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Hamilton
Toronto
Toronto
ZALIKA REID-BENTA is a Toronto-based writer. Her debut novel River Mumma was shortlisted for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and was listed as one of the best fiction books of 2023 on numerous platforms, such as CBC Books, Kobo Books, and The Walrus. River Mumma received starred…
Calgary
Jim
Calgary
Jim Reily is a storyteller, musician, and educator. He is the author of four books: the fictional Bass Player, along with biographies of three of today’s most influential and impactful musical instrument designers, StickMan: The Story of Emmett Chapman & the Instrument He…
Ottawa
Ottawa
They say that Chile is a country of poets and that all its inhabitants want to be writers. I was born in Chile but left the country in 1975. I lived in Venezuela for five years and then came to Canada in 1980. It is in this country that I published my first novel. From that…
Calgary
Calgary
Calgarian Faye Reineberg Holt loves word and history. As a writer, researcher, and editor, she is fascinated by the stories and history of Western Canada, but writing remains her first love. She has published 13 books of non-fiction, co-authored a travel book, written a poetry…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta where she examines ritual and liturgical change during the English Reformation through the lenses of gender and materiality. Autumn has many secondary research interests, especially the…
Prince George
Al
Prince George
 Al Rempel’s books of poetry are Undiscovered Country (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019), This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For (Caitlin Press, 2013),  Understories (Caitlin Press, 2010) and two chapbooks: Four Neat Holes (Leaf Press, 2016) and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick…
Toronto
Toronto
Colleen René is a Nova Scotia-raised Toronto-based writer. Her work has appeared in journals across Canada and her short story All That’s Left won Dalhousie University’s James DeMille Short Story Prize in 2016. Her short story Growing Pains was long-listed for the CBC Short…
Napanee
Napanee
II was born in Smith Falls Ontario. When I actually had to work for a living it was for Northern Telecom and Nortel for 30 years, retiring in 2002. I am a Native Algonquin person, belong to the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. My early years were spent in Wilton an Odessa Ontario…
Clarington
Clarington
I write children's books, memoirs, short stories and the occasional poem.  Some of my books have won awards. Most have done well in the marketplace. I'm also an avid blogger. Yet, I'm still learning about how to tell compelling stories that touch the reader's heart and mind…
Lisa Reynolds is an internationally published writer of poetry and short stories with translations in Farsi, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish. Her poetry has been featured in art/poetry exhibits in Canada and the USA. She is the 2023 recipient of The Ontario Poetry Society's Ted…
GUELPH
GUELPH
Greg Rhyno’s first novel To Me You Seem Giant was nominated for a ReLit Award and an Alberta Book Publishing Award. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals including Hobart, Riddle Fence, PRISM International, and The Quarantine Review. He completed an MFA at the…
Born in Leamington, Ontario to parents from the Molise region of Italy, Nino Ricci completed studies at York University in Toronto, at Concordia University in Montreal, and at the University of Florence, and has taught extensively both in Canada and abroad, including two years…
Waterloo
Waterloo
Vanessa is a word sorceress — an SFF author and editor — who loves a good story. She’s a NaNoWriMo veteran, a Halloween enthusiast, and a bookish geek who loves dragons, dogs, astronomy, travel and good tequila.
Toronto
Toronto
Giovanna Riccio is a University of Toronto graduate with a major in philosophy. She is the author of  one chapbook and two poetry collections. Her poems, essays and book reviews have appeared in national and international anthologies and journals including Exile Quarterly, CV2,…
Sudbury
Sudbury
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His…
Regina
Regina
Bruce Rice is the previous Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, an essayist, and editor living in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4 Territory and the Métis homeland. He grew up in Prince Albert and returned to the province after ten years in the Maritimes. Bruce holds a B.A. from Saint…
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Harriet Richards’ creative reality was as a visual artist until an obstinate painting insisted on becoming a short story. Since then, she’s published three books of fiction. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio, and published in literary journals in Canada and Wales; and her…
Port Alberni
Port Alberni
Faith Richardson can’t remember a time when she was not fascinated by stories. A confirmed  ‘bookaholic,’ early favorites were the Enid Blyten ‘Adventure’ series, the Nesbit stories, and later  the novels of Rosemary Sutcliff, Ursula Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and L. M.…
Toronto
Toronto
Lisa Richter (she/her) is a poet, writer and educator. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017) and Nautilus and Bone (Frontenac House, 2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US), the…
Kelly-Anne Riess is an award-winning freelance journalist and poet who lives in Regina. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and other newspapers across the country. She has travelled across North America working on documentaries…
Picton
Picton
A writer and documentary-maker, I live with my partner in rural eastern Ontario, Canada.  It’s a half-wild place, where I find the view clearer than in the surge and tumult of the mainstream. From here I generate books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Scot Ritchie is an award winning author/illustrator who lives in Vancouver. He has written and illustrated numerous children's books, which have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Polish, French and Arabic. Scot has worked with the National Film Board of…