Author of over 50 titles for children of all ages, Hazel's pictures books and novels for young people have been published in Canada and the U. S. by Annick, Scholastic, Orca, Formac, Viking and Oxford U.K. and appear in various translations in many interesting…

Born in Montreal, Chris Hutchinson is the author of four previous poetry books as well as the speculative autobiography-in-verse novel Jonas in Frames (Goose Lane Editions). His next poetry collection, Lost Signal, will appear in the fall of 2025 thanks to Palimpsest Press.…

 Short story, The Killing Room, TBP by At Bay Press, Winnipeg. Picture book, Finding Moufette, TBP Oct 2023. Novella, Heads I Win Tails You Lose, TBP March 2024, AOS Publishing.  Juvenile time-travel novel, Jason and the Wonderhorn (Fogbound Through Time Book 1) now available as…

Elio Iannacci is an award-winning writer, poet and a long-time arts reporter for The Globe and Mail. He has written for more than 80 publications, contributing to periodicals such as Maclean's, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Hollywood Reporter and The Toronto Review of…

Roy Innes comes from a family of Canadian pioneers — prairie sod-busters in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He was born in Regina, but grew up in Victoria, B.C. where he attended high school and junior college. Fine arts were his first love but the world of science lured him away for…

A University of Toronto graduate, Susan Ioannou has published numerous literary articles, short stories, two children's novels, several poetry collections, and a nonfiction study on writing poetry. For many years she led creative writing workshops for the Toronto Board of…

Kevin Irie is a third generation Japanese-Canadian who was born and raised in Toronto where he received his M.A. from the University of Toronto. His work has appeared both here and abroad in the U.K., the States, Germany, and Australia and has also been translated into Spanish,…

It was in Grade 1 that Sue discovered the love of reading. That was when her mother took her to the local public library for the first time. Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" were her favorites, and after completing one book, she couldn't wait to return…

Frances Itani, C.M., writer of novels, short stories, poetry, essays, reviews and children's books, has written 18 books and is the recipient of the 2021 Matt Cohen Award "In Celebration of a Writing Life." She is also the recipient of the 2019 Library and Archives Canada…

Sally Ito is a witer and translator. She was born in Taber, Alberta, and currently lives in Winnipeg. She has published three books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel, A Season of Mercy, and Alert to Glory, as well as a collection of short stories called Floating Shore.  In…

Albert M. Jabara was born in Lebanon on August 17, 1947, in a village directly opposite Mount Haramoon. He moved to Canada, where he held his first job at age 13 to support himself, his mother, and his younger brother and sister. Mr. Jabara attended schools intermittently and…

  Marni Jackson is a Toronto writer and author who has won numerous National Magazine Awards for her articles and social commentary. Her work has appeared in publications that include Rolling Stone, the London Sunday Times, The Walrus, Maclean’s and Brick magazine, and her three…

Melanie is a Vancouver writer/editor who free-lances for corporate communications, magazines and newspapers.  She is also the author of such middle-grade/young-adult suspensers with Orca Book Publishers as The Big Dip and Death Drop, as well as the Dinah Galloway Mystery Series…

Quinn Tyler Jackson has been a silkscreen printer’s apprentice, a bookseller’s assistant, a gas pumpist, a freelance editor, a literary agent, a researcher, a Chief Architect, and is currently a Chief Scientist (Mathematics). Jackson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a…

Taslim Jaffer is a freelance writer, editor and writing instructor. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of King's College and has been teaching expressive writing and memoir in community and rehabilitative settings since 2015. Taslim is currently working on…

Peter Jailall, retired teacher, storyteller and poet has read his work in schools, libraries and universities across Canada and in the Caribbean. An avid supporter of human rights and social justice, he expresses his compassion and passion for human values through poetry and…

Sheila James is an award winning author and videographer, produced playwright and has performed, composed and recorded original music for stage, screen and broadcast. Her work explores the “other” or “outsider” as she brings a critical anti-racist, feminist and queer perspective…