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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
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
Hazelton
Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of thirteen books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada, and two novels. His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.…
Hazelton
Graeme
Pole
Calgary
C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the CBC Canada Reads finalist The Midnight Bargain and the Nebula-winning, USA Today bestseller Even Though I Knew The End.…
Calgary
C. L.
Polk
Victoria
Janet S. Pollock is a multi-genre writer and educator living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes fiction, poetry, essays, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Exploring topics such as the natural world, grief and loss, relationships, and…
Victoria
Janet
Pollock
Montréal
Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is from the North Shore region of Quebec, spent many years in Montreal, and now lives in Rimouski. She is a poet, a cultural mediator, and an emerging textile artist (embroidery, weaving loom). She published two adult poetry books, Brasser le varech (…
Montréal
Noémie
Pomerleau-Cloutier
Loretto
During his career in the dental industry, Peter Pontsa authored numerous techno-clinical articles published in various dental journals and served as an associate publisher for a denturist magazine.After retiring, Peter turned his focus to creative writing, completing an Advanced…
Loretto
Peter Thomas
Pontsa
Toronto
Anna Porter is the award-winning author of ten books, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently, Deceptions and In Other Words, How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time and Buying a Better World, George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, and five mystery novels,…
Toronto
Anna
Porter
Sidney, BC
Pamela Porter is the author of ten collections of poetry, two verse novels, and a novel and picture book for children. Her poetry collection, Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and her poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism…
Sidney, BC
Pamela
Porter
Orangeville
Author of Peggy Lee's Delicious Lips (Quattro Books), and numerous novels and books of poetry, Harry is the Poet Laureate of Dufferin County and host of The Sill podcast (www.thesillpodcast.com). He teaches creative writing in the Caledon area, and offers editing services…
Orangeville
Harry
Posner
Montréal
J. Jacob Potashnik spent much of his youth traveling and working in hotels and restaurants learning to cook but discovered he didn't have the back for it. Instead, Jacob studied communications and cinema and spent many years in film and television production. In 1996 Denys…
Montréal
Jacob
Potashnik
Perth
Tradeswoman, artist, writer, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly two-spirited Métis, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (Spring 2022)Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss (2009…
Perth
Lorrie
Potvin
Kitchener
Shantell (Shan) Powell is a two-spirit author, artist, and swamp hag who grew up in an apocalyptic cult while living off the land. Shan is the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellow for 2023, a fellow for the Roots Wounds Words Winter Retreat, and is a 2022graduate of the…
Kitchener
Shantell
Powell
Regina
Marie Powell's adventures in castle hopping across North Wales resulted in her young adult historical fantasy series, Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight and Water Sight (Wood Dragon, 2020). She is also the author of Garden Song (Lilac Arch 2026) among more than 40…
Regina
Marie
Powell
Ottawa and St. John's
Sara Power is a storyteller from Labrador and a former artillery officer in the Canadian Forces. Her stories have appeared in journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, and most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2024. Sara was a finalist for the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices…
Ottawa and St. John's
Sara
Power
Markhamville
Born 1949. Majored in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, N.Y.Moved to New Brunswick 1970. Married to sculptor Peter Powning. One son, Jacob M. Powning.Publications: Literary non-fiction: Home - Chronicle of a North Country Life, Shadow Child, Edge Seasons (Penguin…
Markhamville
Beth
Powning
Vancouver, BC
Leanne Prain's fourth book The Creative Instigator's Handbook, A DIY Guide to Creating Social Change Through Art was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2022.
Leanne co-authored the subversive knitting book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti with knitting…
Vancouver, BC
Leanne
Prain
St. John's
Katherine Prairie, a geologist and IT professional, stepped away from her career to follow her passion for writing. An avid traveller with an insatiable curiosity, you never know where you’ll find her next! But most days, she’s in Kingston, Canada quietly plotting murder and…
St. John's
Katerine
Prairie
Toronto
Pratheepa Thillainathan (Pseudonym: Kangambikai Pratheepathi) is an aspiring educator, editor, translator and a published Tamil writer. She came to the settler state Canada following her father’s political asylum in the 1990s. Her will to write comes from learning from the lived…
Toronto
Kangambikai
Pratheepathi
Whistler
Bronwyn holds a PhD in Performance, along with a MA and BFA in Applied Theatre. A ‘backcountry poet’, she is the author of knee deep in high water : riding the Muskwa-Kechika, expedition poems (Caitlin Press, 2023) along with the forthcoming hiking beyond : poems…
Whistler
Bronwyn
Preece
