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Gallander, Benj

Toronto

Benj

Gallander

Toronto

Benj Gallander ran away to work in the Middle East, France and Czechoslovakia, but amidst betwixt and between, wrote a best-seller and six plays and a poetry book which is a left-right hemisphere link-up and started the SummerWorks Theatre Festival and his works sold in Austria…

Gallant , Joanne

Halifax

Joanne

Gallant

Halifax

Joanne Gallant is a writer and nurse living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her debut book, A Womb in the Shape of a Heart (Nimbus Publishing), won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction. She is currently the President of the Board of Directors for…

Regina

Regina

David Gane is one half of the internationally award-winning writing team of Counios & Gane. Besides being a writer, David is an occasional scriptwriting teacher and stay-at-home dad. Counios & Gane are the proud recipients of the 2017 First Book Award with…

Gane, Lorraine

Lorraine

Gane

Lorraine Gane was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. In the mid-seventies she graduated from Carleton University’s Honours Journalism Program, then worked as a full-time writer and editor for major Canadian newspapers and magazines until 1989, when she began…

Garbutt, Loretta

Toronto

Loretta

Garbutt

Toronto

Loretta developed a real love for picture books while working as a storyteller, bookseller and reviewer at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore in Toronto. Very thrilled to be putting books into the hands of tomorrow’s big readers, she felt it was time to write a few stories of her own.…

Gardiner, Elee

Vancouver

Elee

Gardiner

Vancouver

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on…

Garrett, Leslie

Garvie, Maureen (McCallum)

Kingston

Maureen (McCallum)

Garvie

Kingston

Maureen Garvie grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to New Zealand in 1971. Returning to Canada in 1983, she worked as a writer and editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She has taught writing and editing at Queen's University and is an editor for the Journal of British…

Gaston Davidson, Lise

Vancouver

Gatchalian, C.E.

Toronto

C.E.

Gatchalian

Toronto

Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (colonially known as “Vancouver”), now based in Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian (he/him/his) is a Filipino diasporic queer author, editor, playwright, dramaturge, teacher and…

Gateley, Kate

Cowichan Bay

Kate

Gateley

Cowichan Bay

Kate currently lives, and writes, on a small farm in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, with her amazing husband, two incredible sons, an adorable dog, several barn cats who don’t earn their keep, a gaggle of geese, and some decidedly ungrateful chickens ……

Gatenby, Greg

Toronto

Greg

Gatenby

Toronto

Greg Gatenby was born in Toronto in 1950. He received a B.A. in English from York University in 1972. From 1973-1975, he was an editor at McClelland & Stewart. Since then, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the International…

Gates, Michael

Whitehorse

Michael

Gates

Whitehorse

Michael was born and raised in Alberta, where he received a B.A. in Archaeology in 1970. He later earned an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the State University of New York in 1988. He was curator of collections for Klondike National Historic Sites in Dawson City…

Gauer, Kathleen

Toronto

Kathleen

Gauer

Toronto

Toronto children's author, Kathleen Gauer, has published HIGH IN THE SKY (2015), FOR NO REASON (2017), THE WISH CARVERS (2019), BATHTIME FUN! (2021), as well as poetry and magazine and newspaper articles. Kathleen worked as a contributing associate editor for a Toronto…

Gaughan, Laura Rock

Lakefield

Laura Rock

Gaughan

Lakefield

Laura Rock Gaughan's first book, a short fiction collection called Motherish, was published in 2018 by Turnstone Press. Her fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. After long stints in Washington, DC…

Gawthrop, Daniel

New Westminster

Daniel

Gawthrop

New Westminster

Daniel Gawthrop was born in Nanaimo in 1963 and grew up there. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Victoria and a Journalism diploma at the University of King’s College, Halifax, he began his career as a newspaper reporter for the Hope Standard and…

Gayle, Brenda

Ottawa

Brenda

Gayle

Ottawa

I come from a family of professional writers, so I was very familiar with the challenges of writing for myself at the same time as writing for work. Nevertheless, I ignored my father’s advice, pursued a degree in Journalism, and spent my career in corporate communications for…

Gaylie, Veronica

Vancouver

Veronica

Gaylie

Vancouver

Veronica Gaylie is a writer and teacher from Vancouver. Her first published literary book is Sword Dance (Exile) and she’s published two books of environmental writing. An award winning educator, Veronica’s taught in schools and universities and lead writing workshops in…

Geddes, Gary

Thetis Island

Gary

Geddes

Thetis Island

Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940. He completed a doctorate at University of Toronto and has taught at various institutions in Canada and abroad, including Western Washington University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture. Geddes has written…

Gentile, Leslie

Brentwood Bay

Leslie

Gentile

Brentwood Bay

Leslie’s debut middle-grade novel Elvis, Me and The Lemonade Stand Summer won the Victoria Children’s Book Prize, The Jean Little First-Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for ten other awards, including The Washington State Library Award 2025. Her second novel, Shamus The…

George, Mia Amelia

Mia Amelia

George

Mia Herrera’s short stories, feature articles, and reviews have appeared in various online and print publications like CG Monthly, Live in Limbo, Side Street Review, Hart House Review, and TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 7. She graduated from the University of Toronto…

Gereaux, Tara

Regina

Tara

Gereaux

Regina

Tara Gereaux (Métis-Settler) has published a novel, Saltus (Nightwood Editions, 2021) and a teen novella, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press, 2015), both of which have been nominated for several Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her writing’s been shortlisted for the…

Ghan, Ben Berman

Calgary

Ben Berman

Ghan

Calgary

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024)—Silver Winner of the Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction, and Longlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. He is also author…

Ghatage, Shree

Shree

Ghatage

Shree Ghatage was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1983. Her collection of short stories set in Bombay, India and entitled Awake When All the World is Asleep was published in 1997. Currently she is working on a novel.