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Vancouver
Monica Silvie practiced law for over fifteen years before returning to her earliest passion, writing for children. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Monica has an Advanced…
Vancouver
Monica
Silvie
Charlottetown
Bren Simmers is the author of four books of poetry, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn, 2010). Her first…
Charlottetown
Bren
Simmers
D'Escousse
Marjorie Simmins is the author of four non-fiction books: Coastal Lives (2014); Year of the Horse (2016); Memoir: Conversations and Craft (2020); and Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable (2021).
Simmins began her career as a freelance journalist…
D'Escousse
Marjorie
Simmins
Hamilton
I am a kindergarten teacher from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2020 I self-published my first children's picture book, Paislee and the Talking Tree (illustrated by Hamilton artist Rae Bates and designed by Greg Smith of Blind Pig Press).
Paislee and the Talking Tree is sold…
Hamilton
Bruce
Simpson
Toronto
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…
Toronto
Leanne Toshiko
Simpson
Antigonish
Anne Simpson lives in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia), where she writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Four of her ten books have been Globe & Mail Best Books. She has been awarded the Griffin Prize for poetry and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for fiction.…
Antigonish
Anne
Simpson
Stratford
Diane Sims has been a writer for more than 40 years. She worked in national print and broadcast media, was an editor at a publishing house and then corporate editor at a Crown corporation -- before ovarian cancer changed her life and writing. She is the author of six books, one…
Stratford
Diane
Sims
Ottawa
Michelle Sinclair worked for two decades on policy related to human rights. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland and the United States. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations from Spanish to English have appeared…
Ottawa
Michelle
Sinclair
Toronto
Sharon Singer is an independent scholar, researcher, and multi-disciplinary artist with a strong focus on creating awareness of historical injustices. Throughout her career, in roles as a journalist, lecturer, and editor, she has been a powerful positive force, contributing to a…
Toronto
Sharon
Singer
Ottawa
Margaret Singleton:
I was born in Toronto, Ontario, and at the age of seven and a half months was adopted away and grew up on farms in Soperton, Brockville and Athens, Ontario. My early education was in rural one room schools, until grade seven and…
Ottawa
Margaret
Singleton
Vancouver Island
Shanon Sinn is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat - a collection of eerie tales set in BC's Pacific Northwest. His writing and illustrations often focus on ghost…
Vancouver Island
Shanon
Sinn
Montréal
Cora Siré is a Montréal-based novelist, poet and short story writer. She is the author of five books. Her latest, Fear the Mirror (Véhicule Press, 2021), is a story collection blending memoir, fiction and essay. The novel, Behold Things Beautiful, was a finalist for…
Montréal
Cora
Siré
Oakville
Pat is a Metis writer and author of eight books for children. Her new picture book - “Lights Along the River” - was published by Orca Book Publishing in May 2024. Her new memoir, “Swiftly Flowing Waters” was also released by Plumleaf Press in spring 2024.…
Oakville
Pat Lamondin
Skene
Nanaimo
Patricia Jane Skidmore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent most of her childhood growing up in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. For her, being a daughter of a child migrant was a shameful and often worrying experience. She didn’t feel that she belonged. There…
Nanaimo
Patricia Jane
Skidmore
Brantford
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the author of 20+ books for young people. Her scrupulously researched historical fiction and narrative non-fiction focuses on refugees and war from a young person’s perspective. Her books have won many honours, but her favourites are the provincial…
Brantford
Marsha
Skrypuch
Cumberland
Traci Skuce is the author of the short story collection Hunger Moon, released in April 2020 by NeWest Press. Many of these stories first appeared in publications across North America, including Grain, New Ohio Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Hunger…
Cumberland
Traci
Skuce
Saskatoon
Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan. He is the author of thirty one novels for young readers including The Hunchback Assignments, which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for…
Saskatoon
Arthur
Slade
Montreal
Sivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, carte blanche, and collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec…
Montreal
Sivan
Slapak
Ian Slater was born in Australia in 1941 and worked in Canberra for the Navy, External Affairs, and the Joint Intelligence Bureau. He was a marine geology technician with the New Zealand and University of British Columbia Institutes of Oceanography. He earned a Ph.D. in…
Ian
Slater
Hamilton
I am a mother, daughter, sister, a palliative care doctor and now an author. I have always loved reading and would devour any books I could get my hands on as a teenager. When it came to school though I was a serious science nerd. As a grown-up even when I had almost no money I…
Hamilton
Marissa
Slaven
