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Toronto
Daniel Perry is the author of the novella Modern Folklore (Little Ghosts, 2024), and the short story collections Hamburger (Thistledown, 2016) and Nobody Looks That Young Here (Guernica, 2018). His fiction has been short-listed for the Carter V. Cooper Prize, and has appeared in…
Toronto
Daniel
Perry
London
I was born in Brampton, Ontario on February 1, 1948. When Prime Minister Diefenbaker destroyed the Canadian branch of AVRO by cancelling the Avro Arrow in 1959, my father moved his family to Massachusettes, where he found employment at RCA in Burlington. After…
London
Frank
Pesando
East York
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival…
East York
Charlie
Petch
Powell River
Born in the coastal BC town of Powell River, Sheila Peters moved inland to the mountains near Smithers in northwestern BC in 1977. She married and raised two sons while working as a journalist, weaver, college instructor, environmental and human rights activist.
Her work has…
Powell River
Sheila
Peters
TBA
Shelley Peterson was born in London, Ontario and studied theatre at Dalhousie University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Western University. She's worked as an actress in theatre, film and television since childhood. Currently she's working on a new novel, and raises and…
TBA
Shelley
Peterson
Nanaimo
Born in the UK, Lois Peterson was raised in England, at a Cornish boarding school, and in Iraq. She came to Vancouver in 1971 via Paris, London and New York. In BC she raised a daughter, Holly, and worked for 40 years in a public library.
Meanwhile, her short stories, articles…
Nanaimo
Lois
Peterson
Toronto
Rachel Phan was born and raised in a small town in Southern Ontario, where she was one of only two racialized people in her class. Seeking escapism from her provincial life, she discovered her love of the written word through daily visits to the library, contraband Harlequin…
Toronto
Rachel
Phan
Mont-Tremblant
Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe),B.A., M.F.A, is an editor, poet, conference speaker and author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their own crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada…
Mont-Tremblant
Deborah A.M.
Phillips
Ottawa
Dorothy Anne Phillips, graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta. A social psychologist, she retired from a research career in the federal civil service in 1996. Living in Ottawa, she took advantage of Library and Archives Canada to find records…
Ottawa
Dorothy
Phillips
Gabriola Island
Wendy Phillips is a writer of young adult novels in verse. Her first novel, Fishtailing, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's text in 2010. Her second novel, Baggage, was published in 2019, and was short-listed for the Ontario Library…
Gabriola Island
Wendy
Phillips
Yarmouth
Sandra Phinney is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose by-line and photos have appeared in over 70 publications. Her stories focus on everything from business to health, the environment, lifestyle and travel. She’s contributed to four travel guides including…
Yarmouth
Sandra
Phinney
Sable River
Caroline Pignat is the two-time Governor Generalʼs Award winning author of seven highly acclaimed novels. She writes contemporary YA, historical fiction, and free verse novels that dig into her characters through multiple forms and points of view. Back in high school, …
Caroline
Pignat
Mississauga
Canadian writer with Croatian heritage, Branko graduated radio-communications from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb with honors. His earliest stories appeared in the SF magazine SIRIUS when he was still a student. He was the owner of a small business, designing control…
Mississauga
Branko
Pihac
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Lisa Pike was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied in France, worked in Italy, and completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New Quarterly, Exile, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations:…
Lisa
Pike
Hamilton
Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is On Huron’s Shore (Demeter Press), five collections of poetry, one chapbook, Estrangement (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2017), and is the editor of a…
Hamilton
Marilyn Gear
Pilling
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff Pinkney is a settler who splits his time living in Baden, Ontario (the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenodaunee peoples) and in Haliburton, Ontario (the traditional territory collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations).
Jeff is a…
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff
Pinkney
Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here (The Word Works, 2016), Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets (Mawenzi House, 2019) and How Beautiful People Are (Gordon Hill Press, 2022). His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Guest 16. Ayaz’s…
Ayaz
Pirani
Waterloo
Mariam Pirbhai is a creative writer and academic. She is the author of a book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), Finalist for the 2024 Sarton Women's Book Award and Foreword Indies Awards for…
Waterloo
Mariam
Pirbhai
Alcove
Pearl Pirie is a poet living in rural Quebec just outside of Ottawa. She has 4 trade collections out and a couple dozen chapbooks. She is a haikuist and generalist poet. She has run a small press since 2011. Her poetry has been published since 1991. She has written full time…
Alcove
Pearl
Pirie
Rutherglen
Steve Pitt has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 1980 he won the top Periodical Distributors Author’s Award for humour with a groundhog recipe article that was published in…
Rutherglen
Steve
Pitt
