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Gatineau
Coltrane Seesequasis is a young fantasy writer of Indigenous heritage who grew up in Gatineau, Quebec. He first began his writing journey on long bus rides to school where he would alleviate the boredom by daydreaming of fantastical worlds, noble heroes, and unwavering villains…
Gatineau
Coltrane
Seesequasis
Laura Sergeant (she/her) spent her twenties playing electric guitar on North American stages and spent subsequent decades as a Social Work specialist in the field of child and youth mental health. She’s been published in Canadian and American literary journals. Her work has been…
Laura
Sergeant
Ohsweken
Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness
Book: The False Healer: A Trilogy.
As an Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness, Paula Sevestre has been led to explore and integrate Wholeness Medicine. This simply means, by…
Ohsweken
Paula
Sevestre
John Sewell is a lawyer by training, but has spent most of his working life involved in different aspects of local politics: Toronto city councillor 1969-84, Mayor of Toronto 1978-80; community organizer and activist 1966-present; urban affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail…
John
Sewell
Greater Toronto Area
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was on the 2024 CBC Books fall and November preview lists and in 2025 was shortlisted for an International Rubery Award. A…
Greater Toronto Area
Renée M.
Sgroi
Vancouver
Carol Shaben is an award-winning author and journalist. Her first book, Into the Abyss, was a national bestseller, selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and an Amazon.com Bestseller and Editor's Choice. Carol’s…
Vancouver
Carol
Shaben
Wali Alam Shaheen is considered "one of the top-ranking modern poets in the Urdu-speaking world," especially known for his "uncommon brilliance and linguistic innovation" (Ariel in Dawn, Karachi, April 12, 1984). He is the author of seven volumes of poetry: Rag-e-Saaz,…
Wali Alam
Shaheen
Ottawa
Beka Shane Denter is a Canadian features writer and author currently based in Denmark. Living abroad for more than twenty-five years has inspired her career. She has had wonderful opportunities to collaborate with several publications and platforms including CBC radio…
Ottawa
Beka
Shane Denter
Marysville
Edmonton
Theresa Shea is the author of three novels: Dog Days of Planet Earth (ECW, Fall 2026), The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions, 2021), and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). An alum of McGill, Queen's, and the University of Alberta, she…
Edmonton
Theresa
Shea
Ottawa
Saint John
Casey Shelley is an author based in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has collected several degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Brunswick, a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Education in…
Saint John
Casey
Shelley
Burnaby
Ottawa
'Off Centre' (Oberon 2004) Caroline Shepard’s debut collection of short fiction was short listed for the 2005 Danuta Gleed Award. Her first novel, 'Unlit Spaces' (Friesen Press, 2014) was nominated for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Caroline spent her childhood in…
Ottawa
Caroline
Shepard
Lunenburg
Norma Shephard is an established Canadian author, material culture historian, and curator with a thirty-year print history. She is the author of six commercial non-fiction volumes, including five internationally distributed titles with Schiffer Publishing, such as Darlings of…
Lunenburg
Norma
Shephard
Toronto
Ardra Shephard is a changemaker with a sharp pen and a killer wardrobe who has turned MS into a megaphone. She is the creator and host of AMI-TV’s award-winning lifestyle series Fashion Dis - the world’s first makeover show to centre disabled style-seekers and adaptive and…
Toronto
Ardra
Shephard
Mississauga
Victor Shepherd was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at the University of Toronto and at Aberdeen University. He was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1970 and is currently a Presbyterian minister. He has taught at Memorial University, McMaster and…
Mississauga
Victor
Shepherd
Mary was born in Corner Brook, Nfld. She has spent more than 25 years in the media with Maclean's Magazine, CBC radio, the Women's Television Network and has taught journalism at Ryerson University. She became the executive producer of CBCNews.ca in 2003. Married with two…
Mary
Sheppard
Windsor
Hello! Vanessa, here. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find my profile informative. Be sure to send me a message if you have any questions or if you're interested in working together! I teach full or half-day writing workshops in the elementary and secondary school system…
Windsor
Vanessa
Shields
Toronto
Leslie Shimotakahara is an award-winning author of three novels and a memoir, as well as numerous short fiction and essays. She won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize (2012) and has been shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her writing has appeared in the National Post,…
Toronto
Leslie
Shimotakahara
Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair. Jocelyn…
Jocelyn
Shipley
