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Elcock, Michael

Victoria

Michael

Elcock

Victoria

Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, in the woods as a faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor. Along the way he earned a B.A. and M.Ed.…

Elder, R. Bruce

Toronto

R. Bruce

Elder

Toronto

R. Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, writer, and software developer. A prolific filmmaker (he has made over sixty hours of films), which have been screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Film Workshop, Berlin’s Kino Arsenal, Paris’s Centre Pompidou, the San…

Ellis, Deborah

Simcoe, ON

Deborah

Ellis

Simcoe, ON

Deb was born and raised in small town Ontario, she has a high school diploma, and took up writing because she was so anti-social. She's still ani-social, but now it's called 'artistic temperment'. She's an old anti-war activist, and gives lots of school talks on the arts and…

Ellis, Sarah

Sarah

Ellis

Sarah Ellis was born in Vancouver in 1952. She earned a B.A. at the University of British Columbia. in 1973, and her MLS in 1975, and an M.A. at Simmons College, Boston in 1980. She writes a column on Canadian children's books for Hornbook magazine, and works part-time as a…

Ells, Louise

Louise

Ells

Louise Ells grew up beside the Ottawa River, then combined random jobs (chef, caregiver, co-pilot on a submarine) with years of travel. The author of Notes Towards Recovery, a thematically-linked short story collection, Louise earned her PhD in Creative Writing from Anglia…

Elrick, Michelle

Halifax

Michelle

Elrick

Halifax

Michelle Elrick is the author of the books Then/Again and To Speak, and the chapbooks Photon Touch and remember the old log house. She is also an established poetry-film-maker, with recent releases "The __ Place," "Ditches" and "Trace" gaining audiences on CBC television,…

Elza, Daniela

Vancouver

Daniela

Elza

Vancouver

Daniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Poems from Daniela’s sixth collection SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) were longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Her debut essay collection "Is This an Illness…

Halifax, NS

Halifax, NS

Sarah Emsley’s debut novel, The Austens, brings to life the story of Jane Austen’s friendship with her sister-in-law Fanny Austen, who lived in Nova Scotia with her naval captain husband during the years when Jane was writing Pride and Prejudice and other novels that would…

English , Sharon

Urbania, Nova Scotia

Sharon

English

Urbania, Nova Scotia

Sharon English’s books include the novel Night in the World (May 2022), and two collections of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity. Zero Gravity was long-listed for the Giller Prize, short-listed for the ReLit Award, and was a Globe & Mail Best 100 title of…

English, John

KINGSTON

John

English

KINGSTON

Lt. Col.-Dr. John A. English retired from the Canadian army in 1993 with 37 years of service and regimental affiliation with the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, the Queen's Own Rifles, and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He also served on exchange with the Queen’s Own…

Victoria

Meet Jane Enright—she is an ordinary person, who has survived, and thrived after living through some extraordinary things, including an unforeseen traumatic brain injury in 2017 that almost left her speechless. This began an incredible transformational journey of resilience,…

Ens, Sarah

Winnipeg

Sarah

Ens

Winnipeg

Sarah Ens is a writer and editor based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Winner of The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and Room Magazine's Short Forms Contest, she has published poetry and non-fiction in numerous literary journals. Her…

Etobicoke

Etobicoke

Calyssa Erb is a queer, autistic Canadian writer of books for young readers. She has an Honors BA in English Language and Literature from Western University, and a Certificate in Children's Publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University. When not writing, she enjoys a tall mug…

Eriksson, Ann

Thetis Island

Ann

Eriksson

Thetis Island

See www.anneriksson.ca

Escott, Helen

St. John's

Helen

Escott

St. John's

Author Biography: Helen C. Escott is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian author and playwright. Before becoming an author, she had a ten-year career in radio and TV. In 1998 she joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as Senior Communication Strategist. She began writing…

Eslah, Kimia

Kimia

Eslah

Kimia Eslah is a feminist writer and a queer woman of colour. Her work has been featured on Watershed Writers, CBC Books, Ms. Magazine and The Miramichi Reader. Kimia is the author of Enough (2023), Sister Seen, Sister Heard (2022) and The Daughter Who Walked Away…

Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

Doris Etienne lives in Kitchener, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1987 with a BA in German and French. Her first young adult novel, The Jewels of Sofia Tate, was published by Dundurn Press in 2009.

Eugster, Rachel

Ottawa

Rachel

Eugster

Ottawa

Rachel Eugster's picture book The Pocket Mommy was released by Random House Canada (Tundra Books) on August 6, 2013.Rachel is also the author of Beans and Other Pulses, Fruits, Grains and Cereals, Seeds and Nuts, and Vegetables, published by Franklin…

Evans, Maureen

Quadra Island

Maureen

Evans

Quadra Island

Maureen Evans (she/they) grew up in Northern Canada. She resolved to writing her way out young, and has worked widely ever since — launching cookbook EAT TWEET in NYC and literary startup POETICA in London, writing poetry collection FATE & KNIVES in Belfast and publishing…

Evans, Lesley-Anne

Kelowna

Lesley-Anne

Evans

Kelowna

Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet currently living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. In 2024, she moved overseas to study poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, and graduated in 2025 with an MA in Poetry with Distinction. Mute Swan,…

Evans, Caitlin Nicole

Canada

Caitlin Nicole

Evans

Canada

Caitlin Nicole Evans is an author and illustrator of children's picture books. She grew up in Caledon, Ontario and currently divides her time between various Canadian towns and India's tropical coastline. An avid traveller, Caitlin spent over a decade roaming the world…