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…

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…

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…

Claire Matthews is a bi, neurodivergent writer, editor, and creative facilitator who lives on the unceded, traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Tsleil-Waututh nations. With a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the…

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…

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…

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…

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. 

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…

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…

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…

Lise Mayne, author, lives in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. Historical injustice and the search for home are central themes of her work. Her novel Becoming Sand, presented a fictional Francophone family’s history in Canada. Her new novel Time Enough, Oprelle Publications 2024, is the…

Susan Mayse writes fiction and nonfiction.  

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…

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,…

Karen McBride is an Algonquin Anishnaabe writer from Timiskaming First Nation. She loves to write stories about truth, healing, and magic. Her debut novel, Crow Winter, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards, the PMC Indigenous Literature Award, and the Sunburst Award for…

I'm the author of the Rancour Chronicles, Flying Feet, Children of Ruin, The Three Spartans and Spartan at Sea. I have written book reviews for CM magazine and have taught countless workshops for schools, school divisions, libraries, universities, BCLA, BCTELA, Writer’s Union…

Susan McCaslin has published eighteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Field Play (Ekstasis Editions, 2024). Her handcrafted chapbook, Sentient Stones (Raven Press) came out in June 2023. In Dec. 2022 her poem, "Consider the Western Red Cedar" won first…

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…

Gael McCool lives, teaches and writes in Halfmoon Bay BC. She is in the process of publishing her second book. www.gaelmccool.com

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…

Rosemary McCracken is the author of the Pat Tierney mystery series: Safe Harbor, Black Water, Raven Lake and Uncharted Waters. A finalist for Crime Writers of Canada's Unhanged Arthur Award, the Debut Dagger and the Derringer Award, Rosemary's short stories have appeared in…