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Toronto
Rosemary Sullivan is the author of sixteen books in the multiple genres of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. Her books include Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen which won a Governor General’s Award, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out,…
Toronto
Rosemary
Sullivan
Sault Ste. Marie
Michael Sullivan is an Associate Professor of International Relations at St. Mary's University and a Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Earned Citizenship and Born Innocent: Protecting the Dependents of Accused Caregivers,…
Sault Ste. Marie
Michael
Sullivan
Merna Summers was born in Alberta, and was a reporter and freelance journalist before turning to fiction. She has been active in The Writers' Union (as National Council member and second vice-president) and in the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She visited China in 1987 as a member…
Merna
Summers
Campbell River
Melanie Summers is a multi-award-winning, Amazon best-selling author of romantic comedies and women’s fiction. She’s written over thirty-five books for people who have 'had it up to here' with the real world. Her highly acclaimed Full Hearts Series was picked up by both…
Campbell River
Melanie
Summers
Montreal
Chanel Sutherland is a Vincentian Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. She is the author of the short story collection Layaway Child (House of Anansi Press, May 2026). Her work has been recognized with the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize, the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize…
Montreal
Chanel
Sutherland
Born in Hastings County, Hannah Brown currently lives in the Beach in Toronto. She has two degrees in film from York University and has won awards for screenwriting, including one from the NFB for How to Call Cows. After a happy sojourn teaching film and English at the college…
Helen
Sutherland-Brown
Yellowknife
Michelle Swallow is the author of The Mackenzie River Guide, which has helped numerous paddlers travel down Canada’s longest river. Her Substack newsletter, Biking to Bakeries, started as a collection of stories about her families bicycle trip across France and became a blog…
Yellowknife
Michelle
Swallow
Guelph
Mary Swan grew up in Southwestern Ontario and graduated from York University. She published her first short stories in the early 1970s and spent a number of years wandering and travelling, returning to settle in Guelph, Ontario in 1982. Mary worked for many years in the…
Guelph
Mary
Swan
Toronto
Michael Swan is an award winning journalist whose books include, Out of the Cold (Catholic Register Press), Written on My Heart (Novalis) and Here With Us (Novalis). Written on My Heart, a critical exploration of traditional Catholic prayers, was awarded a third prize in the…
Toronto
Michael
Swan
Susan Swan is the Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada for the 2007-2008 year.
Fiction by Susan Swan has been published in sixteen countries, including Canada, Spain, the U.S., Poland, Germany, the U.K. Australia, Italy and Holland. One of her novels, The Wives of Bath, was…
Susan
Swan
St. John's
Anna Swanson (she/her) is a queer writer and librarian. She is the author of The Garbage Poems (Brick Books, 2025), which won a 2026 Lambda Literary Award, was shortlisted Raymond Souster Award, and was longlisted for the Winterset Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her first book…
St. John's
Anna
Swanson
Winnipeg
Margaret Sweatman writes novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry and songs, and performs with jazz and new music ensembles. Her most recent novel is The Gunsmith's Daughter (2022).
Winnipeg
Margaret
Sweatman
Toronto
George Swede received his B.A.(Hons. Psych.) from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and his M.A. (Expm. Psych.) from Dalhousie University in 1965. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, periodicals and miscellaneous…
Toronto
George
Swede
Montreal
Alice Switocz Goldbloom straddles two worlds – the Polish immigrant family she was raised in and the Jewish one she married into – which has shaped her writing and understanding of identity, memory, and belonging. She lives in Montreal with her husband, where they…
Montreal
Alice
Switocz Goldbloom
Toronto
Shawn Syms has written for over 25 years for more than 50 publications. His work has been short-listed for the prestigious Journey Prize. Shawn wrote the short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar, a National Post pick for the Top Books of 2014, recently seized by the…
Toronto
Shawn
Syms
Ania Szado is the bestselling author of two novels—STUDIO SAINT-EX and BEGINNING OF WAS (Penguin Random House). Her writing has been published in Canada, the US, and Europe; shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and nominated for National Magazine Awards and the…
Ania
Szado
Jakub (Kuba) Szamalek is a Polish-Canadian author and video game writer. He was born in Poland, studied in the UK (at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar), and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote several best-selling and…
Jakub
Szamalek
Montreal
GILLIAN SZE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014), Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015), and Panicle (ECW Press, 2017), which were finalists for the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She…
Montreal
Gillian
Sze
