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Scott, Andrea
Toronto
Andrea
Scott
Toronto
Andrea Scott is a professional actor, playwright & producer who, after completing a year in the Obsidian Theatre Playwright Unit, saw her play Eating Pomegranates Naked accepted into the SummerWorks Performance Festival where it won the RBC Arts Professional award, named…
Scrimger, Richard
Toronto
Richard
Scrimger
Toronto
Richard Scrimger has written for print media and television, but is best known for his 20+ books for adults and children. He’s won a few awards, been translated into a few more languages, and led workshops on several continents. Recent novels feature a hero who is obnoxious but…
Seeber, Barbara K.
St. Catharines
Barbara K.
Seeber
St. Catharines
My publications to date have been mainly academic, but I am branching out to creative non-fiction. At work on a memoir. 
Sellars, Bev
Selvadurai, Shyam
Shyam
Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, after the 1983 riots in Colombo. Selvadurai has studied creative writing and journalism, and has a B.F.A. from York University. He has written for television, and…
Senior, Olive
Service, Dawn
Sevestre, Paula
Ohsweken
Paula
Sevestre
Ohsweken
Paula
Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness Book: The False Healer: A Trilogy. As an Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness, Paula Sevestre has been led to explore and integrate Wholeness Medicine. This simply means, by…
Sewell, John
John
Sewell
John Sewell is a lawyer by training, but has spent most of his working life involved in different aspects of local politics: Toronto city councillor 1969-84, Mayor of Toronto 1978-80; community organizer and activist 1966-present; urban affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail…
Sgroi, Renée M.
Renée M.
Sgroi
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her debut poetry collection, life print, in points was published in the UK in 2020 by erbacce-press, and her second collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in the fall of 2024.…
Shaben, Carol
Vancouver
Carol
Shaben
Vancouver
Carol
Carol Shaben is an award-winning author and journalist. Her first book, Into the Abyss, was a national bestseller, selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and an Amazon.com Bestseller and Editor's Choice. Carol’s most…
Shaheen, Wali
Wali
Shaheen
Shaheen (also known in print as Wali Alam Shaheen, W. A. Shaheen, and occasionally by his former pen name Shaheen Ghazipuri) is the author of five collections of Urdu poetry, including Pushtara which was published in 2010. He has been extensively translated, and his poems have…
Shea, Theresa
Edmonton
Theresa
Shea
Edmonton
Theresa
Theresa Shea is a novelist and author of The Shade Tree (Fall 2021) and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). She lives in Edmonton.
Shearly, Elizabeth F.
Ottawa
Shelley, Casey
Saint John
Casey
Shelley
Saint John
Casey Shelley is a teacher and author from Saint John, New Brunswick. She has collected several degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Brunswick, a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of…
Shenher, Lorimer
Burnaby
Shepard, Caroline
Ottawa
Caroline
Shepard
Ottawa
'Off Centre' (Oberon 2004) Caroline Shepard’s debut collection of short fiction was short listed for the 2005 Danuta Gleed Award. Her first novel, 'Unlit Spaces' (Friesen Press, 2014) was nominated for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Caroline spent her childhood in…
Shepherd, Andrea
Montreal
Andrea
Shepherd
Montreal
Andrea
Born in Toronto and raised in Montreal, Andrea has written and danced all her life. She took her first ballet class at age 4, dabbled in everything from tap dancing to theatre to salsa, and finally fell head-over-stiletto-heels in love with Argentine tango in her late 20s. In…
Sheppard, Mary
Mary
Sheppard
Mary was born in Corner Brook, Nfld. She has spent more than 25 years in the media with Maclean's Magazine, CBC radio, the Women's Television Network and has taught journalism at Ryerson University. She became the executive producer of CBCNews.ca in 2003. Married with two…
Sher, Emil
Shields, Vanessa
Windsor
Vanessa
Shields
Windsor
Vanessa
Hello! Vanessa, here. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find my profile informative. Be sure to send me a message if you have any questions or if you're interested in working together! I teach full or half-day writing workshops in the elementary and secondary school system as…
Shiller, Ed
Shimotakahara, Leslie
Toronto
Leslie
Shimotakahara
Toronto
Leslie Shimotakahara's fourth novel, The Breakwater, was recently acquired for publication by Cormorant Books. Her third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Fiction Preview…
Shipley, Robert
Waterloo
Robert
Shipley
Waterloo
Robert J.M. Shipley grew up in southern Ontario. He studied at University of Western Ontario (BA 1971) and became an officer, first in the army then the navy. During his four years, he served on the prairies, both coasts and at sea. As a freelancer in the 1970s, he wrote for the…
Shipley, Jocelyn
Jocelyn
Shipley
Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair. Jocelyn…