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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 (…
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…
Waterloo
David
McPherson
George McWhirter is an award winning poet, novelist and translator born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland who came to Canada via Spain. He taught high school in Port Alberni before going to UBC in 1968. He retired from the Creative Writing Department as a Professor…
George
McWhirter
Halifax
Adele Megann is a Newfoundlander based in Halifax. Her short fiction has been published in Canadian and US periodicals and anthologies. She has won several awards–including the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award–and has given many readings and interviews. She has been told that her…
Halifax
Adele
Megann
MISSISSAUGA
Peacock in the Snow, Anubha’s debut novel, was an instant best-seller and launched in two countries- Canada and India. In Canada, it was published by Inanna Publications in September 2018 and in India, by Amaryllis Publications in January 2019 (Harper-Collins India…
MISSISSAUGA
Anubha
Mehta
Maria Meindl’s novel, The Work, was published by Stonehouse Publishing in Fall 2019. She is the author of Outside the Box from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History. Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many…
Maria
Meindl
Ridgetown
Toronto
Michael Melgaard is a Toronto-based author and editor. His debut story collection Pallbearing was published by House of Anansi in 2020. His stories have appeared in Joyland, Bad Nudes, Grain, and elsewhere. He has written essays and criticism for the National Post and Canadian…
Toronto
Michael
Melgaard
Sechelt
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, I went looking for adventure at the age of nineteen, headed north to Canada, where I found what I was looking for. For many years I lived off the grid in the back-country of British Columbia before moving to the city of Vancouver in…
Sechelt
Jane
Mellor
Enfield
I was born in Nova Scotia and spent several years travelling around the world, working in France, England, Turkey, and India, ending up in Israel where I spent ten years working as an Editorial Assistant in a publishing company. I returned to Canada to raise my children, and…
Enfield
Charlotte
Mendel
Mansons Landing
North Saanich
For more than three decades George worked as a national park warden in Canada, including work in six national parks on both east and west coasts, the North and the Rocky Mountains. Since retiring in 2012 George's passion for parks and protected areas formed the backdrop…
North Saanich
George
Mercer
Montreal
Anna is a former college professor of English Literature and English as a Second Language. She has been engaged in writing stories, highlighting intersections of culture, family and identity, for many years, and in retirement has now taken the time to edit and publish them…
Montreal
Anna
Mercuri Maiolo
COBBLE HILL
Combining his interests in writing and biology, Don Meredith has forged a successful career as an outdoor writer and communications consultant. Born in Los Angeles, California, he came to Alberta in 1970 to finish his graduate studies in wildlife biology. He then worked as a…
COBBLE HILL
Don
Meredith
Dartmouth
Joanne Merriam is a writer and poet. In 2001, she left her position as the Executive Assistant of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia to travel Canada by train, and then parts of the Northeastern and Southern United States. Her book of poetry, The Glaze from Breaking (Stride…
Dartmouth
Joanne
Merriam
Annapolis Royal
Mireille Messier is a Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and now Nova Scotia-based children’s author with a background in theatre and broadcasting. She has published over thirty picture books and chapter books, some in French, some in English. When she is not writing books, Mireille…
Annapolis Royal
Mireille
Messier
Whites Lake
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail is a multi-genre and multi-passionate author, coach, editor and consultant. She's probably best known for her inclusive aviation histories and picture books - but she's also working on memoir, book club fiction and her first contemporary romance.…
Whites Lake
Danielle
Metcalfe-Chenail
Gabriola
Suzanne Methot is the author of the award-winning non-fiction book Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing and the YA non-fiction book Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing. She is also co-…
Gabriola
Suzanne
Methot
New Dundee
Rich is the fingertips behind everything associated with Jaspa’s Journey. Born in Wales, he developed a fascination in geography, history and the environment at an early age, interests which culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a post-doc at the…
New Dundee
Rich
Meyrick
