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Dundas ON
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Maggie de Vries is a writer for children and adults and a Lecturer in UBC's Creative Writing Program. She travels extensively, speaking at conferences and doing workshops and author readings for children and adults. Maggie was children's book editor at Orca Book Publishers from…
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Etobicoke, Ontario
Etobicoke, Ontario
Olga M. Dey-Bergmoser Thompson was born in Holland, grew up in Germany and was a voracious reader with a keen interest in poetry, swimming, and languages. Trained as a multilingual translator, she did a lot of travelling and, in 1963, settled with her family in Toronto.…
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Traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations || Vancouver ||
Traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations || Vancouver ||
Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal (she/her) is a critical race feminist, writer, former lawyer, educator and facilitator who grew up on the traditional, present and future territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations (also known…
Toronto
Toronto
ANGEL DI ZHANG is a Canadian author. She was educated in the joint BA-MIA program at Columbia University, and is a painter and an internationally exhibited fine art photographer.
Her debut novel THE LIGHT OF ETERNAL SPRING published with Random House Canada on April 25, 2023.…
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
Doug Diaczuk is an author, journalist, and photographer living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He has a master’s degree in English Literature from Lakehead University. His work has been published in Geist, Quill and Quire, and Subterrain. In 2015, Doug won the 38thannual 3-Day Novel…
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Victoria
Victoria
Zoe Dickinson is a poet and bookseller from Victoria, British Columbia. Her poetry is rooted in the Pacific coastline, with a focus on local ecology and human relationships with nature. She has been published in literary journals such as Existere, Prairie Fire, and Contemporary…
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Toronto
Toronto
Mary Lou Dickinson's fiction has been published in the University of Windsor Review, Descant, Waves, Grain, Northern Journey, Impulse, Writ, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Woman Studies and broadcast on CBC Radio. Her writing was also included in the anthology, We Who Can Fly: Poems,…
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Toronto
Toronto
Alessia Dickson is the award winning author of The Crystal Chronicles series for teens. Alessia is a youth empowerment advocate working to inspire students to find their creative voice and reach their full potential. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she she frequents cozy…
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Scarborough
Scarborough
Barbara Dickson is a sought-after professionally-trained public speaker, local historian, and author in both fiction and non-fiction. She has been entertaining and educating audiences for over twenty years. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis…
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Sauble Beach
Sauble Beach
Rebecca Diem writes hopeful speculative fiction and poetry. Her work includes contributions to Write magazine and Tor.com, and the steampunk novella series Tales of the Captain Duke. She is the host of Read The North, a radio/podcast miniseries on the history of CanLit as told…
London
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Victoria
Victoria
JoAnn Dionne holds an Honours BA in English from McGill University and an MFA in Writing from the University of Victoria. Her first book, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China, was a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and short-listed for the George…
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Montreal
Montreal
Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Family Way (2021), shortlisted for the F.G Bressani Literary Prize, and The Geography of Pluto (2014). His essays and short stories have appeared in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far), Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer…
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often in transit
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Toronto
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West Vancouver
West Vancouver
Sandra Djwa, FRSC, CM., is a writer, critic and cultural biographer. A Newfoundlander, she completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968 to 2005 when she retired as J.S.…
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Vancouver
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Sturgeon Falls
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Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Jillian delights in discovering stories in the everyday. She’s gathered tales through various unofficial and official roles. Jillian has lived in Alberta and Quebec and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with her incredible husband, their two inspiring children and a cuddly…