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Toronto
Janet Somerville taught English literature & creative writing for 25 years in Toronto. She is privileged to have ongoing access to Martha Gellhorn's restricted papers in Boston. She is currently working on a book about Morley Callaghan, Canada's first writer to make his…
Toronto
Janet
Somerville
Evelyn Sommers is a psychologist in private practice in Toronto and formerly in Vancouver, whose first book is a study of incarcerated women's views of the causes of their lawbreaking. Her most recent book, The Tyranny of Niceness: Unmasking the Need for Approval is an analysis…
Evelyn
Sommers
Madeline Sonik is a writer and anthologist whose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in literary journals internationally. Her first novel, Arms, and her collection of short fiction, Drying the Bones, were published by Nightwood Editions. Her children’s novel…
Madeline
Sonik
Vancouver
Marina Sonkina, a writer, educator, journalist and a former CBC broadcaster.
She was born in Moscow (the USSR) and was a lecturer in Humanities at the Moscow State University. A former CBC producer and broadcaster, she now divides her time between teaching at Simon Fraser…
Vancouver
Marina
Sonkina
Calgary
Anne Sorbie is a Scottish Canadian Writer.
Her fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews have been published by Inanna Publications, Thistledown Press, The University of Alberta Press, Frontenac House, and House of Blue Skies; in magazines and journals such as Alberta Views,…
Calgary
Anne
Sorbie
Winnipeg
Sue Sorensen was born in Saskatchewan and now lives in Winnipeg, where she is Professor of English at Canadian Mennonite University. Her poetry and fiction have been published in CV2, Room, Prairie Fire, Grain, and Wascana Review. Sue received her graduate education at UBC,…
Winnipeg
Sue
Sorensen
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Glen Sorestad is a well known poet who lives in Saskatoon. He is a Life Member of both the League of Canadian Poets and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. In November 2000 became the first provincially appointed Poet Laureate in Canada. Sorestad is a Member of the Order of Canada,…
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Glen
Sorestad
Gatineau
Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is an award-winning social worker, scholar, writer and public speaker. She is the author of the literary essay Le privilège de dénoncer - Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles, published by Les éditions du remue-ménage in Quebec and Europe…
Gatineau
Kharoll-Ann
Souffrant
Toronto
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Jamaica-Canadian, former nun, is an Ontario poet/educator with an interest in poetic inquiry. In 2009, she was a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. Her second collection, Travelling Light, Seraphim Editions (2006), was long-listed…
Toronto
Mary Lou
Soutar-Hynes
Emily Southwood is a memoirist, journalist, screenplay and fiction writer. She’s the author of the memoir Prude: lessons I learned when my fiancé filmed porn (Seal Press) and has written for Elle Canada, Time.com, and Huffington Post among others. Her current projects include…
Emily
Southwood
Born in Sheffield, England, David Spalding studied geology at the University of Sheffield and commenced a career in museum work which brought him to Alberta in 1967. Along with positions in museums, consulting work in heritage management and planning, and performance as a folk…
David
Spalding
Montreal
OLIVER DEAN SPENCER is an international crime fiction writer and artist who spends his time between Rome, Italy and Montreal, Canada.
To date, he’s published four novels, three as part of the James Cartwright PI series: The Spencer Files (Book 1), Call of the Nightingale (Book…
Montreal
Oliver Dean
Spencer
Vancouver
Kim Spencer graduated from the Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University, where she focused on creative nonfiction.
Kim’s debut novel Weird Rules to Follow received a Kirkus-starred review. It was named a USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book and a Bank Street College of…
Vancouver
Kim
Spencer
Vancouver
Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015), Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) and A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press 2024) along with 16 chapbooks, including Recto…
Vancouver
Kevin
Spenst
Corner Brook
Floyd Spracklin was born in Buchans eleven months after Newfoundland became Canada’s 10th Province,
He graduated from Memorial University of NL(1972) with a double major in English and History, and in 1995 earned an MEd from the University of New Brunswick. He taught school…
Corner Brook
Floyd
Spracklin
Owen Sound
Ron Srigley is a writer and academic. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, L’Obs, Canadian Dimension, Education Canada, and the MIT Technology Review, as well as in scholarly journals. He teaches philosophy and religious studies at Laurentian…
Owen Sound
Ron
Srigley
TORONTO
Eva Stachniak, born and raised in Wrocław, Poland, came to Canada in 1981 on scholarship to the Department of English, McGill University, in Montreal. In Poland she taught English literature at the University of Wroclaw. In Canada she has been a radio broadcaster and college…
TORONTO
Eva
Stachniak
Toronto
Marissa Stapley is the author of the critically acclaimed Globe and Mail bestselling novel Mating for Life, which was released in 2014 by Atria Books and Simon & Schuster Canada and reprinted in June 2016, and Things to Do When It's Raining, out in February 2018 with Graydon…
Toronto
Marissa
Stapley
Etobicoke
Lana Pesch’s story collection, Moving Parts, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Awards. As of January 2024, she has reclaimed her birth name, Lana Starchuck, post divorce. Her writing has appeared in Little Bird Stories: Volumes I…
Etobicoke
Lana
Starchuck
Hannah D. State is an award-winning Canadian author and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her debut novel, Journey to the Hopewell Star, was named “A Must-Have New Brunswick Book of 2020” by Atlantic Books Today, received the Literary Titan Gold Award, was a “RED RIBBON WINNER and…
Hannah D.
State
Port Hope
Ted Staunton has been publishing stories since writing a picture book called "Puddleman" for a university class way back in the '80s. Since then he's written over forty books of fiction and non-fiction for readers of middle-grade, YA, picture books, beginning novels and Hi-Lo. …
Port Hope
Ted
Staunton
Toronto
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto with his partner and their two children. His novella “The Man Who Went Down Under” won both the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023). He placed third in the Toronto…
Toronto
Alexis
Stefanovich-Thomson
