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Toronto
Richard Scrimger has written for print media and television, but is best known for his 20+ books for adults and children. He’s won a few awards, been translated into a few more languages, and led workshops on several continents. Recent novels feature a hero who is obnoxious but…
Toronto
Richard
Scrimger
St. Catharines
My publications to date have been mainly academic, but I am branching out to creative non-fiction. At work on a memoir.
St. Catharines
Barbara K.
Seeber
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
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, after the 1983 riots in Colombo. Selvadurai has studied creative writing and journalism, and has a B.F.A. from York University. He has written for television, and…
Shyam
Selvadurai
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 and fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was released November 2024, and was on the CBC Books fall and November preview lists. Renée offers writing workshops in the Amherst Artists…
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
Shaheen (also known in print as Wali Alam Shaheen, W. A. Shaheen, and occasionally by his former pen name Shaheen Ghazipuri) is the author of five collections of Urdu poetry, including Pushtara which was published in 2010. He has been extensively translated, and…
Wali
Shaheen
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). She has degrees from McGill, Queen's, and the University of…
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
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's fourth novel, The Breakwater, was recently acquired for publication by Cormorant Books. Her third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring…
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
