Carolyn is an elementary teacher who loves to visit other schools to share her love of reading and writing. She lives in Breslau, Ontario with her husband and two children. Her debut picture book, The Little Boy Who Lived Down the Drain, was a 2018 Blue Spruce Honour Book, and…

Phyllis Humby and her husband retired to the municipality of Lambton Shores, Ontario, where she continues to indulge her passion for writing. From 2012 to 2022 she penned a humorous monthly column, Up Close and Personal, for First Monday magazine. In addition to her column, she’…

Margaret Anne Hume, a former librarian at Concordia University in Montreal, received her education from the universities of New Brunswick and McGill. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she spent most of her early growing-up years in Moncton, New Brunswick, and was an adoring young…

  Bruce Hunter was born in Calgary, Alberta but has lived for the past thirty years in Southern Ontario. Currently, he lives in Thornhill, Ontario. His novel, In the Bear's House, won the 2009 Canadian Rockies prize at he Banff Mountain Book Festival. His memoir essay “This is …

Catherine Hunter is a poet and novelist. Her short story "Calling You," published in Prairie Fire in 2020, won a Gold National Magazine Award. Her books with Signature Editions include the poetry collections St. Boniface Elegies, 2019 (winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry…

Crystal Hurdle grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and Victoria, BC, where she obtained a BA and MA in English Literature, as well as certification for teaching high school students and English as a Second Language. Since 1985, with her husband, she has made her home in North Vancouver…

Mustahid Husain is the author of Double Truths, his debut novel in English.  Mustahid studied business at University of Arizona and earned his doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia, where he’s recognized as a Future Alumnus. Before…

Dr. Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on world religions. His own particular speciality is the study of Islam, focusing on contemporary Muslim societies in North America. His academic degrees…

            Author of over 50 titles for children of all ages, Hazel's pictures books and novels for young people have been published in Canada and the U. S. by Annick, Scholastic, Orca, Formac, Viking and Oxford U.K. and appear in various translations in many interesting…

Born in Montreal, Chris Hutchinson is the author of four previous poetry books as well as the speculative autobiography-in-verse novel Jonas in Frames (Goose Lane Editions). His next poetry collection, Lost Signal, will appear in the fall of 2025 thanks to Palimpsest Press.…

 Short story, The Killing Room, TBP by At Bay Press, Winnipeg. Picture book, Finding Moufette, TBP Oct 2023. Novella, Heads I Win Tails You Lose, TBP March 2024, AOS Publishing.  Juvenile time-travel novel, Jason and the Wonderhorn (Fogbound Through Time Book 1) now available as…

Elio Iannacci is an award-winning writer, poet and a long-time arts reporter for The Globe and Mail. He has written for more than 80 publications, contributing to periodicals such as Maclean's, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Hollywood Reporter and The Toronto Review of…

Roy Innes comes from a family of Canadian pioneers — prairie sod-busters in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He was born in Regina, but grew up in Victoria, B.C. where he attended high school and junior college. Fine arts were his first love but the world of science lured him away for…

A University of Toronto graduate, Susan Ioannou has published numerous literary articles, short stories, two children's novels, several poetry collections, and a nonfiction study on writing poetry. For many years she led creative writing workshops for the Toronto Board of…

Kevin Irie is a third generation Japanese-Canadian who was born and raised in Toronto where he received his M.A. from the University of Toronto. His work has appeared both here and abroad in the U.K., the States, Germany, and Australia and has also been translated into Spanish,…

Richard Irving received a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1981and joined the Schulich School of Business at York University in 1984. He was a tenured Associate Professor who taught and conducted research on information systems and project management until his retirement…