Gloria Macher is a representative of contemporary humanist literature. She writes poetry and fiction by exploring social, political, ecological, and existential themes that fuel reflection on our human condition. The author has published five novels, a collection of short…

Wendy MacIntyre lives in Carleton Place, Ontario where she supports herself as a freelance writer and editor. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. In addition to the novels listed below, she has published short…

R.P. MacIntyre works primarily as a fiction writer and editor although he has also written for radio, television and the stage. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1947 and makes his home in Christina Lake, B.C. and La Peñita de Jaltemba, Nayarit, MX with Sharyn. He has…

Carol L. MacKay’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Devour: Art & Lit Canada, The Fiddlehead, Watershed (U of California, Chico), Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review, Red Berry Review, Lichen, Existere, and Crannog (Ireland). Her work is also included in Shy: An…

Elly MacKay is the author and illustrator of several picture books, such as Red Sky at Night, Butterfly Park and If You Hold A Seed. She is known for her unusual illustrations using light and paper. She lives in Owen Sound, Ontario with her family. 

Richard Somerset Mackie has an honours M.A. in mediaeval and modern history from the University of St. Andrews. He is the publisher of The British Columbia Review in Vancouver. 

My newest book is entitled The Premier and His Grandmother: Peter Lougheed, Lady Belle and the Legacy of Metis Identity. My next book is an edited collection entitled Metis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition, now available through pre-orders. My interest in sharing the stories of…

Two of Jill MacLean's novels for middle-grade readers ("The Nine Lives of Travis Keating" and "The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy") won The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature, as did her YA free verse novel, "Nix Minus One." Her third middle-…

Wendy has been blissfully free to follow the Spirit wherever it leads. This has taken her in and out of conventional roles, from her birth in Toronto and childhood in the suburbs of Montreal, to a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in English and Classics and training in…

Kyo Maclear is an essayist, editor, novelist and children’s author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages, published in over twenty-five countries, and garnered nominations from the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General’s…

Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and movement teacher (yoga, Feldenkrais Method), who leads 'body-centred writing' workshops. She recently completed her first book of poetry. Her nonfiction book, In Praise of Retreat, won a Gold Independent Book Publishers' Award in 2021, and…

Erin MacNair (she, her) is a Wisconsinite now living in North Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Her stories have been published in The Baffler, The Walrus, december, subTerrain and others. She's finished writing a…

Margaret Macpherson (she/her) has lived and written in Yellowknife, Halifax, Bermuda, Edmonton, Vancouver and Nelson, BC. She has recently decamped  to Eastern Ontario. She is the author of eight books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her newest work Tracking the Caribou Queen:…

Tamara has three “boys” aged 13, 15 and 49, and is the guardian of quirky second-hand dogs. Journalism and political science degrees from Carleton University paved the way for Tamara to serve as a voice for several not-for-profit organizations spanning two decades. A writer and…

Roy MacSkimming is the author of four novels and three works of non-fiction.  His historical novels recreate the personal lives of two great Canadian political leaders. Macdonald (Thomas Allen, 2007) portrays the final days of Canada's controversial first prime minister, Sir…

Darlene Madott is an award-winning writer who practised law in Toronto for more than 35 years. Author of a growing number of books, her 9th and most recent work, WINNERS AND LOSERS (Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss) Guernica, spring, 2023, offers a front-row seat onto the field…

Colette Maitland writes fiction, poetry and the occasional essay in Gananoque, ON. In 2013, Biblioasis published her first book, Keeping the Peace (short stories), which went on to be short-listed for the 2014 Re-Lit Award. The novel Riel Street with Frontenac House came out the…

Vancouver-based DesiPOC author Tāriq Malik has worked across poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual arts for the past four decades to distill immersive and original narratives. He writes intensely in response to the world in flux around him and to his place in its shadows.…

  Fareh Malik is a BIPOC artist from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word poet and established author. Fareh was named the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winner. He was also the winner of Hamilton Art’s Shirley Elford Prize, The 2022 October Project Poetry…

Vera Maloff was born into a Doukhobor family who lived on a market garden farm in Thrums, British Columbia. She studied at Selkirk College in Castlegar, obtained a teaching certificate from Notre Dame University in Nelson and received her BEd and Diploma in Guidance Studies from…