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Toronto
Toronto
  Hugh Brewster has written 15 books for young readers and adults beginning with Anastasia’s Album (1996) which won both the Silver Birch and Red Cedar Awards. On Juno Beach won the Information Book Award in 2005 and At Vimy Ridge was a Norma Fleck Award winner…
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Colin Brezicki A graduate of Western and Oxford University, I spent my career teaching and directing in England and Canada. I turned to writing when I retired in 2012. I've published two novels, “A Case for Dr. Palindrome”, and “All That Remains”(recently a finalist in the…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Rae St. Clair Bridgman is an award-winning Winnipeg author and illustrator of children’s books, including several picture books and the mythical MiddleGate Books. She has a knack for finding the magical and extraordinary in the ordinary, in between the cracks of reality. Rae is…
Toronto
Toronto
Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. In her fiction, she is drawn to writing about whimsy, fleeting moments, and the small secrets of interior lives. Her creative nonfiction bends genres, makes quirky connections and highlights social justice themes—quietly. “…
Whitehorse (traditional territories of Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwach'an Council)
North Vancouver
North Vancouver
I've been in the word biz for four decades as a journalist, editor and author. I was editor-in-chief of Western Living magazine in the '80s and '90s, then feature columnist for The Vancouver Sun while freelancing for national magazines.  I've had three non-fiction books…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Carellin Brooks served as the BC/Yukon regional representative on TWUC National Council (2013-2015). She was born in Vancouver and has lived in Ottawa, Montreal, New York, Oxford and London, UK, San Diego, Seattle, Japan, and Salt Lake City, Utah. She has a BA from McGill and a…
Perth
Perth
Brenda Brooks was born in Rivers, Manitoba, and grew up in various locales across the country. She graduated from York University in Toronto, and worked for many years at the Canadian Press. She now lives in Perth, Ontario, where she is working on a novel and poetry…
Halifax
Halifax
Gina Brown has written three novels: Pickled in Love (2025), The Sugar Bowl Feud (2024) and Lucy McGee’s Moment of Truth ( 2021). She also served as editor and publisher for a memoir written by Robert Crockett.A graduate of Mt. St. Vincent University, she pursued a career as a…
Kingston
Kingston
Dorothyanne Brown, BNSc, MSc, former RN, is writer, editor, and occasional fibre artist. Her three children and their partners (and grandchild) are far away, so she lives instead with a recently adopted huge orange cat named Norm. She had to retire in 2008 due to multiple…
Author, geographer, and photographer, Ron Brown has, since 1963, photographed and written on Canada's vanishing historic landscapes--telling the story of Canada through its ghost towns and railway relics. His research on railway stations takes his readers back to when trains…
Toronto
Toronto
Yvonne Brown (Yvonne Shorter Brown) is a retired teacher and university lecturer. She is an independent researcher and writer on subjects pertaining to the socio-political and economic transformations in post-emancipation Jamaica; and the status of African/Black people in the…
Toronto
Toronto
NONFICTIONI Am a Pedestrian, A Survivor's Guide to Walking around Toronto, or, A Love Letter to WalkingOn Toronto Train BridgesColour Me Jazz, The Archie Alleyne Story50 Toronto Hidden Gems & CuriositiesThe Bottletree; founder, publisher & editor of defunct satirical ‘…
Robert’s Creek, BC
Robert’s Creek, BC
Brown has just completed “God is a Gun”, a novel set in Canada in 1967. She is also currently researching and writing a non-fiction book: “The Silver Bowl: Family and Empire”. It follows the exploits of, dozens of Northern Irish farmer’s sons – all related to one another – who…
Toronto
Toronto
Christene A. Browne originally from St. Kitts is a well-respected and internationally acclaimed Toronto independent filmmaker and was the first Black woman to direct a feature film in Canada. In 2011 she was awarded the Visionary award by the Women's International Film &…
Fredericton
Fredericton
Living near a lake or river or ocean has been key to living a good life, and writing good work. The Kennebecasis, the Saint John, The Rideau and for a short spell the Burrard Inlet have been home.  I recently returned to Fredericton; have happily skated on Killarney Lake.…
Maureen Brownlee (1960- ) is a Canadian fiction writer. She is the author of two novels: Cambium Blue (Harbour Publishing, 2022) and Loggers’ Daughters (Oolichan Books, 2013). Born and raised on the western slope of the northern Rocky Mountains, Maureen has lived and worked in…
San Francisco, California (Montreal, QC)
San Francisco, California (Montreal, QC)
JULIE BRUCK is from Montreal and has lived in San Francisco since 1997. Her  fourth and most recent collection is How to Avoid Huge Ships (Brick Books, 2018).  Her poems have appeared in Plume, The New Yorker, The Walrus, Poetry Daily, and The Academy of American Poets…
Halifax
Halifax
Carol Bruneau is the author of ten books: six novels, three short fiction collections, and one work of nonfiction. She has an MA in Canadian Literature from Dalhousie University, and an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as a journalist and photo…
Calgary
Calgary
Ali Bryan is an award-winning novelist and creative nonfiction writer who explores the what-ifs, the wtfs and the wait-a-minutes of every day. Her work has been shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net, longlisted…