Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
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Toronto
Toronto
Michelle Winters is a writer, painter, and translator born and raised in Saint John, NB. Her debut novel, I Am a Truck, was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the translator of Daniil and Vanya, and Kissing the Undertow (coming June 2024) by Marie-Hélène…
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St. Catharines
St. Catharines
Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters is an award-winning children’s author, playwright, performer, and academic scholar. Thirty-three of her picture or poetry books have been published or are in press. An experienced teacher of writing, Kari-Lynn has worked with students across Canada and the…
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Annapolis Royal
Annapolis Royal
David Wiseman lived in the UK for most of his life, but is now a resident of Nova Scotia. During his time in Canada he has, among other things, enjoyed running an art gallery and occasionally appearing as a background actor in movies. He writes long and short fiction, is an…
Collingwood
Collingwood
Susan Wismerwww.susanwismer.comsusanwismer@gmail.com(she/her)
Writing as a means of engaging with what matters has been important to me ever since I first learned to print my name. I am privileged at this time in my life to be able to turn to poetry and its particular power to…
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Vancouver
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Waterloo
Waterloo
Lori Wolf-Heffner is the author of the young adult series Between Worlds and the sweet romance series Love on Belmont. She was an inaugural member of the Canadian National Tap Team, wrote and submitted a Star Trek novel in her teens (it was rejected—she needed an agent), and…
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Edmonton
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CALGARY
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Vancouver
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Toronto
Toronto
Heather J. Wood was born and raised in Montreal and now makes her home in Toronto. She is the author of the coming of age novel Fortune Cookie, and of Roll With It, a teen-oriented novel about roller derby. She is also the World Fantasy Award nominated editor of the Gods, Memes…
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Westville
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Whistler
Whistler
Rebecca is an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Whistler, British Columbia. Her short fiction has been published in Room, The Antigonish Review and Pique Newsmagazine. She has made over 35 short films, which have broadcast on TV and been screened at festivals around…
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Iqaluit
Iqaluit
Patrick Woodcock is the author of 10 books of poetry and countless reviews. His work has been translated and published in 14 languages. Since travel is so essential to his work, Mr. Woodcock has lived and worked in such diverse countries as Iceland, Poland, Russia, Bosnia and…
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New Denver
New Denver
I am a writer, and former publishers' rep, bookseller, managing editor, publicist, creative writing teacher and most recently, a lighthouse keeper formerly based on the Lennard Island Lightstation near Tofino, BC from 2008-2021. I have written nine books for adults and children…
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Cobourg
Cobourg
Writer, retired teacher, and amateur dancer with MMM (Margaret Morris Method). Donna is available to visit libraries, bookstores and book clubs to discuss her novels, Isadora's Dance and The Age of Privilege, her latest novel. Her audience at the book launches showed plenty of…
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Toronto
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
I´m not a dead white guy. I´m a living old white female writer, a prolific unknown, have been for years. I love plays best but I have a large collection of OOP books, mostly first editions, with one or two exceptions, the major one being Beginnings: A Book for Widows which…
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When he was three, Tim ran away from home with a tea cozy on his head. That was in Cheshire, England. He ended up in Kitimat, B.C. He is not sure if these incidents are connected, but he believes fervently that if one is going to become a writer one should keep one's head warm.…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Lucy Yang (she/her) writes and teaches on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples in British Columbia. Her debut chapbook, Ju, is published in 2024. Her writing is featured in The New York Times, ARC Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere…