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Ottawa
An Ottawa-based writer, storyteller, and arts educator, Maria Saba was born and raised in Iran. She has published three books of nonfiction (in Farsi) and over a hundred articles, essays, interviews, and stories. "My First Friend", her short story published in Scoundrel Time,…
Ottawa
Maria
Sabaye Moghaddam
London
Judy-Ann Sadler was raised in a big, noisy family on a farm outside of London, Ontario. Ever since she can remember, she has loved to read, write and make things. She feels passionate about sharing stories and crafts with children. She knows that using your imagination and…
London
Judy-Ann
Sadler
Kingston
Jamal Saeed is a Syrian writer who, along with his family, escaped his country's ongoing conflict and emigrated to Canada in December 2016. The Suns' Crazy Girls, his first collection of Shorte stories was published in Arabic in 1993. Co-author of Yara’s Spring, Annick Press,…
Kingston
Jamal
Saeed
Toronto
AHMAD SAIDULLAH's Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories was published to critical acclaim in Canada and India in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and longlisted for the Crossword Vodafone Book Award for global South Asian fiction in 2010. In…
Toronto
Ahmad
Saidullah
Ottawa
Sonia Saikaley was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada to a big Lebanese family. The daughter of a shopkeeper, she had access to all the treats she wanted. Her first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. She has two poetry collections Turkish…
Ottawa
Sonia
Saikaley
Toronto
Dr. Kathleen Saint-Onge is a teacher and independent researcher living in the GTA. She holds an M.Ed. (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) from York University, and she is interested in some of the intersects between psychoanalysis and language, in particular through the work of Freud and…
Toronto
Kathleen
Saint-Onge
Vancouver: traditional/unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples
Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s ground-breaking poetry book about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, children of air india, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. Her book, Listening to the Bees, co-authored with Dr. Mark…
Vancouver: traditional/unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples
ReneeSarojini
Saklikar
Kingston
Julie Salverson is a playwright, librettist, scholar and non-fiction writer who teaches at Queen’s University's Dan School of Drama and Music, and at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published essays about the artist as witness, atomic culture, ethics and the…
Kingston
Julie
Salverson
Toronto
Eleanor Sam is a Toronto based novelist, born on a sugar plantation in Guyana, South America, with West and Central African ancestry. Her two novels are The Wisdom of Rain, 2nd edition, Isalea Publishing 2022 and Manor on the Viridian Sea, Isalea Publishing 2023. Eleanor has a B…
Toronto
Eleanor P.
Sam
Calgary
Nadine Sander-Green grew up in Kimberley, B.C. She has spent the past decade living and writing throughout British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Ontario. Nadine completed her MFA from the University of Guelph and now lives in Calgary. Her stories can be found in the Globe and…
Calgary
Nadine
Sander-Green
Oakville
Shelly discovered her Jewish heritage when she was 18, and didn’t know about her Latvian Jewish roots until just a few years ago, when she found old photos of her great-grandmother taken in Dvinsk, the Yiddish name for Daugavpils, Latvia. Astounded, she started researching the…
Oakville
Shelly
Sanders
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Barbadian parents in 1968, Robert Edison Sandiford is a short story writer, graphic novelist, novelist, freelance editor, and journalist. After obtaining a BA in English Literature from McGill University in 1990, he worked briefly as a clerk for a…
Robert Edison
Sandiford
Moncton
Janet Coulter Sanford enjoyed a 30-year career as a high school English teacher. An avid reader herself, she fostered a love of reading in many students. Throughout her career, she advocated for Canadian literature in the classroom and championed Canadian writers at every…
Moncton
Janet
Sanford
Victoria
Susan Sanford Blades (first name: Susan, last name: Sanford Blades) lives on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking people–the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations (Victoria, BC). Her debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a…
Victoria
Susan
Sanford Blades
Cambridge
Rosemary is versatile writer with a rich educational background, having studied in both Canada and Europe. Fluent in English and Italian, she began writing at a young age, creating stories and poems inspired by everyday experiences. Her ardor for the written word has remained…
Cambridge
Rosemary
Sangiorgio
Surrey
Harpreet Sekha is a Punjabi author of fiction and non-fiction based in Surrey, BC, Canada. He migrated to Canada with his parents in 1988. Holding a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and employed as a Computer Numerical Control Machinist/Programmer, Harpreet’s written work…
Surrey
Harpreet
Sara
Montreal
Robyn Sarah was born in New York City to Canadian parents and has lived for most of her life in Montreal. Following studies in music at the Conservatoire du Quebec, and philosophy and English at McGill University, she taught English for 20 years at Champlain College in St.…
Montreal
Robyn
Sarah
Brossard
Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Alejandro Saravia lives since 1986 in the province of Quebec.
Brossard
Alejandro
Saravia
Anne Gray lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
Anne
Sarndal
Winnipeg
Pete Sarsfield is from Nova Scotia, where he studied English (and baseball) at Acadia University in Wolfville, with minimal external validation. He then worked as a bartender and hospital orderly, before going to medical school at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and…
Winnipeg
Pete
Sarsfield
Vancouver
Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and writing on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations.
Her debut novel Atomweight, by Tidewater Press, tells the story of Aki, a good…
Vancouver
Emi
Sasagawa
John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Alberta, Manitoba and Ottawa. He graduated from McGill University with an Honours B.A. in 1969, and a Ph.D. from King's College in London in 1972. From 1972-75, he was the Director of an investment company…
John Ralston
Saul
Montreal
Paulette Marie Sauvé is a painter, tapestry weaver and a writer. Originally from North Bay, Ontario, she obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1992 at the Université du Québec. The MFA course included studies in northern Italy.She studied visual arts, architecture and…
Montreal
Paulette-Marie
Sauve
Cranbrook
Seven books available in print, eBook, and audiobook. Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide, Break Through to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2018 Edition, The Collaborative Podcast Series: Book 1: The Foundations For Collaboration, Book 2…
Cranbrook
David B.
Savage
Saskatoon
Candace Savage was born in the Peace River Country of northern Alberta and earned an Honours BA in English Literature from the University of Alberta. For the more than half a lifetime, however, she has lived and worked in Saskatchewan, with a home base in Saskatoon and a home-…
Saskatoon
Candace
Savage
