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Squamish
Jan Redford was raised in Yukon, NWT, and the Ottawa Valley, but after high school, she bolted for the Rockies to climb, kayak and ski. She financed her fun by waitressing, tree planting, ski patrolling, and instructing climbing. After her two kids were born, she went to the…
Squamish
Jan
Redford
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Toronto
Michael Redhill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966, but has lived in Toronto most of his life. Educated in the United States and Canada, he took seven years to complete a three-year BA in acting, film, and finally, English. Since 1988, he has published five collections of…
Toronto
Michael
Redhill
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407 - 1083 Tillicum Road, Victoria
After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Carolyn Redl taught literature and creative writing for over thirty years. During that time, she also wrote and published essays, short stories, poems, travel articles, and book reviews in publications as diverse as The…
407 - 1083 Tillicum Road, Victoria
Carolyn
Redl
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Hamilton
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Toronto
Barbara Reid is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen award winning picture books, and the illustrator of over twenty five including The Party, The Subway Mouse, Perfect Snow, Picture a Tree and Picture the Sky. Awards for her unique plasticine artwork include the…
Toronto
Barbara
Reid
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Born in Toronto, and brought up on a farm near Kleinburg, Ontario, Gilbert Reid has an honors B.A. from the University of Toronto, a M.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. from Cambridge University (English Literature), and has studied at Science Po in…
Gilbert
Reid
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Calgary
Jim Reily is a storyteller, musician, and educator. He is the author of four books: the fictional Bass Player, along with biographies of three of today’s most influential and impactful musical instrument designers, StickMan: The Story of Emmett Chapman & the Instrument He…
Calgary
Jim
Reilly
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Ottawa
They say that Chile is a country of poets and that all its inhabitants want to be writers. I was born in Chile but left the country in 1975. I lived in Venezuela for five years and then came to Canada in 1980. It is in this country that I published my first novel. From that…
Ottawa
Camila
Reimers
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Calgary
Calgarian Faye Reineberg Holt loves word and history. As a writer, researcher, and editor, she is fascinated by the stories and history of Western Canada, but writing remains her first love. She has published 13 books of non-fiction, co-authored a travel book, written a poetry…
Calgary
Faye
Reineberg Holt
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Edmonton
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta where she examines ritual and liturgical change during the English Reformation through the lenses of gender and materiality. Autumn has many secondary research interests, especially the…
Edmonton
Autumn
Reinhardt-Simpson
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Prince George
Al Rempel’s books of poetry are Undiscovered Country (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019), This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For (Caitlin Press, 2013), Understories (Caitlin Press, 2010) and two chapbooks: Four Neat Holes (Leaf Press, 2016) and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick…
Prince George
Al
Rempel
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Toronto
Colleen René is a Nova Scotia-raised Toronto-based writer. Her work has appeared in journals across Canada and her short story All That’s Left won Dalhousie University’s James DeMille Short Story Prize in 2016. Her short story Growing Pains was long-listed for the CBC Short…
Toronto
Colleen
René
Napanee
II was born in Smith Falls Ontario. When I actually had to work for a living it was for Northern Telecom and Nortel for 30 years, retiring in 2002. I am a Native Algonquin person, belong to the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. My early years were spent in Wilton an Odessa Ontario…
Napanee
Richard
Revelle
Clarington
I write children's books, memoirs, short stories and the occasional poem.
Some of my books have won awards. Most have done well in the marketplace.
I'm also an avid blogger.
Yet, I'm still learning about how to tell compelling stories that touch the reader's heart and mind…
Clarington
Cynthia
Reyes
Lisa Reynolds is an internationally published writer of poetry and short stories with translations in Farsi, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish. Her poetry has been featured in art/poetry exhibits in Canada and the USA. She is the 2023 recipient of The Ontario Poetry Society's Ted…
Lisa
Reynolds
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GUELPH
Greg Rhyno’s first novel To Me You Seem Giant was nominated for a ReLit Award and an Alberta Book Publishing Award. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals including Hobart, Riddle Fence, PRISM International, and The Quarantine Review. He completed an MFA at the…
GUELPH
Greg
Rhyno
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Born in Leamington, Ontario to parents from the Molise region of Italy, Nino Ricci completed studies at York University in Toronto, at Concordia University in Montreal, and at the University of Florence, and has taught extensively both in Canada and abroad, including two years…
Nino
Ricci
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Waterloo
Vanessa is a word sorceress — an SFF author and editor — who loves a good story. She’s a NaNoWriMo veteran, a Halloween enthusiast, and a bookish geek who loves dragons, dogs, astronomy, travel and good tequila.
Waterloo
Vanessa
Ricci-Thode
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Toronto
Giovanna Riccio is a University of Toronto graduate with a major in philosophy. She is the author of one chapbook and two poetry collections. Her poems, essays and book reviews have appeared in national and international anthologies and journals including Exile Quarterly, CV2,…
Toronto
Giovanna
Riccio
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Sudbury
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His…
Sudbury
Waubgeshig
Rice
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Regina
Bruce Rice is a previous Saskatchewan Poet Laureate (2019-2021), an editor and essayist. Born in northern BC, he grew up in Prince Albert and returned to the province after ten years in the Maritimes. Bruce holds a B.A. from Saint Thomas and a MSW degree from Dalhousie…
Regina
Bruce
Rice
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Raquel Rich loves to travel, suntan, walk her dog, and is obsessed with all things Beauty & the Beast. She despises cold weather, balloons, and writing about herself in the third person but noticed all the real authors do that. Born and raised in Canada to Brazilian parents…
Raquel
Rich
Saskatoon
Harriet Richards’ creative reality was as a visual artist until an obstinate painting insisted on becoming a short story. Since then, she’s published three books of fiction. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio, and published in literary journals in Canada and Wales; and her…
Saskatoon
Harriet
Richards