Member Directory
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Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
Connie Kuhns has a forty-year history as an essayist, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. Her essay Strange Women (Geist 95), about women in Vancouver's early punk scene, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Last Day in Cheyenne (Geist 84) was named a 'Notable…
St. Catharines
Arnes
Arnes
MICHAEL KUSUGAK grew up in Naujaat (Repulse Bay), NWT (now Nunavut). During his childhood, his family travelled by dog sled, living a traditional Inuit lifestyle. He is the author of nine children’s books, including A Promise Is A Promise; Baseball Bats for Christmas; Hide and…
Toronto
Toronto
Lynne Kutsukake is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Translation of Love, won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. She was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize for her…
Ottawa
Vancouver
Vancouver
I've written more than 30 books for middle-grade and young-adult readers. I write both fiction and non-fiction, often choosing topics related to science, pop culture, or social history — or a combination of the three. I love tales about rogue scientists, obsessed adventurers,…
Guelph
Born and bred in la belle province and now a resident of Chicago, AIMÉE LABERGE has worked in the field of broadcast television as an art director in Montreal, Toronto, and London before publishing her first novel, Where the River Narrows (Harper Collins Canada 2003). Les…
Gibsons
Gibsons
Cathalynn Cindy Labonté-Smith grew up in Southwestern Alberta and moved to Vancouver, BC, to complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After graduation, she worked as a freelance journalist until present. She became a…
Etobicoke
Etobicoke
I have been building my voice online for eight years with humor in Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, Greener Pastures, and more. My personal essays are scattered online like fairy dust and appear in four published anthologies. I was awarded an honorable mention at The Memoirist’s…
Eganville
Ottawa
Tiny
Tiny
Bianca Lakoseljac (née Planinčić) is an award-winning author of two novels, Stone Woman (2016) and Summer of the Dancing Bear (2012); a collection of stories, Bridge in the Rain (2010); and a collection of poetry, Memoirs of a Praying Mantis (2009). She holds an MA and an…
Windsor
Gitxsan Territory
Gitxsan Territory
Angélique Lalonde dwells on Gitxsan Territory north of Hazelton, BC. She is the author of Glorious Frazzled Beings, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Angélique was the recipient of the 2019 Journey Prize, holds a PhD in Anthropology, and has been…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of three books of poetry, Intimate Distances, Enter the Chrysanthemum, and Odes & Laments. Her poetry has thrice been chosen for BC’s Poetry in Transit program. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work has…
