Jack Hodgins was born in Comox on Vancouver Island in 1938, and raised in the logging community of Merville. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, he moved--with his wife Dianne--to Nanaimo, where he taught high school English until 1979. He has been a writer…

After a career that spanned areas from space hardware engineering to books and podcasts on etymology Charles has decided that there is nothing more worthy of his time than trying to stimulate solutions to climate change. To that end he dedicates his time to constructive…

Andrea/ Andy Hoff (she/her) is a graphic novelist, nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary media artist. She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Language & Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where she co-creates comics about the future with young people as a…

Canadian-born of Jamaican immigrant parents, Nadia L. Hohn is an award-winning author, educator, and diverse children's literature advocate and “artivist”.  Nadia L. Hohn is the author of Malaika’s Costume (2016) which was the 2021 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.  Her other books in…

Linda received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a BEd in Special Education and MEd in Educational Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has crossed genres with her work, publishing both short story collections and novels for young adults and adults…

Born in Toronto and educated in Toronto and London, Greg has published four story collections and three novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and former director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. He has won the Governor General's Award for…

Cynthia Holz is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in New York City and came to Toronto in 1976 as a Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. Her fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and…

David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952 of East European stock. He left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and lived in Europe and Toronto before moving to Montreal around 1980. He was educated in three countries and worked at a variety of industrial jobs before…

Keiko Honda is a scientist, writer, community organizer and painter. She holds a PhD in international community health from New York University, but when she suddenly contracted a rare autoimmune disease that confined her to a wheelchair for life, she had to leave her career in…

Children's book author with a passion for promoting literacy.

I am a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community radio host & producer. My poems, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction appear in publications across the U.S. and Canada, including Room Magazine, Geez magazine, Mutha magazine, Opus, Dialogue, catapult…

Cornelia Hoogland is 2023 winner of the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award given by the League of Canadian Poets. Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award.  Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) was a finalist…

Alyson Hope is a writer who currently lives in Montreal, the island of Tiohtià:ke – unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. In 2014, Hope received her Master’s Degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Based largely on ecocritical theory, her thesis…

   Bio Shahanaz is a Canadian Author, teacher and presenter  who is also member of TWUC and League of Canadian poets.  She came from Bangladesh as a young woman. She believes: "human setting" is like  seasonal plant,  very short so, every single second meant to be positively…

​Leah Horlick is the 2022-2023 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distnguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. A writer and poet, her most recent collection, "Moldovan Hotel," was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut book of poetry, "Riot…

Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, A Map of Rain Days, published by Guernica Editions in 2020, was longlisted for the League of…

Jess H̓áust̓i is a parent, writer, and land-based educator from the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation in Bella Bella. They live and work in their unceded ancestral homelands where they focus their practice on community building, food sovereignty, and Indigenous culture and language…

As a novelist and script writer writer, Meg balances her writing time with teaching creative writing at Fanshawe College (London, Ontario). The new year has bought a contract from World Castle Publishing for a new mystery thriller.  Updates to follow before publication.