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Victoria
Julie Paul's second poetry collection, Whiny Baby, was published in April 2024 with MQUP. She has published three collections of short stories, The Jealousy Bone (2008), The Pull of the Moon (2014), which won the 2015 Victoria Book Prize, and Meteorites (2019), as well as…
Victoria
Julie
Paul
Toronto
Ele Pawelski has lived in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Bosnia, Kenya, Uzbekistan and Kosovo. She has climbed in the Himalayas, walked the Camino and hiked in Newfoundland. Now living in urban Toronto with her husband, she’s always planning for her next travel adventure. Her stories…
Toronto
Ele
Pawelski
Abbotsford
LOGHAN PAYLOR is a queer, trans author who lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their short fiction and essays have previously appeared in Room and Prairie Fire, among others. Paylor has a Master's in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and…
Abbotsford
Loghan
Paylor
Toronto
Jessica is a writer, poet, gardener and interdisciplinary artist. Her creative practice explores identity, wildness, art, grief, memory, love, survival and the natural world. She’s the recipient of a HA&L Short Works Prize in literary nonfiction and her poem…
Toronto
Jessica
Payne
New Westminster
Hilary Peach is a writer, recording artist, and producer of unusual art projects. For twenty years she also worked as a transient welder in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and power generating stations across Canada and the United States. In 2022 she released a memoir…
New Westminster
Hilary
Peach
Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton), a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece, and a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge,” produced by Louise…
Molly
Peacock
Carbonear
ANDREW PEACOCK was born in Toronto and raised in the town of Kapuskasing in northern Ontario. He worked in a mixed animal veterinary practice in rural Newfoundland from 1982 until 2010. His book Creatures of the Rock was long listed for the 2015 Leacock medal…
Carbonear
Andrew
Peacock
Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and acquired degrees in English, Librarianship and Children's Literature before she finally began writing childrens novels. She lives in Victoria, B.C. with her partner Katherine Farris and two lively dogs.
Kit
Pearson
North Vancouver
Frances Peck wrote fiction and poetry until her early twenties, when the realities of adulthood and rent steered her toward a career as a ghostwriter, editor and instructor.
As a professional wordsmith, Frances worked with clients and authors to make their material as polished…
North Vancouver
Frances
Peck
Toronto
Gatineau
Jon Peirce is a labour and social historian, essayist, playwright, fiction-writer and memoirist who lives and writes in Gatineau, Quebec. In 2011, he retired from an eleven-year career as a labour relations officer and researcher with the Professional Institute of the Public…
Gatineau
Jon
Peirce
Vancouver
Nasreen Pejvack is a published author, with her novel “Amity” published by Inanna Publications, on October 15th 2015.
Soon after, Amity was shortlisted for BC’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Book Prize.
Aside from her successful novel Amity, Nasreen has published…
Vancouver
Nasreen
Pejvack
Vancouver
Abby Pelaez writes about diaspora, anti-capitalism, and explorations of platonic and romantic love. She has read her work at the Vancouver Writer’s Festival, and excerpts from her in-progress food memoir are published in Room Magazine, Hungry Zine, and emerge22. She…
Vancouver
Abby
Pelaez
Ottawa
Matlock
Doreen Pendgracs is an award-winning Manitoba-based non-fiction freelance writer and author. Doreen is working on her fifth book--the second volume in the Chocolatour series. Doreen specializes in writing about chocolate travel, but also has a strong interest in culinary and…
Matlock
Doreen
Pendgracs
THUNDER BAY
Jean E. Pendziwol is the author of books for both adults and children, including the bestselling novel The Lightkeeper’s Daughters, translated and published in more than 20 countries around the world. Her children’s books include Skating Wild on an Inland Sea, (Illus. Todd…
THUNDER BAY
Jean E.
Pendziwol
Chapters:"Dotting the Ice," inThe Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, edited by Ken S. Coates - Carin Holyroyd, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019."Nation to Neighbour", in Canada's Arctic Agenda: Into the Vortex, Centre for International Governance Innovation, edited by…
Tony
Penikett
Sechelt
A.S. Penne is the author of the creative nonfiction memoir Old Stones (Touchwood Editions, Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria2002). Her writing has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the UK’s Ian St. James Award (1996, 1994), the Writers’…
Sechelt
A. S.
Penne
Bowen Island
Vancouver
Cristina is passionate about art and Italian culture. Born in Orsara di Puglia, she immigrated to Canada with her parents as a toddler. A Vancouver based visual artist, writer and pediatric diabetes educator, Cristina is also a member of the Association of…
Vancouver
Cristina
Pepe
