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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
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
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
Charlottetown
Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-four books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation and Word…
Charlottetown
J. J.
Steinfeld
Ottawa
Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He strums the guitar and pushes a pen. He writes fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry and songs. He’s been the lucky finalist of numerous prizes, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Rogers…
Ottawa
Andrew
Steinmetz
North Bay
Heather Stemp has a B.A. in English an M.Ed. in Special Education and 24 years of teaching experience in English, Physical Education, Cooperative Education, and Special Education at the secondary school level. For the last six years of her 30-year career, she taught Educational…
North Bay
Heather
Stemp
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the…
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Fred
Stenson
Neustadt
Over the past 40 years I’ve worked all sides of the publishing desk: journalist, ghost-writer, author, editor, publisher. I have four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication.
I co-edited with Susan MacGregor, Tesseracts Twenty-Two:…
Neustadt
Lorina
Stephens
Toronto
Writer, editor, director, designer Reva Stern was Artistic Director of a Toronto theatre for twenty years. She has been a Guest Director in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, Pasadena CA, New York City and Los Angeles and has collaborated with such notables as Isaac Bashevis Singer…
Toronto
Reva Leah
Stern
Grand Valley
Joshua is a writer, life coach and philanthropist who has a passion for helping youth navigate the turbulent waters of growing up. He has created a series of children's books dedicated to his efforts. The Tasha series follows a young German Shepherd experiencing all the…
Grand Valley
Joshua
Stern
