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.
Cree, Metis, Settler
Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw
Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer from Moose Jaw who taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School of th Arts and at The Sage Hill Writing Experience. The author of 13 books, he feels blessed to have served two terms as Saskatchewan Poet Laureate and to have delivered the…
Brampton
New Westminster
New Westminster
Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023), The Inquisition Yours (…
Toronto
Montreal
Montreal
Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,…
Montreal
Montreal
I am a writer, literary translator, and journalist. I am a co-founder and publisher of Accenti, an English-language cultural magazine, and of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works that celebrate cultural diversity. As a photojournalist for an international NGO…
MONTREAL
MONTREAL
Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years…
Calgary
Fort Erie
Fort Erie
Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full length…
Vancouver
Vancouver
I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, April 2019), inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter. The story is an on-the-road adventure that covers the terrain of love, race and science …
Wasaga
Wasaga
Tasneem has a degree in Drawing and Painting and a minor in English from OCAD University, but she learned most of what she knows from reading children’s books with her daughter. Her books are Amazon bestsellers in categories such as Children’s Inspirational & Personal Growth…
Ottawa
Victoria
Toronto/gta
Toronto/gta
Arundati Dandapani, MLitt, CAIP, CIPP/C, is an award winning researcher and the founder of Generation1.ca, a platform and community that places Canada's immigrant newcomers, legal cannabis and non-profit associations at the forefront of data and insights innovation using its…
Toronto
Toronto
Jasveer is an author, podcast host, behavioural trainer and award-winning health and safety professional. He is currently based in Canada. He was part of the team of trainers that trained 22,000 volunteers for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. He loves the outdoors and…
Toronto
Toronto
Helen Dantas is a Brazilian Canadian novelist, public speaker, and workshop designer and facilitator. She was born to a middle-class family in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in southeast Brazil.
Dantas completed her studies in 1986, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in…
