Born and educated in England with a background in Journalism, English Literature and History. Moved to Canada in 1968, married, raised two children and became an active freelance writer, columnist and author of fourteen books. In recent years, Valerie has expanded her writing…

Mark Allan Greene is an author, playwright, and lawyer who grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick. As a child, he explored the many buildings, monuments, and historic locations where the ghosts of the past still remain. This sparked his desire to resurrect the epic stories that…

Leslie Greentree’s new short story collection, Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For (September 2022, University of Calgary Press) was shortlisted for a 2023 High Plains Book Award. An earlier short story collection, A Minor Planet for You, won the 2007 Howard O’Hagan Prize for…

Therese Greenwood’s memoir, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, published by the University of Alberta Press, was a Finalist for Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Book Publishers of Alberta. Her short crime fiction has appeared across Canada and…

I have always wanted to be a writer. Even in elementary school I would write and illustrate comic books and the happiest my parents could make me was when they would buy me a pad of blank paper to write on. Struck down by a two severe disabilities at the age of 19, I started to…

Nan Gregory has been a professional storyteller since 1984. She wrote her first story in 1995. Since then she has explored storymaking, both oral and written. She gives workshops in storytelling as well as storytelling performances and author presentations for all ages.

* Career sports journalist and author of seven books, including Canadian bestsellers Chuvalo: A Fighter's Life (with George Chuvalo) and Big Bucks & Blue Pucks: An anecdotal history of the late, great World Hockey Association. * Staff writer and columnist at major dailies…

I'm an independent historian who's interested in culture wars and cultural creativity. So far I've written four books. The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History examines how environmental degradation has affected society across the center of the…

Born in Belleville, Ontario, Barry Grills began his writing career as a journalist. He has been a reporter, editor, columnist, broadcaster, and communications consultant. He began publishing short fiction in 1973, publishing stories in such literary publications as Grain, The…

Gord is nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation, and has earned an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor (2020). He also completed his BA (Hon) from the University of Windsor in 2018, almost 30 years after he started his post secondary…

Described as a “masterful writer” and “brilliant storyteller”, Darren Groth is the internationally published author of works including Kindling, Are You Seeing Me?, Munro vs. the Coyote, and his latest novel, Boy in the Blue Hammock. He is an Adelaide Festival Award for…

Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. She has been a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her translations into English include works by Marie-Claire Blais,…

Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer and blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and broadcast journalist and as a radio host for the CBC. He has written or edited nine books. The most recent, A Communist for the RCMP, was published in June 2024…

Inspired by living in Costa Rica, Susan Grundy veered from her thirty-year career in marketing to write stories about the weight of emotional distress and how to step into an easier way of being. Her short fiction has appeared in The Danforth Review and Montréal Writes. …

Born in Miami, Florida in 1944, Sandra Gulland lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador for one year. Settling in Toronto, she worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with her…

  Genni Gunn is an author, musician and translator. Born in Trieste, she came to Canada as a child. Her fourteen published books include four novels, three short story collections, three poetry collections, and a collection of personal essays. As well, she has translated from…