshops for all ages live and on zoom. See Kate's books, award-winning performance poetry videos, sample poems, and StillPoint Writing and Poetry Editing…

Montrealer Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland heritage—she can tell a good joke, but it bombs. She has been a filmmaker, a baker, an app designer, a marketer, a farmer, and editor of online culture journal Rover Arts. In 2011, she founded the Friends of Hutchison Street…