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O'Connor, Dianne

O'Connor, Heather M.

Peterborough

Heather M.

O'Connor

Peterborough

HEATHER M. O’CONNOR is an award-winning children's author and freelance journalist based in Peterborough, Ontario. Her debut picture book FAST FRIENDS (Scholastic Canada) won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award and was the 2022 TD Grade One Book Giveaway title.…

Edmonton

Edmonton

Kate O’Gorman holds an MFA in Writing and has served as Prose Editor for Grain magazine and as Assistant Editor for Thistledown Press. Her work, which centers on the fragility of aging and the vulnerability of those on the margins, has appeared in PRISM international, The New…

O'Keeffe, Frank

Calgary

Frank

O'Keeffe

Calgary

Frank was born in Dublin, Ireland, and began his writing career there while in fourth grade. One day Frank’s regular teacher was ill, and his class was combined with another. In order to keep this large group of students quiet, the teacher offered a prize of sixpence for the…

O'Reilly, Gillian

Gillian

O'Reilly

Gillian O’Reilly has been interested in words ever since she ate the dust jacket off the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary when she was 11 months old. She is the author of two non-fiction books for young readers and is currently working on fiction and picture book projects…

O'Rourke, Nancy

Nancy

O'Rourke

Based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, Nancy O’Rourke is a writer of essays, memoirs, and poetry. With a PhD in sociology, specializing in human rights and social justice, she has written widely on issues affecting the rights of women and children. An emerging writer, she has won several…

O'Toole, Maxwell

St. Catherines

Maxwell

O'Toole

St. Catherines

Maxwell O’Toole compulsively creates. A disabled and trans writer, he is particularly inspired by his activist work, using art to connect with himself, others, and our world. He has pieces published/forthcoming with UNESCO Chair, Chartium, ANMLY, Freefall Magazine, Vellichor…

Ohi, Debbie

Toronto

Debbie

Ohi

Toronto

Debbie Ridpath Ohi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Where Are My Books?, I Want To Read All The Books, and Sam & Eva (Simon & Schuster). She has helped create over 30 books, most of which are for young people. Her illustrations appear in books by Judy…

Ohi, Ruth

Toronto

Ruth

Ohi

Toronto

Ruth Ohi is the illustrator of over 60 books, 23 of which she is also the author. Her latest are “Blanket” (Groundwood Books) and “Choose Kindness” (Scholastic Canada). Other author/illustrated books include “Scribble”, “No Help Wanted!” and the Fox and Squirrel Series (all…

Okihiro, Lara

Lara

Okihiro

Lara is a writer, researcher, and educator who grew up in a diverse, working-class neighbourhood in Toronto, close to her Japanese Canadian grandparents and often visiting her Anglo-Irish Canadian grandmother on her rural Ontario farm. Though she did not like reading as a kid,…

Okot Bitek, Otoniya Juliane

Kingston

Otoniya Juliane

Okot Bitek

Kingston

100 Days (University of Alberta Press 2016)A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022)Song & Dread (Talonbooks 2023)11 Metal Tongues (AGNES 2023)We, the Kindling (Alchemy, Penguin Random House 2025)

Okun Hill, Debbie

Debbie

Okun Hill

Debbie Okun Hill has been writing for over 35 years. She began her writing career as a journalist with a community newspaper in rural Manitoba then moved towards a profession in public relations with The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Lakehead University in…

Olding, Susan

Victoria

Susan

Olding

Victoria

Susan Olding is the author of Big Reader: Essays, shortlisted for the CAA Fred Kerner Award and Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Alberta Book Awards, and Pathologies: A Life in Essays, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to…

Oleksiw, Mark Paul

PIERREFONDS

Mark Paul

Oleksiw

PIERREFONDS

Mark Paul Oleksiw was born in the late 60s and remains a proud Montrealer. Mark is a graduate of McGill University, where he edited his faculty's offbeat, somewhat controversial, but always entertaining monthly publication. He has carved out a distinguished career in…

Olesen, Dave

Hoarfrost River

Dave

Olesen

Hoarfrost River

Born 1957 Illinois. Grew up in Crystal Lake Illinois. Attended University of Montana and Northland College. 1979 B.A. Humanities / Northern Studies. Pilot since 1982. Outward Bound Instructor 1979 - 1985. Immigrated to Canada 1987, Canadian Citizenship 1991. Married since…

Vancouver

Peter Oliva writes mostly fiction. To support that habit, he has worked as a cook's flunkie, a Santa Claus (in Japan), and a dog trainer. In 1994 he opened a bookstore, called Pages on Kensington, where he ran a reading series and hosted 600 author events in six years before…

Oliver, Alexandra

Burlington

Alexandra

Oliver

Burlington

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Let the Empire Down ( 2016), and Hail, the Invisible Watchman (2022…

Qualicum Beach

Qualicum Beach

George was co-founder of the magazine that is currently called “Recreational Flyer”. He was the main contributor of articles and fictional stories, as well as the Editor. While traveling on business during his career, George wrote numerous short stories and many filmscripts,…

Orchard, Treena

London

Treena

Orchard

London

Treena Orchard is an anthropologist, author, and activist who researches sexuality, gender, and the politics of health among marginalized groups and within the context of her own life. She is currently an Associate Professor & Undergraduate Chair in the School of Health…

Orford, Emily-Jane

North Gower

Emily-Jane

Orford

North Gower

Emily-Jane Hills Orford is a country writer, living just outside the tiny community of North Gower, Ontario, near the nation’s capital. With degrees in art history, music and Canadian studies, the retired music teacher enjoys the quiet nature of her country home and the…

Oron, Judie

Halifax

Judie

Oron

Halifax

Judie Oron is a Canadian/Israeli journalist who was born in Montreal, moved to Israel in 1967 and returned to Canada in 2004. She was a feature writer at ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ including a four year stint as a weekly columnist. Later, she directed the newspaper’s charitable Funds…