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mclennan, rob
Ottawa
rob
mclennan
Ottawa
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove…
McLeod, Heather
Thunder Bay
Heather
McLeod
Thunder Bay
Heather lives with her family on an old homestead on the edge of town overlooking Lake Superior. She studied music in University and paid for her education working as a busker and jazz singer. Upon graduation she launched her first career as a singer/songwriter. It kept her…
McLeod, Cynthia
Toronto
Cynthia
McLeod
Toronto
Cinders McLeod grew up in Toronto. She picked up the doublebass at eight, played in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, then moved to England where she studied art and film. After receiving her film degree in London, she became a newspaper, comic book, magazine and…
McLeod MacKnight, Wendy
McMaster, Margaret J.
Kingsville
Margaret J.
McMaster
Kingsville
Margaret J.
Margaret is a multimedia creator who writes novels, paints, produces vlogs for A Sweet Enough Life, and adorns journals with her beautiful artwork. This is what she calls retirement after working in education, business, and library services. She resides in a Southwestern…
McMaster, Susan
Ottawa
Susan
McMaster
Ottawa
"Susan McMaster's purview is the world entire, with all its mystery, heartbreak and magic" (Carolyn Smart, editor McGill-Queen's). Her poetry has been described as "muscular, candid, intimate yet universal... with an open, seemingly effortless control of her craft" (Heather…
McMillan, Amber
Amber
McMillan
Amber McMillan is the author of This Is a Stickup (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022), The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions, 2021), The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (Nightwood Editions, 2016), and We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). Her work has won a…
McNair, Christine
Ottawa
Christine
McNair
Ottawa
CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of Charm (Book*hug 2017, winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (Book*hug 2012, finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). Toxemia (…
McNicoll, Sylvia
Burlington, ON
Sylvia
McNicoll
Burlington, ON
Concordia graduate and former creative writing instructor at Sheridan College and Living Arts Centre, Sylvia McNicoll has written 40 internationally published novels for young audiences and given writing workshops and talks across Canada as well as in South Korea and Colombia.…
McPherson, David
Waterloo
David
McPherson
Waterloo
David
David McPherson is the author of 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts (2023); Massey Hall (2021) and the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History (2017). He is a frequent contributor to GRAMMY.com, the Globe and Mail, and SOCAN’s Words…
McRae, Laura
McRae, Bronwen
McWhirter, George
George
McWhirter
George McWhirter is an award winning poet, novelist and translator born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland who came to Canada via Spain. He taught high school in Port Alberni before going to UBC in 1968. He retired from the Creative Writing Department as a Professor…
Megann, Adele
Halifax
Adele
Megann
Halifax
Adele Megann is a Newfoundlander based in Halifax. Her short fiction has been published in Canadian and US periodicals and anthologies. She has won several awards–including the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award–and has given many readings and interviews. She has been told that her…
Mehlmann, Gloria
Mehta, Anubha
MISSISSAUGA
Anubha
Mehta
MISSISSAUGA
Peacock in the Snow, Anubha’s debut novel, was an instant best-seller and launched in two countries- Canada and India. In Canada, it was published by Inanna Publications in September 2018 and in India, by Amaryllis Publications in January 2019 (Harper-Collins India…
Meindl, Maria
Maria
Meindl
Maria Meindl’s novel, The Work, was published by Stonehouse Publishing in Fall 2019. She is the author of Outside the Box from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History. Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many…
Melanson, Arlene Evelyn
Ridgetown
Melgaard, Michael
Toronto
Michael
Melgaard
Toronto
Michael Melgaard is a Toronto-based author and editor. His debut story collection Pallbearing was published by House of Anansi in 2020. His stories have appeared in Joyland, Bad Nudes, Grain, and elsewhere. He has written essays and criticism for the National Post and Canadian…
Mellor, Jane
Sechelt
Jane
Mellor
Sechelt
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, I went looking for adventure at the age of nineteen, headed north to Canada, where I found what I was looking for. For many years I lived off the grid in the back-country of British Columbia before moving to the city of Vancouver in…
Mendel, Charlotte
Enfield
Charlotte
Mendel
Enfield
I was born in Nova Scotia and spent several years travelling around the world, working in France, England, Turkey, and India, ending up in Israel where I spent ten years working as an Editorial Assistant in a publishing company. I returned to Canada to raise my children, and…
Meneghetti, Monica
Mansons Landing
Menezes, Braz
Mercer, Rick
Mercer, George
North Saanich
George
Mercer
North Saanich
For more than three decades George worked as a national park warden in Canada, including work in six national parks on both east and west coasts, the North and the Rocky Mountains.  Since retiring in 2012 George's passion for parks and protected areas formed the backdrop…