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Baxter, Joan

Joan

Baxter

Joan Baxter is an award-winning author and journalist, international development researcher/writer, and anthropologist. Her 2017 book, "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest," that delves into the suffering caused by the Pictou pulp mill in Nova Scotia and the enormous power…

Toronto

Surrey

Surrey

Jeff Beamish is a fiction writer, former journalist and author of the new novel, No, You're Crazy. His previous novel, Sneaker Wave, was shortlisted in 2014 for a national fiction award in Canada. He has had short fiction published in four literary journals, The Nonconformist…

Beasley, David Richard

Simcoe

David Richard

Beasley

Simcoe

David Richard Beasley lives in Simcoe Ontario. Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. He has written…

Beauchemin, Raymond

Hamilton

Raymond

Beauchemin

Hamilton

Raymond Beauchemin is the author of two traditionally published works of fiction, the novel "Everything I Own" (Toronto: Guernica 2011) and the novella collection "The Emptiest Quarter" (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2023). His play "What We Talk About When We Talk About Trump"…

Beaulieu, Derek

Banff

Derek

Beaulieu

Banff

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published…

Becker, Helaine

Toronto

Helaine

Becker

Toronto

Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults. A Porcupine in a Pine Tree was the #1 Canadian National Bestseller and received the Libris Picture Book of the Year Award from the C.B.A; the sequel, Dashing through the Snow,…

Joliette

Joliette

Lea Beddia is a writer for young adults, a high school English teacher, storyteller and mom of three. Her debut novel, Take Off! from Rebel Mountain Press combines action, drama and humor to tell a story of Marisa, an aviation cadet with a dream of becoming a pilot. Take Off!…

Bedell, Sean Paul

Dartmouth

Sean Paul

Bedell

Dartmouth

Author of the novels Shoebox and Somewhere There’s Music, Sean Paul Bedell has been writing and publishing for more than 30 years. A longtime paramedic and captain with the fire service, Sean lives with his wife Lisa and golden retriever, Maggie, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia…

Beeby, Dean

OTTAWA

Dean

Beeby

OTTAWA

Dean Beeby is an investigative journalist and author of five non-fiction books, including Murder in Renfrew County: The predator who left three women dead and the justice system that failed to stop him (Lorimer). Since 1983, he has worked for The Canadian Press and the CBC…

Beiser, Vince

Vancouver

Vince

Beiser

Vancouver

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author based in Vancouver. His first book, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization was a finalist for a PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and a California Book Award. You can learn the…

Lunenburg

Lunenburg

John Bell is a Lunenburg-based author and editor specializing in Canadian history, literature, and popular culture. A former editor of the poetry magazine Arc, John has contributed to The Literary Review of Canada, Event, This Magazine, Canadian Literature, and many other…

Bell, Wade

Calgary

Wade

Bell

Calgary

Wade Bell's website is www.wadebell.ca His newest story collection is Tracie's Revenge. Governor General's Award winning writer Robert Hilles said of it: "In this stunning book, Wade Bell writes on the level of Raymond Carver and Roberto Bolano. He knows…

Bell, Roger

Bellehumeur-Allatt, Tanya

Belusic, Doris

Victoria

Doris

Belusic

Victoria

Doris Belusic is a poet, nonfiction writer, and editor of The Blind Canadian magazine. She received her BA in writing from UVic in 2019 as a blind, mature student. Her biggest thrill was having her first book published, I Am Blind (Beech Street Books, 2024), a children's grade 3…

Toronto

Toronto

Award-winning freelance writer and book author Lisa Bendall grew up near Ottawa and was educated at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in many of Canada's top magazines such as Reader’s Digest and Zoomer. Lisa often writes on health and family topics, and has…

Burlington

Toronto

Toronto

Gail Benick is a writer and educator.. Her debut novel, The Girl Who Was Born That Way, was published by Inanna Publications and Education in 2015. Benick earned ann M. Phil. from the City University of New York and an M.Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in…

Bennett, Carolyn

Brockville/Toronto

Carolyn

Bennett

Brockville/Toronto

Writer and comedian Carolyn Bennett cut her teeth performing at Yuk Yuks and hasn't stopped bleeding since. Selected TV credits include This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC COMICS, Chilly Beach and The NHL Awards. Produced radio plays include Mixed Media, …

Bennett, Jo Anne

Jo Anne

Bennett

Jo Anne Williams Bennett was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied in New York and at Cambridge, in the U.K. An anthropologist among other things, she has spent substantial amounts of time in Ghana, West Africa. She also lived for many years in the U.K. She works as an…

Benson, Eugene

Eugene

Benson

Eugene Benson is a Canadian citizen born in Northern Ireland in 1928. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Guelph. He married Renate Niklaus in 1968 and…