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.
Toronto
Nelson
Nelson
Antonia Banyard is the author of one novel for adults, four non-fiction books for middle readers and two board books. She has a BA (University of Victoria) and a MPhil (University of Queensland), both in Writing. She has worked in book publishing and/or graphic design for 20-…
Vancouver
Toronto
Toronto
Linwood Barclay is the author of more than twenty thrillers, a memoir, and two thrillers for young readers. His books have sold more than seven million copies and been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the adaptation of his novel Never Saw it Coming for the…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Michelle Barker’s most recent publication is Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling, co-authored with David Griffin Brown (2023). Her novel My Long List of Impossible Things (2020) is published by Annick Press and is a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection…
Squamish, Sea-to-Sky, Vancouver
Squamish, Sea-to-Sky, Vancouver
Donna Barker is a career non-fiction ghostwriter and curriculum creator whose work has won national awards (which other people get to show on their shelves). Donna is the co-founder of The Creative Academy for Writers with her author pals Eileen Cook and Crystal (CJ) Hunt. With…
Mahone Bay
Mahone Bay
Janet Barkhouse is a poet and writer. Salt Fires, her debut book of poetry (Pottersfield Press, 2018) follows on two chapbooks, Silence (2015) and Sable Island Fieldnotes: poems by Janet Barkhouse, photographs by Zoe Lucas, which launched in 2017. Her publications for children…
Oakville
Calgary
Celista
Celista
Born in Salmon Arm, B.C., Deanna Kawatski travelled extensively in her twenties, her wandering financed by tree planting back in B.C. In 1974 she studied writing with George Ryga and in 1975 with W.O. Mitchell. Later Deanna spent thirteen years leading a pioneer existence in the…
Kingston
Toronto
Toronto
Gavin Barrett is a poet and creative entrepreneur, and the author of Understan, a new collection of poems published by Mawenzi House in June 2020. Gavin was born in Bombay, of Anglo-Indian and Goan East African parentage. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Xavier’s…
Uxbridge
Uxbridge
Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and TV Ontario, and regular contributions to the Globe and Mail and the National Post, Barris has authored 20 non-fiction books, including a dozen bestsellers on Canadians in…
Fort Frances
Fort Frances
Joelle Barron is an award-winning poet and writer living on the Traditional Territory of the Anishinaabe of Treaty 3 and the Métis people (Fort Frances, ON). Their first poetry collection, Ritual Lights (ice house press, 2018), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award…
Okanagan Falls
Okanagan Falls
Karen Barrow was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, where she lived for eighteen years. Her studies took her to Canada, while marriage to a geologist took her across the country and beyond. Several degrees later, while working as an audiologist, Karen succumbed to her…
Halifax
Victoria
Toronto,
