Member Directory
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Thetis Island
Thetis Island
Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940. He completed a doctorate at University of Toronto and has taught at various institutions in Canada and abroad, including Western Washington University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture. Geddes has written…
Brentwood Bay
Brentwood Bay
Leslie’s debut middle-grade novel Elvis, Me and The Lemonade Stand Summer won the Victoria Children’s Book Prize, The Jean Little First-Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for ten other awards, including The Washington State Library Award 2025.
Her second novel, Shamus The…
Mia Herrera’s short stories, feature articles, and reviews have appeared in various online and print publications like CG Monthly, Live in Limbo, Side Street Review, Hart House Review, and TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 7. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an…
Regina
Calgary
Calgary
Ben Berman Ghan is a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary.
His debut collection of fiction, What We See in the Smoke, was published by Crowsnest Books in May 2019, his Novella Visitation Seeds was published by 845 Press in December 2020, and…
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Carole Giangrande was born and raised in the New York city area. She came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She's worked as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio, a Writer-in-Residence and as a teacher of journalism and political science, and she's given readings…
Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Anne Giardini, O.C., O.B.C., K.C. Anne's first novel, The Sad Truth About Happiness, was published by HarperCollins/Fourth Estate in Canada, the UK, the US and Australia in spring 2005. It was short-listed for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2006 and for an Audie…
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
DOUGLAS GIBSON was born in Scotland in 1943. After somehow acquiring degrees from the University of St Andrews and from Yale, he came to Canada in 1967. He soon became a Trainee Editor at Doubleday Canada in Toronto. The die was cast. For more than 40 years he was to work in…
Lanark County
Lanark County
Susan Gillis has lived on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and along the St. Lawrence River, and now makes her home near Perth in eastern Ontario. Her most recent book, Yellow Crane (Brick 2018), is a meditation on ecologies of place, writing, and desire. Volta, her second book,…
Etobicoke
Marathon
Hamilton
Hamilton
I am a writer, theatre artist, live arts producer and arts educator whose work over the past 40 years has evolved at the intersection of arts and activism. I currently live in Hamilton, Ontario with my husband, composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland. In collaboration with other artists…
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Susan Glickman was raised in Montreal and studied and travelled in Europe, Asia, and North America before settling in Toronto where she lives with glass artist Toan Klein and raised their two children, Jesse and Rachel. She has always been involved with books, working at a…
Winnipeg
Frankville, ON
Frankville, ON
Celia has enjoyed a number of complimentary and overlapping careers that combine her love of art and nature. She's worked as a biologist, a natural science illustrator, and a teacher of studio arts courses, but she's best known as the author and illustrator of award-winning…
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Jennifer Gold won her first creative writing award at nine years old for a short story about Bigfoot and a group of alligators sponsored by the Lipton Soup company. After studying psychology, law, and public health at York, McGill, and Harvard Universities, she decided to return…