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Chan, Gillian
Gillian
Chan
Gillian Chan was born in England and came to Canada in 1990. A graduate of the University of East Anglia, she taught in high schools for ten years and wrote in secret. Her move to Canada gave her the impetus to write full-time.
Chan, Marty
Edmonton
Marty
Chan
Edmonton
Marty Chan writes books for kids and plays for adults. His hit comedy play Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl toured across Canada and finished with an Off Broadway production in 2004. His middle-grade novels have won over reluctant readers. The Mystery of the  Frozen Brains…
Chang, Janie
Vancouver
Chang, Su
Su
Chang
Su Chang is a fiction writer with a debut novel (The Immortal Woman) forthcoming from House of Anansi in March 2025. An earlier draft was long-listed for the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest, and a semifinalist at SheWritesPress' STEP Prize. It has received praise from…
Chang-Richardson, Ellen
Ottawa
Ellen
Chang-Richardson
Ottawa
East Asian femme-presenting writer looking at camera and smiling with shoulder length brown hair with blonde tips and white contemporary-style glasses, wearing a white shirt with large gold pineapple print on a sky blue background.
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain, third coast magazine, Vallum Contemporary, Watch Your Head and more. The co-founder of Riverbed…
Chapman, Susan
Toronto
Susan
Chapman
Toronto
Susan Chapman has been a teacher-librarian and a primary teacher in Toronto and in Markham, Ontario. She has also taught teacher-librarians in East Africa, and worked for a summer in the library in Harrods Dept. Store in London, England. She was inspired to write TOO MUCH NOISE…
Chapman, Brenda
Chariandy, David
Charles, Norma
Vancouver
Norma
Charles
Vancouver
Norma
Norma Charles was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba and moved to the west coast as a young child. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, she taught school for several years, then "retired" to have four children. It was then that she began to write books for…
Charles, Ruthie
Charles, Veronika
Toronto, ON
Veronika
Charles
Toronto, ON
Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…
Charleson, Karen
TOFINO
Karen
Charleson
TOFINO
Karen Charleson is a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and an educator. Her first novel Through Different Eyes was published by Signature Editions in 2017.  Karen is a member, through marriage, of the Hesquiaht First Nation and the House of Kinquashtakumtlth. She lives in…
Chaudhuri, Prad
Chauncey, Sarah
Chayko, J.G.
Vancouver
J.G.
Chayko
Vancouver
J.G. Chayko is a writer from Vancouver B.C. who has published poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She is a contributing writer to three anthologies and has several short works in print and online. Her work has appeared in Event Magazine, Canadian Stories, Hastings…
Cheinis, Efim
Chen, Leilei 莫译
Edmonton
Chiang, Sylv
Pickering
Sylv
Chiang
Pickering
SYLV CHIANG (she/her) is a middle-grade teacher by day and a children’s book author by night. She wrote her middle-grade series, Cross Ups, for kids who love video games. Still My Tessa is Sylv’s first picture book and the inspiration for the story came from within her own…
Childs, Lucian
Toronto
Lucian
Childs
Toronto
Lucian
LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut novel, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist, Building…
Chislett, Nancy
Winnipeg
Nancy
Chislett
Winnipeg
Nancy
Nancy Chislett is an avid traveler, having visited almost 50 countries on six continents. She also plays classical music on piano and composes a little jazz. Career-wise, she has worked as a high school teacher and as a university administrator of an international student…
Choi, Ann Yu-Kyung
Toronto
Ann Yu-Kyung
Choi
Toronto
Ann Yu-Kyung
Originally from South Korea, Ann Yu-Kyung Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was a Toronto Book Awards finalist and One of CBC Books 12 Best Canadian Debut Novels of 2016. Her published essays explore issues around cultural and…
Chong, Denise
Chong, Kevin
Vancouver
Kevin
Chong
Vancouver
Kevin
Kevin Chong is the author of seven books, most recently the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, where he presently lives with his family. He is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He reads and…
Chornenki, Genevieve
Christian, Dorothy