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Cayley, Kate
Toronto
Kate
Cayley
Toronto
Kate Cayley has published two collection of short stories, two collections of poetry, and a young adult novel, and written a number of plays, both traditional and experimental, which have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She is a former playwright in residence…
CD, MIHAELA
LONGUEUIL
MIHAELA
CD
LONGUEUIL
ABOUT THE WRITER MIHAELA CD Mihaela CD was born in Romania. She emigrated to Canada many  years ago with her family and settled in Montreal.She always loved poetry, painting and music but she really started writing poetry books after a strong shock, when she lost her…
Cédric, Paco
quebec
Paco
Cédric
quebec
Paco Cédric is an independent, self-published author. He is a craftsman of words and a creator of resonant stories. Through captivating narratives, he brings to life a multitude of voices, characters, and faces from elsewhere, rooted in memory and embodying the struggles,…
Cesca , Stephanie
Toronto
Stephanie
Cesca
Toronto
Stephanie Cesca is a writer and editor living in Toronto. A former journalist in both Canada and Europe, she holds an English degree from Western University, a journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Certificate of Creative Writing from the University of…
Chaiton, Sam
Toronto
Sam
Chaiton
Toronto
Sam Chaiton is a Toronto author and playwright, a dancer and long-time social justice advocate. His first book, co-authored with Terry Swinton, was the international non-fiction bestseller Lazarus and the Hurricane, which became a basis for the Norman Jewison film The…
Chakraborty, Aashisha
Toronto
Aashisha
Chakraborty
Toronto
Aashisha is an introverted thrill-seeker who takes weird leaps of faith and moonlights as a brand strategist and content marketing professional. Technically she has degrees in engineering and business, but she identifies better as a chaos chaser, dream spinner and a passport-…
Champagne, Lyse
Ottawa
Lyse
Champagne
Ottawa
Lyse Champagne's short story collection, The Light That Remains, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed LIterary Award for best first short story collection.  The stories are set in Turkey, Ukraine, China, France, Cambodia and Rwanda and chronicle the lives of six…
Chan, Marty
Edmonton
Marty
Chan
Edmonton
Marty Chan writes books for kids and plays for adults. His hit comedy play Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl toured across Canada and finished with an Off Broadway production in 2004. His middle-grade novels have won over reluctant readers. The Mystery of the…
Chan, Gillian
Gillian
Chan
Gillian Chan was born in England and came to Canada in 1990. A graduate of the University of East Anglia, she taught in high schools for ten years and wrote in secret. Her move to Canada gave her the impetus to write full-time.
Chandler, Andrea
Ottawa
Andrea
Chandler
Ottawa
Andrea Chandler is a retired political science professor. She is the author of five books, including Canada and Eastern Europe 1945-1991: Meeting in the Middle  (Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2024).  Her most recent book, Fomenting Friendship:…
Chang, Janie
Vancouver
Chang, Su
Su
Chang
Su Chang is a fiction writer with a debut novel (The Immortal Woman) forthcoming from House of Anansi in March 2025. An earlier draft was long-listed for the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest, and a semifinalist at SheWritesPress' STEP Prize. It has received praise…
Chang-Richardson, Ellen
Ottawa
Ellen
Chang-Richardson
Ottawa
East Asian femme-presenting writer looking at camera and smiling with shoulder length brown hair with blonde tips and white contemporary-style glasses, wearing a white shirt with large gold pineapple print on a sky blue background.
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet, hybrid genre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. Co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, they are an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine, and Room…
Chapman, Susan
Toronto
Susan
Chapman
Toronto
Susan Chapman has been a teacher-librarian and a primary teacher in Toronto and in Markham, Ontario. She has also taught teacher-librarians in East Africa, and worked for a summer in the library in Harrods Dept. Store in London, England. She was inspired to write TOO MUCH…
Chapman, Brenda
Charach, Ron
Toronto
Ron
Charach
Toronto
After 10 books of poetry for adults, a satirical novel that foretold the rise of a Trump/Musk world, and literally hundreds of published letters in Canadian and American newspapers, Ron is now a children's author. His most recent kids' book is a re-imagining of the English…
Chariandy, David
Charles, Ruthie
Charles, Veronika
Toronto, ON
Veronika
Charles
Toronto, ON
Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…
Charleson, Karen
TOFINO
Karen
Charleson
TOFINO
Karen Charleson is a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and an educator. Her first novel Through Different Eyes was published by Signature Editions in 2017.  Karen is a member, through marriage, of the Hesquiaht First Nation and the House of Kinquashtakumtlth. She lives in…
Chaudhuri, Prad
Chauncey, Sarah
Chayko, J.G.
Vancouver
J.G.
Chayko
Vancouver
J.G. Chayko is a writer from Vancouver B.C. who has published poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.She is a contributing writer to three anthologies and has several short works in print and online. Her work has appeared in Event Magazine, Canadian Stories, Hastings Literary…
Cheinis, Efim
Chen, J.L.
Vancouver
J.L.
Chen
Vancouver
J.L. Chen is a Chinese Canadian poet/writer based in Vancouver. Her work appears in Grain, Mantis (Stanford), Canadian Literature, PRISM, Tupelo Quarterly, West Trade Review, Queen's Quarterly, and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, and…