Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Let the Empire Down ( 2016), and Hail, the Invisible Watchman (2022). Her…

George was co-founder of the magazine that is currently called “Recreational Flyer”. He was the main contributor of articles and fictional stories, as well as the Editor. While traveling on business during his career, George wrote numerous short stories and many filmscripts,…

Treena Orchard is an anthropologist, author, and activist who researches sexuality, gender, and the politics of health among marginalized groups and within the context of her own life. She is currently an Associate Professor & Undergraduate Chair in the School of Health…

Judie Oron is a Canadian/Israeli journalist who was born in Montreal, moved to Israel in 1967 and returned to Canada in 2004. She was a feature writer at ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ including a four year stint as a weekly columnist. Later, she directed the newspaper’s charitable Funds…

    James Osborne is a writer and book editor with more than 30 years experience. He is a former senior editor for a national news service and has edited books of fiction, non-fiction and memoirs. He is also a bestselling novelist and author of more than 120 short stories. His…

Richard Osler (65) is an experienced poetry writing facilitator and workshop leader who leads more than one hundred writing retreats and workshops a year in the U.S. and Canada. His poems have been published in the U.S. and Canada. His full-length collection, Hyaena Season, was…

Rosalie Osmond is a writer and lecturer who was educated at institutions in three countries (Acadia University, Bryn Mawr College, and Cambridge University) and has spent her life divided between the two sides of the Atlantic. She has taught English literature in universities in…

Christine Ottoni is a writer based in Toronto. Her short fiction has appeared in the pages of untethered, The Nashwaak Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Riddle Fence, Exile Literary Quarterly, and PRISM international. She was short-listed for PEN Canada's nomination to the…

Born in Guelph, Ontario, John has lived in Egypt, Iraq and Japan and then settled in Toronto. He has a BA and MA in English from York U., and non-credit writing courses at the jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he worked closely with Allen GInsberg and Anne…

Born in London, England, Kathy Page now lives in BC. She gained her BA at York (England) and her MA in writing from the University of East Anglia.   A versatile writer, Page has a long-standing interest in complex characters who struggle with their own natures and circumstances…

Rajinderpal S. Pal is a writer and performer based in Toronto. Pal’s first collection of poetry, pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read (TSAR, 1998), was the winner of the 1999 Writer’s Guild of Alberta (WGA) Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book. Pal’s second…

Sofi Papamarko is a former regular columnist for The Toronto Star, Sun Media Newspapers and Metro Canada. She’s also written for The Globe & Mail, Chatelaine, Flare, CBC, Reader’s Digest, Salon, Exclaim! and many other publications, both living and dead. Her short stories…

Biography Lamara hails from a richly diverse heritage, with roots in Canada, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Syria. She is an accomplished scholar, holding a degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Arts. Lamara has also explored comparative literature at the University of…

Born in Chennai, India, Uma Parameswaran (nee Ganesan) was educated at Jabalpur (B.A.), Nagpur (Dip journalism and M.A), Indiana University (M.A. creative writing), and Michigan State University (Ph.D). Married to a mathematician, she has lived in Winnipeg since 1966. She joined…