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Friedman, Kathy

Toronto

Kathy

Friedman

Toronto

Kathy Friedman studied creative writing at UBC and the University of Guelph. She has been a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, and the Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her writing…

Friesen, Bernice

Comox

Bernice

Friesen

Comox

BERNICE FRIESEN grew up in a family of dyslexics, inventors and other divergent minds. Though she began creative life as a visual artist, her books include The Seasons Are Horses, Sex, Death, and Naked Men, and her first novel, The Book of Beasts. It was shortlisted for the…

Friesen, Patrick

Victoria

Patrick

Friesen

Victoria

Patrick Friesen is a poet, playwright, essayist, lyricist and co-producer of text/music CDs and of text/music Videos. He lives in Victoria, BC on the unceded lands of the Lekwungen people. His most recent publications have been Reckoning (Anvil Press, 2023) and…

Fritze, Peter

Toronto

Peter

Fritze

Toronto

Peter Fritze practiced law as a solicitor in an Ontario government agency, partner in a major Toronto law firm and general counsel of a Canadian multinational. He’s now following his love of storytelling by writing suspense mysteries. In April 2014, he self-published The Case…

Frizzell, Colin

Toronto

Colin

Frizzell

Toronto

Colin Frizzell is an internationally published bestselling author and screenwriter. His screenplay, 'Lavender', a psychological thriller, was co-written and directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. His books (Chill, Just J)…

Ottawa

Ottawa

Mark Frutkin (1948, Cleveland, Ohio) has published nine books of fiction, three books of poetry and three works of nonfiction. His work has appeared in Canada, the U.S., England, Holland, India, Spain, Poland, Russia, South Korea and Turkey. He has written widely on art and…

Fuller, David

WINNIPEG

David

Fuller

WINNIPEG

David Jón Fuller grew up in Winnipeg, Man., and Edmonton, Alta., and also lived for two years in Iceland where he studied Icelandic language and literature at the University of Iceland. He holds a B.A. (Hon.) in Theatre from the University of Winnipeg. His short fiction has…

Furlong, Dayle

Toronto

Dayle

Furlong

Toronto

Dayle Furlong is the author of the novel Saltwater Cowboys (Dundurn Press), a 2015 Toronto Public Library Dewey Diva Pick, a collection of short-fiction Lake Effect & Other Stories (Cormorant Books) and a collection of poetry entitled Open Slowly (Tightrope Books). Her short…

Fyvie, Erica

Toronto

Erica

Fyvie

Toronto

Erica Fyvie is a writer and editor in Toronto. Her first book, Trash Revolution, published by Kids Can Press, was published in 2018, and her second, Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads, came out in 2021. The Sustainable School, also published by the good…

Gabriel, Maryanna

Southern Gulf Islands

Maryanna

Gabriel

Southern Gulf Islands

Maryanna Gabriel lives in the Southern Gulf Islands and is the author of Walking The Camino: On Earth As It Is, from Pottersfield Press. She has a Master’s in Creative Nonfiction from Dalhousie University and is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Creative Writing…

Gadsby, Alison

Tkaronto

Alison

Gadsby

Tkaronto

Alison Gadsby, a second-generation Canadian writer and literary chatterbox, currently living in a multigenerational home on Treaty 13 land in Toronto. Author of story collection Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026), other short fiction appears…

Gage, Marie

Minden

Marie

Gage

Minden

A passionate storyteller, Marie Gage is the author of emotionally rich historical fiction for adults and imaginative picture books for children. Her novels are inspired by real-life stories from her ancestors and the people she meets, bringing to life the resilience, romance,…

Gage, S.R. "Sandy"

Huntsville

S.R. "Sandy"

Gage

Huntsville

BA- McGill University, 1967 (editor-in-chief, McGill Daily '66-'67) M.Phil- Glasgow University, 1969

Gajdics, Peter

Vancouver

Peter

Gajdics

Vancouver

Peter Gajdics (pronounced “Guy-ditch”) is an award-winning writer whose essays, short memoir and poetry have appeared in Quillette, Huffington Post, X-tra, Maclean's, Advocate, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review / Worldwide, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Opium, among…

Gakunzi, Willy

Willy

Gakunzi

Willy Gakunzi is a devoted father to his beautiful daughters Kayla and Shayna. He has a remarkable life journey that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the high plateau of Mulenge in the South Kivu region. Raised in Rwanda, Willy is now based in Toronto, Canada,…

Galambos, Norma

Leask

Norma

Galambos

Leask

Norma Galambos is a freelance writer, blogger, chidren’s book author, podcast host and business owner from Leask, Saskatchewan. Ahelia Publishing, LLC and Lilac Arch Press published her first two children’s picture books in 2024. Thirteen of Norma’s Saskatchewan…

Gale, Peggy

Toronto

Peggy

Gale

Toronto

Winner of the 2006 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, Peggy Gale is an independent curator and writer whose texts on contemporary art, especially video and time-based contemporary works, have become artistic benchmarks. Born in Guyana in 1944, Gale studied at…

Gallander, Benj

Toronto

Benj

Gallander

Toronto

Benj Gallander ran away to work in the Middle East, France and Czechoslovakia, but amidst betwixt and between, wrote a best-seller and six plays and a poetry book which is a left-right hemisphere link-up and started the SummerWorks Theatre Festival and his works sold in Austria…

Gallant , Joanne

Halifax

Joanne

Gallant

Halifax

Joanne Gallant is a writer and nurse living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her debut book, A Womb in the Shape of a Heart (Nimbus Publishing), won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction. She is currently the President of the Board of Directors for…

Lorraine Gane was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. In the mid-seventies she graduated from Carleton University’s Honours Journalism Program, then worked as a full-time writer and editor for major Canadian newspapers and magazines until 1989, when she began…

Gane, David

Regina

David

Gane

Regina

David Gane is one half of the internationally award-winning writing team of Counios & Gane. Besides being a writer, David is an occasional scriptwriting teacher and stay-at-home dad. Counios & Gane are the proud recipients of the 2017 First Book Award with…

Garbutt, Loretta

Toronto

Loretta

Garbutt

Toronto

Loretta developed a real love for picture books while working as a storyteller, bookseller and reviewer at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore in Toronto. Very thrilled to be putting books into the hands of tomorrow’s big readers, she felt it was time to write a few stories of her own.…

Gardiner, Elee

Vancouver

Elee

Gardiner

Vancouver

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on…