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Sable River
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, Caroline…
Mississauga
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…
*/ 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:…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is On Huron’s Shore (Demeter Press), five collections of poetry, one chapbook, Estrangement (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2017), and is the editor of a…
Haliburton and Baden
Haliburton and Baden
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 new…
Waterloo
Waterloo
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), Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Nonfiction/Nature writing and…
Rutherglen
Rutherglen
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…
Toronto
Toronto
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), and…
Peterborough
Peterborough
Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Vancouver
Vancouver
Emily Pohl-Weary is the author of eight books, a play, and a girl pirate comic. Her latest young adult novel, How to Be Found, features a “grittier Nancy Drew” (Toronto Star) and “captures the angst and drama of teen life” (Zoomer). The Witch’s Circle, her 40-minute audio play,…
Montreal
Montreal
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…
Montréal
Montréal
Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is originally from the North Shore region of Quebec province and lives in Montreal. She is a poet, a literacy facilitator, a cultural mediator, and an embroiderer. A feminist and socially engaged citizen, she is actively involved in projects that…
Yellowknife
Yellowknife
I stumbled into a writing career when I made a stop in Hay River, NWT, in January, 1979, during a cross-Canada hitchhiking journey. I had all my worldly possessions in a knapsack on my back, was broke and in need of a job. This materialized as soon as the publisher of the Hay…
Sidney, BC
Sidney, BC
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…