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Toronto
Toronto
Marvyne Jenoff’s fifth book, a poetry collection, came out in March, 2022 with Silver Bow Publishing. Called Climbing the Rain, it includes poems that span her 60-year literary career as well as her recent poems of love and age. Marvyne Jenoff was born in Winnipeg and began…
Yellowknife
Yellowknife
Cathy Jewison is a short story writer living in Yellowknife, NWT. A  collection of her Yellowknife stories, The Ugly Truck and Dog Contest and Other Tales of Northern Life, was published by Borealis Press of Ottawa in 2009. Cathy has worked as a newspaper reporter, copy editor,…
Windsor & Toronto
Windsor & Toronto
Karl Jirgens was born in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus (U. Windsor). He served as editor/publisher of Rampike magazine (1979-2016). The Rampike digital archive is free to the public c/o U Windsor's Leddy Library (all copyrights remain with contributors); https://scholar.…
K.V. Johansen has Master's Degrees in Medieval Studies (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) and in English (McMaster). Her main scholarly interests are ancient and medieval history and languages, and the history of children's fantasy literature. Her non-fiction…
Sudbury
Sudbury
JEREMY JOHN is currently ranked as the sixty-second most famous person from Brantford, Ontario. (Look it up. There are a lot.) His career in broadcasting has included co-hosting shows on 680 NEWS, KiSS FM, and Breakfast Television. He is the author of two collections of short…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.
Kamloops
Kamloops
George M. Johnson was born in 1961 in Waterdown, Ontario. In 1984 he received an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he held a S.S.H.R.C. doctoral fellowship. Since 1991 he…
New Denmark, New Brunswick
New Denmark, New Brunswick
     J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for an author/playwright/composer living with (dis)Ability who now lives in the Appalachians of New Brunswick, where she and her husband and mother live on their small farm overlooking inspirational views of nature.  Like her grandmother…
Hello everybody—late bloomer here! To contact me or to hear me read a chapter from my memoir They Left Us Everything, or to see behind-the-scenes videos, please visit my website at: https://plumjohnson.com  
Vancouver
Vancouver
Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been…
Whitefish Falls
Whitefish Falls
Terry Lynn Johnson has been a dog musher with eighteen sled dogs, a wilderness park ranger, and currently works as a conservation officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources in northern Ontario. Terry's novels have been recognized by Bank Street College Best Books, ABA Best…
Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
 Sandi Johnson is interested in imaginative work that is socially relevant. "The Comfort of Angels," a fictional work, is based on her experience of working with Ojibwa Indians in northwestern Ontario. It portrays dignified characters who desire freedom and a better life. "The…
Brampton
Brampton
Natalee A. Johnson (Naj) is a graduate of Niagara University with a B.A in Professional Studies in Education, graduate of the University of Victoria with a B.A in Child and Youth Work, Diploma in Court and Tribunal Administration and Early Childhood Educator from Seneca College…
Wayne Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland in 1958. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a BA (Hons) in English. He worked from 1978-1981 as a newspaper reporter with the St. John's Daily News. In 1981, after moving to Ottawa, he took up the…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Simon's novel “The House of Wives," inspired by the lives of his mixed race family was published by Penguin Canada and Penguin India in 2016. His short stories have appeared in Ricepaper magazine and short fiction won the Friends of White Rock Library’s Writing Contest in 2015…
Toronto
Liz
Toronto
Liz Johnston lives and writes in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Humber Literary Review, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review, among other publications. She is an editor of the international literary magazine Brick. For more information,…
Halifax
Halifax
A.J.B. Johnston writes both fiction and history. John (or Jay) is originally from Truro, NS, and completed an MA in History at Dalhousie University, then a PhD at the Université Laval. He worked for Parks Canada for many years, with his time at the Fortress of Louisbourg being…
Otonabee
Otonabee
Gordon Johnston was born in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, in 1947. He studied at Trinity College in Toronto and then at Harvard before starting a teaching career at Trent University in Peterborough that lasted forty years until he retired in 2011. He organized the university's…
Toronto
Toronto
Gord and his wife, Teena, live in Toronto with their two cats, Crumpet and Muffin. Defending the Inland Shores: Newfoundland in the War of 1812 was his first published work. Saving Tiberius (2020) was his first fictional novel. On September 1, his new crime thriller, Predators…
Regina
Regina
Gerry Jones was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Gerry has travelled extensively from sea to sea to sea. He was a journalist for most of his working life, starting with newspapers and then moving to radio and television. He is an award-winning investigative journalist. Gerry…