Jeff Pinkney is a settler who splits his time living in Baden, Ontario (the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenodaunee peoples) and in Haliburton, Ontario (the traditional territory collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations). Jeff is a…

Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here (The Word Works, 2016), Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets (Mawenzi House, 2019) and How Beautiful People Are (Gordon Hill Press, 2022). His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Guest 16. Ayaz’s…

Mariam Pirbhai is a creative writer and academic. She is the author of a book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), Winner of the 2024 Sarton Women's Book Award for nonfiction,  Honourable…

Pearl Pirie is a poet living in rural Quebec just outside of Ottawa. She has 4 trade collections out and a couple dozen chapbooks. She is a haikuist and generalist poet. She has run a small press since 2011. Her poetry has been published since 1991. She has written full time…

Steve Pitt has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 1980 he won the top Periodical Distributors Author’s Award for humour with a groundhog recipe article that was published in…

Kim Pittaway is the co-author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement, which the New York Times called “riveting and propulsive,” and, with Dr. Samra Zafar, of Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future. She is a…

Jaclyn Piudik is the author of The Dark Oar [English translations of Paul Celan's French self-translations] (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017), Seduction: Out of Eden, written collaboratively with Janet R. Kirchheimer (Kelsay Books, 2022),…

Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.

Monique Polak combines a busy life as a children's book author, freelance journalist and CEGEP teacher. She is the author of 29 books for young adults. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, renamed the QWF's…

Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of thirteen books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada, and two novels. His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.…

C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the CBC Canada Reads finalist The Midnight Bargain and the Nebula-winning, USA Today bestseller Even Though I Knew The End.…

Janet S. Pollock is a multi-genre writer and educator living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes fiction, poetry, essays, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Exploring topics such as the natural world, grief and loss, relationships, and…

Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is from the North Shore region of Quebec, spent many years in Montreal, and now lives in Rimouski. She is a poet, a cultural mediator, and an emerging textile artist (embroidery, weaving loom). She published two adult poetry books, Brasser le varech (…

During his career in the dental industry, Peter Pontsa authored numerous techno-clinical articles published in various dental journals and served as an associate publisher for a denturist magazine.After retiring, Peter turned his focus to creative writing, completing an Advanced…

Pamela Porter is the author of ten collections of poetry, two verse novels, and a novel and picture book for children. Her poetry collection, Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and her poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism…

Author of Peggy Lee's Delicious Lips (Quattro Books), and numerous novels and books of poetry, Harry is the Poet Laureate of Dufferin County and host of The Sill podcast (www.thesillpodcast.com). He teaches creative writing in the Caledon area, and offers editing services…

J. Jacob Potashnik spent much of his youth traveling and working in hotels and restaurants learning to cook but discovered he didn't have the back for it. Instead, Jacob studied communications and cinema and spent many years in film and television production. In 1996 Denys…

Tradeswoman, artist, writer, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly two-spirited Métis, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (Spring 2022)Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss (2009…