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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
Port Alberni
Faith Richardson can’t remember a time when she was not fascinated by stories. A confirmed
‘bookaholic,’ early favorites were the Enid Blyten ‘Adventure’ series, the Nesbit stories, and later
the novels of Rosemary Sutcliff, Ursula Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and L. M.…
Port Alberni
Faith
Richardson (Fay S Lapka)
Toronto
Lisa Richter (she/her) is a poet, writer and educator. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017) and Nautilus and Bone (Frontenac House, 2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US), the…
Toronto
Lisa
Richter
Kelly-Anne Riess is an award-winning freelance journalist and poet who lives in Regina. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and other newspapers across the country. She has travelled across North America working on documentaries…
Kelly-Anne
Riess
Toronto
Brian Rigg is Jamaican born Canadian writer and agitator currently living in Toronto. His poems has recently been published in The Hawaii Review, Genre Urban Arts: House Vol.2 and A3 Review. His work has been anthologised in: Ma’ka: Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by…
Toronto
Brian
Rigg
Picton
A writer and documentary-maker, I live with my partner in rural eastern Ontario, Canada.
It’s a half-wild place, where I find the view clearer than in the surge and tumult of the mainstream.
From here I generate books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays…
Picton
Michael
Riordon
Vancouver
Scot Ritchie is an award winning author/illustrator who lives in Vancouver. He has written and illustrated numerous children's books, which have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Polish, French and Arabic. Scot has worked with the National Film Board of…
Vancouver
Scot
Ritchie
Wiarton
Whether spread across hundreds of pages of prose, or distilled into three verses and a chorus, Rob Ritchie is a storyteller. His four literary novels have been read and mused over by fiction aficionados and book clubs alike.
Rob is also keen to share his talents with other…
Wiarton
Rob
Ritchie
Erika Ritter was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto, specializing in drama. She lives mainly in Toronto, where she works as a playwright, radio dramatist, novelist, humourist, short fiction writer and radio…
Erika
Ritter
Calgary
Ken Rivard has lived in Calgary since 1976. Born in Montreal, he received his Masters Degree from McGill University. Aside from freelance writing, Ken currently works part-time as a university instructor. He has presented dozens of successful writing workshops at all levels in…
Calgary
Ken
Rivard
Toronto
Filipino Canadian writer Patria Rivera’s first poetry collection, Puti/White (Frontenac House Media, Calgary, Alberta, 2005), was shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
Rivera has also published three other books of poems: The Bride Anthology (…
Toronto
Patria
Rivera
Montreal
Raquel Rivera is a writer, artist, performer and author of books for children and teens. Based in Montreal since 1999, she’s published five books for young readers. Prior to this she lived and worked as a copywriter in Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, as well as…
Montreal
Raquel
Rivera
Vancouver
I can’t remember a time without writing. A lifetime ago, I kicked off a journalism career as a copy runner, getting the copy from the newsroom to paste-up in the basement of my local newspaper. Since then, I’ve worked as a writer at daily newspapers, magazines, and online…
Vancouver
Robin
Rivers
Whitehorse
Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon on the Takhini River.
Her poetry has been translated and published internationally and has been nominated for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Award and a National Magazine Award. She has received fellowships…
Whitehorse
Clea
Roberts
Portugal Cove-St. Philip's
Sheilah has been a store clerk, a Bollywood movie extra, an art school model, a chambermaid, a barmaid/tender, riding instructor, a theatre arts administrator, a library assistant, and a teacher of various subjects, primarily, music and English. Generally, fearless. Loves …
Portugal Cove-St. Philip's
sheilah
roberts lukins
Cobourg
Dilys Robertson is the author of many non-fiction books mostly about workplace health and safety. Born in England, she emigrated to Canada in 1976 with her family where she has worked in Ontario and Manitoba. She now lives in Cobourg Ontario. Awarded a BA degree in English and…
Cobourg
Dilys
Robertson
Winnipeg
Born in the UK and raised in northern British Columbia, Patricia Robertson has lived in Spain, London, Yukon, and elsewhere. Her third fiction collection, Hour of the Crab, was named co-winner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards. Her first…
Winnipeg
Patricia
Robertson
Haisla
Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was…
Haisla
Eden
Robinson
Springhill
Barbara Robinson is an author of contemporary and historical romance set against a backdrop of magical realism. She is known for world building that features rich and immersive detail supported by meticulous research and careful observation. She finds inspiration in myths,…
Springhill
Barbara
Robinson
Winnipeg
Jennifer Robinson lives on Treaty 1 land, territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dene and Metis nations. She is a psychotherapist and an emerging writer whose creative nonfiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Existere Magazine, Reckon Review and Prairie…
Winnipeg
Jennifer
Robinson
Chapleau
Mansel Robinson Stage plays have been professionally produced across the country. They include Muskeg & Money, Thea, Two Rooms, Bite the Hand, Picking Up Chekhov, Scorched Ice, Street Wheat, Spitting Slag, Ghost Trains, Downsizing Democracy, The Heart as It Lived, Collateral…
Chapleau
Mansel
Robinson
Toronto
Jennifer Robson is the international bestselling author of Somewhere in France, After the War is Over and Moonlight Over Paris. She holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from Saint Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar…
Toronto
Jennifer
Robson
Toronto
Lisa Rochon is a bestselling author and two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards. She writes non-fiction (Up North, Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land, Key Porter Books, 2005) and fiction (Tuscan Daughter, Harper Collins, 2021) as well as essays (AIR, Food, The…
Toronto
Lisa
Rochon
