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Penne, A. S.

Sechelt

A. S.

Penne

Sechelt

A.S. Penne is the author of the creative nonfiction memoir Old Stones (Touchwood Editions, Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria2002). Her writing has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the UK’s Ian St. James Award (1996, 1994), the Writers’…

Bowen Island

Vancouver

Vancouver

Cristina is passionate about art and Italian culture. Born in Orsara di Puglia, she immigrated to Canada with her parents as a toddler. A Vancouver based visual artist, writer and pediatric diabetes educator, Cristina is also a member of the Association of…

Toronto

Toronto

Daniel Perry is the author of the novella Modern Folklore (Little Ghosts, 2024), and the short story collections Hamburger (Thistledown, 2016) and Nobody Looks That Young Here (Guernica, 2018). His fiction has been short-listed for the Carter V. Cooper Prize, and has appeared in…

Pesando, Frank

London

Frank

Pesando

London

I was born in Brampton, Ontario on February 1, 1948. When Prime Minister Diefenbaker destroyed the Canadian branch of AVRO by cancelling the Avro Arrow in 1959, my father moved his family to Massachusettes, where he found employment at RCA in Burlington. After…

Petch, Charlie

East York

Charlie

Petch

East York

Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival…

Peters, Clorinde

Halifax

Clorinde

Peters

Halifax

Clorinde is a multidisciplinary writer, an editor, a former cultural studies academic, and an American turned Canadian. She has published several articles and essays on photography, social justice, and motherhood in academic and literary venues—including Afterimage and…

Peters, Sheila

Powell River

Sheila

Peters

Powell River

Born in the coastal BC town of Powell River, Sheila Peters moved inland to the mountains near Smithers in northwestern BC in 1977. She married and raised two sons while working as a journalist, weaver, college instructor, environmental and human rights activist. Her work has…

Peterson, Shelley

TBA

Shelley

Peterson

TBA

Shelley Peterson was born in London, Ontario and studied theatre at Dalhousie University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Western University. She's worked as an actress in theatre, film and television since childhood. Currently she's working on a new novel, and raises and…

Peterson, Lois

Nanaimo

Lois

Peterson

Nanaimo

Born in the UK, Lois Peterson was raised in England, at a Cornish boarding school, and in Iraq. She came to Vancouver in 1971 via Paris, London and New York. In BC she raised a daughter, Holly, and worked for 40 years in a public library. Meanwhile, her short stories, articles…

Pflug, Ursula

Peterborough

Ursula

Pflug

Peterborough

Ursula Pflug (she/her) is the author of eight books of fiction and editor or co-editor of three edited anthologies, published by award-winning Canadian, US and UK small presses. These include the novels Green Music, The Alphabet Stones, Motion Sickness (a flash novel illustrated…

Phan, Rachel

Toronto

Rachel

Phan

Toronto

Rachel Phan is a Toronto-based Chinese Canadian author. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Master of Journalism program, she's shared her stories on CBC, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Huffpost, and Maclean's.Rachel’s work often explores the impacts of racism,…

Phillips, Deborah A.M.

Mont-Tremblant

Deborah A.M.

Phillips

Mont-Tremblant

Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe),B.A., M.F.A, is an editor, poet, conference speaker and author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their own crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada…

Phillips, Wendy

Gabriola Island

Wendy

Phillips

Gabriola Island

Wendy Phillips is a writer of young adult novels in verse. Her first novel, Fishtailing, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's text in 2010. Her second novel, Baggage, was published in 2019, and was short-listed for the Ontario Library…

Phillips, Dorothy

Ottawa

Dorothy

Phillips

Ottawa

Dorothy Anne Phillips, graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta. A social psychologist, she retired from a research career in the federal civil service in 1996. Living in Ottawa, she took advantage of Library and Archives Canada to find records…

Phinney, Sandra

Yarmouth

Sandra

Phinney

Yarmouth

Sandra Phinney is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose by-line and photos have appeared in over 70 publications. Her stories focus on everything from business to health, the environment, lifestyle and travel. She’s contributed to four travel guides including…

Pidgorna, Maria

Pierce, E. Alex

Sable River

Pietropaolo, Vincenzo

Caroline Pignat is the two-time Governor Generalʼs Award winning author of seven highly acclaimed novels. She writes contemporary YA, historical fiction, and free verse novels that dig into her characters through multiple forms and points of view. Back in high school, …

Pihac, Branko

Mississauga

Branko

Pihac

Mississauga

Canadian writer with Croatian heritage, Branko graduated radio-communications from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb with honors. His earliest stories appeared in the SF magazine SIRIUS when he was still a student. He was the owner of a small business, designing control…

Pike, Lisa

Lisa

Pike

*/ Lisa Pike was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied in France, worked in Italy, and completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New Quarterly, Exile, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations:…