Sivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, carte blanche, and collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won…

I am a mother, daughter, sister, a palliative care doctor and now an author. I have always loved reading and would devour any books I could get my hands on as a teenager. When it came to school though I was a serious science nerd. As a grown-up even when I had almost no money I…

Hendrik Slegtenhorst has published fourteen books and over 140 works in established media. His interests are music, literature, and the arts; the natural environment and the urban landscape; and, the realization of community identity, aspirations, and needs. His work experience…

John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada.  He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines.  John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column for a group of…

First published story September 1972 in West Coast Review, which enriched me by $ 5. Books since include: Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra. Mansfield Press, 2012 Back Off, Assassin: New and Selected Poems. Mansfield Press, 2009 Leonel/Roque. Coteau Books, 1998 Translating Sleep…

Ron Smith is the author and editor of numerous books, including four books of poetry, the award-winning Elf the Eagle and The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke. An excerpt from the latter book was translated into eighteen languages by Reader’s Digest and published in over…

Nicole Smith is an archaeologist, educator, and author. Since 2000, archaeological research and fieldwork have taken her to Haida Gwaii, the Discovery Islands, western and southern Vancouver Island, Great Bear Rainforest, Northwest Territories, and Tierra del Fuego in…

Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text Teaching,…

Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.” His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…

Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown teaching creative writing in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC's Okanagan campus in BC's Interior. Smith’s memoir, My Body Is Yours,…

Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking…

Sadé Smith is a Canadian children’s book author of GRANNY'S KITCHEN (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2022) which was nominated for the Blue Spruce Award for the 2023 Forest of Reading and shortlisted for the 2023 Crystal Kite Award. She is of Jamaican descent and her books often…

Naava Smolash teaches in the English department at Douglas College and holds a PhD in English Literature from SFU. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in popular and academic publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian…

Lola Sneyd is a poet, short-story writer, and journalist who grew up in the west, but is now a Torontonian. A public-health nurse, she has written about and for all ages. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Canada, the U.S., England, and Australia. She has taught Creative…

Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…

A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2023. Her most recent book is Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future (University of…

K. Sohail was declared born in Pakistan in 1952. After graduating from medical school in Pakistan, he came to study psychiatry at Memorial University, Newfoundland in 1977. He has been working as a psychotherapist in Whitby, Ontario since 1984. His creative writings (poetry,…