Member Directory
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Hamilton
Hamilton
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 29 books including Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime) His national bestselling novel…
Hamilton
London
London
Madeline Bassnett's first full-length collection, Under the Gamma Camera, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019, and was longlisted for the Royal City Literary Arts Society Annual Fred Cogswell Award in 2020. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Pilgrimage (Baseline, 2016…
Montreal
Airdrie
Airdrie
Diane Bator writes mystery, fantasy, and working on some YA novels. She has been a part of many anthologies and is the host of Escape With a Writer, a blog she uses to promote fellow authors of all genres. Diane is also an editor and Book Coach, as well as mentor to many authors.
Halifax
Sudbury
Sudbury
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. She is an alumna of Laurentian University (Sudbury, ON, Canada) and Nipissing University (North Bay, ON, Canada). During her teaching career in Sudbury, she…
Victoria
Kingston
Kingston
Jean Rae Baxter (née Fox) was born in Toronto but grew up in Hamilton. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and a B.Ed degree from Queen’s. She is an ex-copywriter and ex-teacher. Married to a Queen’s University English professor, she lived for…
Toronto
Surrey
Simcoe
Simcoe
David Richard Beasley lives in Simcoe Ontario. Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. He has written…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Raymond Beauchemin is the author of two traditionally published works of fiction, the novel "Everything I Own" (Toronto: Guernica 2011) and the novella collection "The Emptiest Quarter" (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2023). He is a cookbook author ("Salut: The Quebec…
Banff
Banff
Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published…
Toronto
Toronto
Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults. A Porcupine in a Pine Tree was the #1 Canadian National Bestseller and received the Libris Picture Book of the Year Award from the C.B.A; the sequel, Dashing through the Snow, was also…
Joliette
Dartmouth
Dartmouth
While he has worked as a paramedic and as a captain with the fire service, Sean Paul Bedell has been writing and publishing for more than 30 years. He lives in Dartmouth with his wife Lisa, and Somewhere There’s Music is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @seanpaulbedell or…
OTTAWA
Vancouver
Vancouver
Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author based in Vancouver. His first book, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization was a finalist for a PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and a California Book Award. You can learn the basic ideas behind the…
Ottawa
