Member Directory
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Ottawa
REGINA
Toronto
Daniel Scott Tysdal is the ReLit Award-winning author of three books of poetry, the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems, and the TEDx talk, “Everything You Need to Write a Poem (and How It Can Save a Life).” His most recent works include…
Toronto
Lampman
Toronto
Toronto
Nadia Devi Umadat is a Canadian social worker of Indo-Guyanese heritage, born in Toronto. She has a Master's Degree in Social Work and a Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies. As a Youth Mental Health Counsellor she supported newcomer and refugee families who had…
Steinbach
Steinbach
Andrew Unger is an award-winning novelist and satirist, best known as the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review (home of The Daily Bonnet). Since 2016, Andrew has written more than 3000 satirical articles, drawing the attention of The New Yorker and The New York…
Toronto
Petawawa
Clayton
Mission
Toronto
Toronto
Jacqueline Valencia is a Toronto-based writer and earned her Honours BA in English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of various essays and poetry books, including There Is No Escape Out of Time (Insomniac Press) and Lilith (Desert Pets Press, 2018). She is a…
Victoria
Victoria
W. D. Valgardson (Bill), born in Manitoba, raised in Gimli, a predominantly Icelandic immigrant community. Commercial fishing on Lake Winnipeg was the major form of employment. Earned a B.A. in Arts, 1961. Taught high school in Manitoba. Earned a B.Ed. Attended the U. of Iowa…
Loretto
Loretto
Angela van Breemen is a graduate of the University of Guelph with a degree in management economics and was a co-owner of a dental supply company. After the company was sold, she turned her focus to writing, music, and volunteering her time at Procyon Wildlife Rehabilitation and…
Elaine van der Geld is a writer whose short stories, essays, and poems regularly appear in online and print magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Normal School, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, and others. She has received notable mentions in Best…
Calgary
Ottawa, unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation
Ottawa, unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation
JEAN VAN LOON has published short prose, poetry, and reviews in Canadian literary magazines across the country. Her second poetry book, Nuclear Family, was published April 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press and won the 2023 Ottawa Book Award. Her first collection, Building…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Brent van Staalduinen is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, the short story collection CUT ROAD, and the forthcoming THE PEACE THIEVES and DO NOT COUNT THE DAYS. He is also an award-winning…
Sudbury
Montreal
Montreal
Carly is a Montreal-based prose writer, translator, and English teacher. In 2018, her short fiction was longlisted for Writer's Trust Journey Prize and won first place in the Humber Literary Review's Emerging Fiction Writers contest. Her writing has appeared…
Calgary
Calgary
Doreen Vanderstoop (she/her) is a Calgary-based writer, storyteller and musician. Her debut novel Watershed was published by Freehand Books in May 2020 and won the Book Publishers Association of Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2021. Her short fiction has also…
