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Winnipeg
Carol Matas is the author of over forty-five books for children and young adults. She has written science fiction, fantasy, contemporary, and historical fiction. She often writes on Jewish themes, and is well-known for her books concerning the Holocaust. Her books have garnered…
Winnipeg
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Matas
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Calgary
Aviation adventures are featured in eight of Shirlee Smith Matheson's 21 published books (14 nonfiction for adult readers and seven young adult novels) as well as short stories and stage plays. She is an alumnus of The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and has instructed…
Calgary
Shirlee
Matheson
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Saskatoon
Ashleigh Mattern has been working as a professional writer since 2007, getting her start at the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper the Sheaf and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Today, she’s the co-owner of Vireo Creative Website Design & Marketing and co-owner of Play…
Saskatoon
Ashleigh
Mattern
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CHESLEY
I’m the award winning author of the debut contemporary literary short story collection Took You So Long, published by the Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario August 2022. In May 2023, Took You So Long received an IPPY 🥇GOLD (Independent Publishers Book Award) Canada East—Regional…
CHESLEY
Cynthia (Cindy)
Matthews
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Kingston
Highly experienced, full-time freelance writer specializing in travel, lifestyle, and parenting topics. Specialize in covering low-impact ecotourism as well as soft adventures (kayaking, canoeing, snorkelling, rafting, hiking) as well as looking for the undiscovered side of a…
Kingston
Josephine
Matyas
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Nelson
Melanie Maure is a writer and Life Coach, and she holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology. She is third-generation Irish and was born and raised in Dresden, Ontario. Currently, she lives in central British Columbia. Her time spent in Ireland has been an enduring inspiration…
Nelson
Melanie
Maure
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Toronto
Biography Joseph Maviglia
In the great tradition of spoken word, performance poets and singer-songwriters, Joseph Maviglia is renowned for his energized musical performances, written text and non-fiction essays.
Born in Ottawa, he attended the prestigious Banff Centre for the…
Toronto
joseph
maviglia
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Sudbury
A-M Mawhiney is a life-long educator and author of Spindrifts (2021) short-listed for the 8th annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize and of Spelldrifts (2023) . She lives in Northern Ontario.
Sudbury
A-M
Mawhiney
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Michael Aaron Mayes was born and raised in Calgary. After graduating from McGill University with a business degree and an inexplicable love of writing, he began his career as an advertising writer. Since then, Michael worked as a writer and creative director at various…
Michael
Mayes
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Calgary/Canmore
Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Raymond Souster Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She is a…
Calgary/Canmore
Micheline
Maylor-Kovitz
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Rona Maynard's memoir, My Mother's Daughter, tells the universal story of how a woman becomes herself because of, and in spite of, the woman who formed her--her mother. Alice Munro has called the book "wonderfully honest and enthralling."In a previous life as Editor of…
Rona
Maynard
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Susan Mayse writes fiction and nonfiction.
Susan
Mayse
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Ottawa
Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels celebrated by the critique, an essay and a collection of short stories.
Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa…
Ottawa
Monia
Mazigh
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Victoria
Rhona McAdam grew up mainly on Vancouver Island, then spent 14 years in Edmonton, and 12 years in London, England before returning to live in Victoria in 2002. She has degrees in English, Library/ Information Science, and Communications Planning, and spent a year in Parma,…
Victoria
Rhona
McAdam
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Karen is Algonquin Anishnaabe from the Timiskaming First Nation in the territory that is now Quebec. Growing up on the Rez meant the bush was her backyard and that backyard became all manner of places: Middle-earth, Hyrule, a world populated by zombies, and all things in between…
Karen
McBride
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Abbotsford
I’ve spent most of my life fighting my brain by listening to writing advice (and advice in general) intended for those with neurotypical brains (a fancy way of describing the general public). Little did I know that my brain works a little differently.
Despite having undiagnosed…
Abbotsford
James
McCann
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Langley
Susan McCaslin has published seventeen full volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Consider (Aeolus House, 2023). Her handcrafted chapbook, Sentient Stones (Raven Press) came out in June 2023. In Dec. 2022 her poem, "Consider the Western Red Cedar" won first place in the…
Langley
Susan
McCaslin
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Fredericton
In her final term at high-school Kathy Mac lived in a boarding house because her family had moved to the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan; upon graduating she joined them, for several months working as a teaching assistant in a school for expatriates’ children in Tarbella…
Fredericton
Kathleen
McConnell
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Toronto
J.R. McConvey's stories have been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize, and the Matrix Lit Pop award. His work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Joyland, EVENT, the Puritan, the New Quarterly, carte blanche, filling Station, and the Feathertale…
Toronto
Joel
McConvey
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Halfmoon Bay
Gael McCool lives, teaches and writes in Halfmoon Bay BC. She is in the process of publishing her second book. www.gaelmccool.com
Halfmoon Bay
Gael
McCool
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Toronto
Judith McCormack was born outside Chicago, and grew up in Toronto, with brief stops in Montreal and Vancouver. She has several law degrees, which have mostly served to convince her that law is a branch of fiction. Her first short story was nominated for the Journey Prize, and…
Toronto
Judith
McCormack
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