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Senior, Olive

Sergeant, Laura

Laura

Sergeant

Laura Sergeant (she/her) spent her twenties playing electric guitar on North American stages and spent subsequent decades as a Social Work specialist in the field of child and youth mental health. She’s been published in Canadian and American literary journals. Her work has been…

Sevestre, Paula

Ohsweken

Paula

Sevestre

Ohsweken

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.

Greater Toronto Area

Renée M.

Sgroi

Greater Toronto Area

Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was released November 2024, and was on the CBC Books fall and November preview lists. Renée offers writing workshops in the Amherst Artists…

Shaben, Carol

Vancouver

Carol

Shaben

Vancouver

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…

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…

Shane Denter, Beka

Ottawa

Beka

Shane Denter

Ottawa

Beka Shane Denter is a Canadian features writer and author currently based in Denmark. Living abroad for more than twenty-five years has inspired her career. She has had wonderful opportunities to collaborate with several publications and platforms including CBC radio…

Marysville

Edmonton

Edmonton

Theresa Shea is the author of three novels: Dog Days of Planet Earth (ECW, Fall 2026), The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions, 2021), and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). An alum of McGill, Queen's, and the University of Alberta, she…

Shearly, Elizabeth F.

Ottawa

Shelley, Casey

Saint John

Casey

Shelley

Saint John

Casey Shelley is an author based in 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 Education in…

Burnaby

Ottawa

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…

Shephard, Ardra

Toronto

Ardra

Shephard

Toronto

Ardra Shephard is a changemaker with a sharp pen and a killer wardrobe who has turned MS into a megaphone. She is the creator and host of AMI-TV’s award-winning lifestyle series Fashion Dis - the world’s first makeover show to centre disabled style-seekers and adaptive and…

Shepherd, Victor

Mississauga

Victor

Shepherd

Mississauga

Victor Shepherd was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at the University of Toronto and at Aberdeen University. He was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1970 and is currently a Presbyterian minister. He has taught at Memorial University, McMaster and…

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…

Windsor

Windsor

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…

Shiller, Ed

Shimotakahara, Leslie

Toronto

Leslie

Shimotakahara

Toronto

Leslie Shimotakahara is an award-winning author of three novels and a memoir, as well as numerous short fiction and essays. She won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize (2012) and has been shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her writing has appeared in the National Post,…

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,…

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…

Shirinian, Lorne

Toronto

Lorne

Shirinian

Toronto

I was born in Toronto in 1945. I completed an Honours BA in French language and literature at the University of Toronto, an MA in Comparative Literature at Carleton University and a PhD in Comparative Literature at l'Université de Montréal. I founded and edited Manna: a review…

Shirtliffe, Leanne