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Cambridge
Emma McKenna is a mutlidisciplinary writer and author of Chenille or Silk: Poems (Caitlin Press, 2019). She holds a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University.
Emma is available as a sensitivity reader in the themes of gender, LGBTQIA2S, class, and disability…
Cambridge
Emma
McKenna
Oakville
Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. While her debut, TIME AFTER TIME, was a rom com, she transitioned to the dark side thereafter. Her seven suspense novels include NEVER COMING HOME, THE…
Oakville
Hannah Mary
McKinnon
Vancouver
Neil McKinnon was born at a young age in an old house that is now a funeral parlour. It was June, 1941. War was raging in Europe and Joe Dimaggio was in the middle of a fifty-six-game hitting streak. Neil grew up in Togo, Saskatchewan—to the height of 5 feet 10 inches where he…
Vancouver
Neil
McKinnon
Toronto
Danielle s. McLaughlin
Danielle S. McLaughlin has been a civil liberties advocate since she was old enough to say, ”That’s not fair!” As the director of education for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Education Trustfrom 1988 to 2016, she developed programs and…
Toronto
Danielle
McLaughlin
toronto
Paul McLaughlin is an award-winning freelance writer, playwright, broadcaster, and author of about a dozen books (many private commissions), hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and countless broadcast scripts.
A leading interviewing expert, he has written two books on…
toronto
Paul
McLaughlin
Etobicoke
Scarborough
DIRK McLEAN is the author of children's picture books: Steel Drums and Ice Skates (Groundwood), Play Mas’! A Carnival ABC, and Curtain Up! (Tundra). As well as four YA Sports Stories novels with James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers: Not Out, Team Fugee, Tournament Fugee…
Scarborough
Dirk
McLean
Newmarket
Stephanie is the award-winning author of six picture books and one mid-grade novel. She reviewed children’s books for twelve years for Today’s Parent magazine (for which she got to interview the legendary Maurice Sendak!), operated an online bookstore for a few years called…
Newmarket
Stephanie Simpson
McLellan
Ottawa
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove…
Ottawa
rob
mclennan
Thunder Bay
Heather lives with her family on an old homestead on the edge of town overlooking Lake Superior. She studied music in University and paid for her education working as a busker and jazz singer. Upon graduation she launched her first career as a singer/songwriter. It kept her on…
Thunder Bay
Heather
McLeod
Toronto
Cinders McLeod grew up in Toronto. She picked up the doublebass at eight, played in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, then moved to England where she studied art and film. After receiving her film degree in London, she became a newspaper, comic book, magazine and conference…
Toronto
Cynthia
McLeod
Ottawa
"Susan McMaster's purview is the world entire, with all its mystery, heartbreak and magic" (Carolyn Smart, editor McGill-Queen's). Her poetry has been described as "muscular, candid, intimate yet universal... with an open, seemingly effortless control of her craft" (Heather…
Ottawa
Susan
McMaster
Kingsville
Margaret is a multimedia creator who writes, paints, produces videos for the YouTube Channel: A Sweet Enough Life, and designs journals for Mansbridge Dunn Publishers. This is what she calls retirement after working in education, business, and library services. She lives in…
Kingsville
Margaret J.
McMaster
Amber McMillan is the author of This Is a Stickup (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022), The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions, 2021), The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (Nightwood Editions, 2016), and We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). Her work has won a Penguin…
Amber
McMillan
Ottawa
CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of Charm (Book*hug 2017, winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (Book*hug 2012, finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). Toxemia (Book*hug 2024) is her first…
Ottawa
Christine
McNair
Burlington, ON
Concordia graduate and former creative writing instructor at Sheridan College and Living Arts Centre, Sylvia McNicoll has written 40 internationally published novels for young audiences and given writing workshops and talks across Canada as well as in South Korea and Colombia.…
Burlington, ON
Sylvia
McNicoll
Waterloo
David McPherson is the author of 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts (2023); Massey Hall (2021) and the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History (2017). He is a frequent contributor to GRAMMY.com, the Globe and Mail, and SOCAN’s Words and Music. He lives in…
Waterloo
David
McPherson
George McWhirter was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1939 and came to Canada via Spain in 1966. He taught high school in Port Alberni before going to UBC in 1968. He retired from the Creative Writing Department as a Professor Emeritus in 2005 to write and translate full-…
George
McWhirter
