Born and raised on the wrong side of the tracks, teacher, author and screenwriter Sara de Waard uses her past to create present and future pieces that comfort, inspire and entertain a wide range of audiences. She hopes to always find ways to give back to her heritage,…

Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph's Creative Writing MFA program and teaches Creative Writing at Selkirk College. Her previous publications include Waiting for the Cyclone, nominated for the 2017 Trillium and ReLit Awards, and the poetry chapbook The Desert of…

Michael Dean is a writer living in Toronto. He has been a performance artist and sound poet, having performed across Canada and in Europe. He is one of the founding editors of the writers’ press Underwhich Editions, and was a guest-lecturer at the University of Toronto from 1996…

Nitin Deckha is the author of a collection of short stories, Shopping for Sabzi (2008) and has recently self-published his novel, The Real Estate of Things (2015). His fiction has been published in magazines, edited collections, and chapbooks and he has read his work across…

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ann Decter moved to Toronto to study, and after sojourns elsewhere--New York City, rural Nova Scotia--settled into Toronto's vibrant women's writing and publishing community. She has a B.A. in history and an M.Ed. in philosophy and over a…

AN INDIAN SAHIT AKEDEMI NATIONAL AWARD WINNING POET OF PANJABI LANGUAGE...2007 POET Lauriate Panjab Government..2009  AROUND 20 BOOKS AT WRITER'S CREDIT INCLUDING POETRY,PROSE AND TRANSLATIONS. IA KNOWN BROADCASTER OF PANJABI MEDIA. SERVED INDIAN BROADCASTING SERVICES (LIKE…

Kelli Deeth’s acclaimed second collection, The Other Side of Youth, published by Arsenal Press, was short-listed for a ReLit Award. Kelli Deeth’s acclaimed first story collection, The Girl Without Anyone, published by HarperCollins, was chosen as one of The Globe and Mail’s Best…

Jan DeGrass writes in Sechelt, British Columbia, where she is former editor of Sunshine Coast Life magazine. She assists other authors with constructive critique (jandegrass.com.) and by her involvement with the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society. She has received a…

Renny deGroot was born in Nova Scotia, Canada; a first-generation Canadian of Dutch parents. Her debut novel, Family Business, was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. She has two other Historical Fiction; with her novel Torn Asunder, published in 2019, receiving…

Shirley was born in Calgary, and as an "army brat" travelled and lived in many places.  She worked in Calgary as a Corporate Administrator and Estates and Wills paralegal for over forty years. She retired in 2007 and moved with her husband Don to their "cabin in the woods"…

John Delacourt is an Ottawa writer whose fiction has appeared in numerous publications in Canada and the U.S. . His criticism and commentary have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, the Rover, the Ottawa Review of Books, Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Life. He studied at the…

Jennifer DeLeskie (she/her) lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work has appeared in Exile Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere, and been nominated for the Carter v. Cooper Exile Award (CVC10) and the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. She is…

I was born in Durham City UK, then attended the University of London, and studied psychology before becoming a teacher and moving to Winnipeg I studied Advanced Creative writing with Pulitzer prizewinning author, Dr. Carol Shields, then became a professional novelist and…

"A master of bowel-loosening terror" (Globe & Mail), David Demchuk has been writing for stage, print and other media for more than forty years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel…

Kristen den Hartog is a novelist and non-fiction writer whose novels have won the Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year and been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Award. She is the co-author (with her sister Tracy Kasaboski) of two non-fiction books: The…

K.L. Denman began writing Young Adult fiction after reading the books of some talented authors and discovering the wonders of this fascinating genre. Her own children were teens at the time and between them, their friends, and her own memories, inspiration was plentiful.  She…

From Montreal,living in Edmonton since 1993, Dolly Dennis is a published author whose work has appeared on stage, in literary journals, newspapers, corporate newsletters, anthologies and the CBC. She has also been on the short-list for an Alberta literary Award. Her first novel…

Anne Denoon was born long ago in Toronto. She studied art history at the University of Toronto in the 1960s, and again in the late 1970s, finally completing her degree in 1980. In the 1960s she worked at a travel agency in London, England, as a gallerina at the Carmen Lamanna…

Brian d'Eon's writing pursuits have been forged largely in the fires of live theatre where, for thirty years, he has participated, as an actor, director and playwright. Four of his stage plays have been produced locally and one in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In recent years, Brian…