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Bowes, Lisa

Lisa

Bowes

A trailblazer in Canadian broadcasting, Lisa Bowes is an award-winning sports journalist and education consultant based in Calgary, Alberta A Physical Education graduate from Western University, she is a passionate advocate for youth physical activity and reading…

Bowie, Chuck

Fredericton

Chuck

Bowie

Fredericton

Chuck Bowie graduated from the University of New Brunswick, in Canada, with a Bachelor's Degree in Science. He still lives on the East Coast of Canada, an hour east of Maine. His writing is influenced by the study of human nature, and how people behave, habits he picked up as…

Bowslaugh, Randi-Lee

Welland

Randi-Lee

Bowslaugh

Welland

Randi-Lee was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, and from a young age, she had a passion for helping others. She attended Niagara College and graduated at the top of her class from Community and Justice Services after completing her placement at a recovery…

Ingeborg Boyens has worked as a journalist for many years, writing for newspapers, magazines and television in Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. Her most recent position took her to CBC-TV's national current affairs program Country Canada in Winnipeg. Her work there as a…

Boyer, J. Patrick

Bracebridge and Toronto

J. Patrick

Boyer

Bracebridge and Toronto

J. Patrick Boyer, Q.C. is a veteran of the House of Commons, constitutional lawyer, political science professor, broadcast and print journalist, and author of more than twenty books on politics, ethics, law, history, governance, and biographies. Boyer joined…

Boylan, Crissy

Toronto

Boyle, Frances

Ottawa

Bradford-Scott, Leslie

ROSENEATH

Leslie

Bradford-Scott

ROSENEATH

Leslie Bradford-Scott is an award-winning writer, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of The Liar's Playbook, a memoir of family and crime.

Toronto

Toronto

A Toronto native, Mel Bradshaw (crimenovel.ca) holds degrees in philosophy from Oxford and U of T, where he was film editor of The Varsity. He has taught English in Canada and Southeast Asia and has published crime novels set in three different eras. Victim Impact features biker…

Braid, Kathleen

Victoria, BC

Kathleen

Braid

Victoria, BC

Kate Braid was born in Alberta, raised in Montreal, went to school in New Brunswick and now lives in British Columbia. For fifteen years she worked in construction as a labourer, apprentice, journey carpenter, contractor and trades instructor. She then taught creative writing (…

Stratford

Stratford

Marianne Brandis was born in the Netherlands in 1938, came to Canada at age eight, and lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario. She began writing in her teens, and continued while working as a copywriter at private radio stations and the CBC, and…

Brandt, Di

Winnipeg

Brandt

Winnipeg

Di Brandt's acclaimed poetry collections include (among others) questions i asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; Now You Care; Walking to Mojacar (with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar); Glitter & fall: Laozi's Dao De Jing, Transinhalations…

brannagan frederiksen, melanie

Winnipeg

melanie

brannagan frederiksen

Winnipeg

melanie brannagan frederiksen is a writer living in Winnipeg, MB, on Treaty One Territory. She is the author of the night, the knife, the river, which will be published by At Bay Press in fall 2026. She is the poetry columnist for The Winnipeg Free Press. Her poems…

Brar, Kuljinder

Abbotsford

Kuljinder

Brar

Abbotsford

Kuljinder is passionate about diverse representation in books and education. She is currently an elementary school teacher in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

Saskatoon

Saskatoon

Bev Brenna is the author of 18 books, 16 of them for young people, including The White Bicycle—winner of a Printz Honor and shortlisted for a 2013 Governor General's Award; Wild Orchid, listed on CBC's Young Adult Books That Make You Proud to Be Canadian; Sapphire the…

Brennan, Ann

Johnville

Ann

Brennan

Johnville

Ann Brennan holds a B. A., an MA., and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New Brunswick. She is one of the founders of the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick, recently retired, Honorary President. Brennan is a member of the Writers Union of Canada and the…

Brewer, Nicole

Kitchener

Nicole

Brewer

Kitchener

Nic Brewer is a queer writer and editor from Toronto. She writes fiction, mostly; her first novel, Suture, was published with Book*Hug in Fall 2021. She is the co-founder of Frond, an online literary journal for prose by LGBTQI2SA writers, and formerly co-managed the…

Brewster, Hugh

Toronto

Hugh

Brewster

Toronto

Hugh Brewster has written 15 books for young readers and adults beginning with Anastasia’s Album (1996) which won both the Silver Birch and Red Cedar Awards. On Juno Beach won the Information Book Award in 2005 and At Vimy Ridge was a Norma Fleck Award winner…

Bridgman, Rae

Winnipeg

Rae

Bridgman

Winnipeg

Rae St. Clair Bridgman is an award-winning Winnipeg author and illustrator of children’s books, including several picture books and the mythical MiddleGate Books. She has a knack for finding the magical and extraordinary in the ordinary, in between the cracks of reality. Rae is…