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Ottawa
Ottawa
  Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story…
Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
Diana Hayes was born in Toronto in 1955 and has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia and Victoria, receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She was Poetry Editor for Prism international while at U.B.C. from ’80…
White Rock
White Rock
Elaine Hayes studied creative writing at the University of Calgary (2007; B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing) and the Humber School for Writers. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including (M)othering…
BURNABY
BURNABY
Diane has been writing professionally for over 30 years. An award-winning freelance writer and the author of an award-winning novel series, she was the speechwriter for international human rights lawyer Stephen Toope during his tenure as president of the University of British…
Calgary
Calgary
Elizabeth’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Prism, Room and many anthologies, most recently This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press), Shy: an anthology, Waiting and You…
Toronto
Toronto
Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to entering medical school, he studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and…
LASALLE
LASALLE
Christine lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family. She is an avid reader, but her true love is writing. She enjoys literary, classics, horror, and contemporary fiction. Her retirement from the world of accounting and business management, turned into a full-time writing…
Victoria
Victoria
Kath Healing (they/them) is a poet based in Victoria, BC. Their work appears in PRISM international, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, Pulp Literature, and The Malahat Review, among others. Their poetry explores queerness and disability through the body as…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Kate Heartfield is the author of several historical fantasy novels published by HarperCollins, including Mercutio (2026), The Tapestry of Time (2024), and the Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book (2022), about Marie Antoinette and her sister…
Halifax
Halifax
Michelle Hébert has turned the most difficult times in her life into stories that challenge, inspire, and remind us of the shared humanity that makes life sparkle. She has an MFA in creative non-fiction from the University of King’s College, and degrees and experience in…
Cobble Hill
Toronto
Toronto
Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist with an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King's College. Her articles appear in publications such as CIM Magazine, …
Toronto
Toronto
Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in…
Toronto
Toronto
Sydney Hegele (formally Sydney Warner Brooman) is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021). They are the winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their poetry chapbook The Last Thing I Will See Before I…
Calgary
Calgary
Betty Jane Hegerat is a Calgary writer, social worker, and teacher. She has studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Sage Hill, the Banff Centre, and completed a MFA Creative Writing through UBC's low residency program in 2008.
Edmonton
Edmonton
Jaymie Heilman grew up in Alberta, Canada, and lived in Wisconsin, Peru, and Nova Scotia before circling back home to teach Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Alberta. She has published two history books with Stanford and Duke University Press and three…
Toronto
Toronto
Jason Armstrong is the author of the world-wide selling book Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator  http://solosexbook.com/  Solosexuals, in brief, are those for whom masturbation is their preferred sexual outlet.   Jason Armstrong is the writer of the blog…
Sudbury
Sudbury
Born in a meteor crater, Matthew has published two novels, The City Still Breathing (Coach House Books), and One Soft Infested Summer (Latitude 46), and a play Black Dog: 4 vs the wrld (Playwrights Canada Press). His short fiction has appeared in many publications, winning…
Grey Highlands
Grey Highlands
Brian Henderson is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards originally published by UnderWhich now available on UbuWeb's visual poetry site: http://www.ubu.com/vp/Henderson.html. His latest volume is…
Kingston
Kingston
Patricia Henderson is the author of the non-fiction book INSIDE KINGSTON – Celebrating People’s Lives & Passions. She is the co-author of three plays for children, editor of four books, writer of short stories and owner of the writing company Writing By Design. Her…
Montreal West
Montreal West
Keith Henderson has published six novels with DC Books, The Restoration (1992), The Beekeeper (1990), The Roof Walkers (2013), Acqua Sacra (2016), Sasquatch and the Green Sash (2018), and Mont Babel (2020), political essays from when he was Quebec correspondent for the Financial…