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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’s…
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 Association's White…
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…
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 new…
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 Foreword Indies Awards for Nonfiction/Nature writing and…
Waterloo
Mariam
Pirbhai
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
Toronto
Jaclyn Piudik is the author of The Dark Oar [English translations of Paul Celan's French self-translations] (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017), Seduction: Out of Eden, written collaboratively with Janet R. Kirchheimer (Kelsay Books, 2022), and…
Toronto
Jaclyn
Piudik
Peterborough
Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Peterborough
Janette
Platana
Vancouver
Emily Pohl-Weary is the author of eight books, a play, and a girl pirate comic. Her latest young adult novel, How to Be Found, features a “grittier Nancy Drew” (Toronto Star) and “captures the angst and drama of teen life” (Zoomer). The Witch’s Circle, her 40-minute audio play,…
Vancouver
Emily
Pohl-Weary
Montreal
Monique Polak combines a busy life as a children's book author, freelance journalist and CEGEP teacher. She is the author of 29 books for young adults. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, renamed the QWF's…
Montreal
Monique
Polak
Victoria
Janet Pollock Millar is a writer, editor, and educator living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria, British Columbia. She has credentials from Simon Fraser University, McGill University, and the University of Winnipeg, and has taught writing and literature to adults. Janet writes…
Victoria
Janet
Pollock Millar
