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Lavoie, Chantel

Kingston

Chantel

Lavoie

Kingston

Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published three books of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012); Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2022) and This is About Angels, Women, and Men (2022),…

Laws, Robin

Toronto

Robin

Laws

Toronto

Robin D. Laws writes novels, short stories, web serials, a comic strip, and has contributed to a variety of new media projects. He was recently named Creative Director of a new fiction imprint, Stone Skin Press. His blog is a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative…

Lawson, Julie

Victoria, BC

Julie

Lawson

Victoria, BC

Julie Lawson was born in Victoria, B.C. and graduated from the University of Victoria with an Honours B.A. in French. She lived and taught in France, travelled extensively, and settled in rural East Sooke on Vancouver Island. She taught elementary school for 18 years. She now…

Lax, Sharon

Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka

Sharon

Lax

Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka

Sharon Lax is a teacher and author. Her collection of short stories, Shattered Fossils (2020), is available through Guernica Editions. She is ever grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts’ assistance in developing her latest collection of poetry that explores the loss we’re…

Layland, Michael

VICTORIA

Michael

Layland

VICTORIA

An award-winning writer on the history of exploration and cartography, and on history of natural historyof Vancouver Island. Resident in Victoria, B.C. For details please see website

NORTH VANCOUVER

NORTH VANCOUVER

Eve Lazarus is a reporter and author and she hosts and produces the Cold Case Canada true crime podcast. Her books include the BC bestsellers Cold Case BC; Murder by Milkshake; Sensational Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City's Hidden History. Her latest…

Lazowski, Anna

Winnipeg

Anna

Lazowski

Winnipeg

Anna Lazowski wrote her first picture book for a class assignment in the sixth grade and has been creating stories ever since. Now an award-winning senior producer at CBC Radio, Anna has an MA (Journalism) from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA (Hons.) from the…

Lazurko, Anne

Weyburn

Anne

Lazurko

Weyburn

Anne Lazurko is an award-winning author, a no-awards farmer, and sometime poet. Her novel, What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press, 2022) received the Sask Book Awards Fiction Award and was shortlisted for both Book of the Year and the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award.…

Le Bel, Pauline

Bowen Island

Pauline

Le Bel

Bowen Island

Pauline has been spinning songs and stories ever since she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Voice in 1975 from the University of Alberta. She is an award-winning screenwriter, award-winning novelist, a playwright, journalist, editor, recently published poet, and…

Leach, Sara

Whistler

Sara

Leach

Whistler

Sara Leach is the author of nine books for children, including her most recent book, Duck Days. Its companion book, Slug Days, was a finalist for a Foreword Indie Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Penguin Days was a Bank Street Best…

Leatherdale, Mary Beth

Leavey, Peggy

Trenton, ON

Peggy

Leavey

Trenton, ON

Born in Toronto, Peggy Dymond Leavey received her formal education in nine different schools between Winnipeg and Fort Chambly, Quebec. Today she lives near Trenton, Ontario with her husband. She has three grown children.A love of local history led to many freelance articles,…

Calgary

Calgary

Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. She was the Managing Editor at Canthius from 2022-2025. Amy’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) was long listed for the 2021…

LeBlanc, Judy

Fanny Bay

Judy

LeBlanc

Fanny Bay

Judy LeBlanc's most recent book is a memoir, Permission to Land, published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2024. This follows The Broken Heart of Winter, her debut novel also published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2023. A collection of short stories was published by…

Leck, James

Dartmouth

James

Leck

Dartmouth

James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1973. At the time his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed. Besides working as a teacher in Canada, Japan and Kuwait he enjoys travelling. He has had the good fortune to visit…

Leckie, Dale

Calgary

Dale

Leckie

Calgary

Dale's two books have both been extended best sellers. His recent book, The Scenic Geology of Alberta: A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide, has topped the best seller lists across the province since it came out in April. Dale’s first book Rocks, Ridges, and…

Lecuyer, Joanne

Gatineau

Joanne

Lecuyer

Gatineau

Joanne Lecuyer is an independent author of children's books. Since 2010, Joanne has channeled her love of magic, fairies, elves, witches, dragons, and even vampires into positive fantasy chapters and picture books for kids and the young at heart. Her stories are full of…

Lee, Sheun

Windsor

Sheun

Lee

Windsor

Sheun Lee, a clinical pharmacist with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, is also an accomplished children’s picture book author writing in Cantonese, English, French, and Mandarin. Hailing from Canada and a heritage Cantonese speaker,…

Lee, David

HAMILTON

David

Lee

HAMILTON

As of 2022 David Neil Lee is finishing up his YA "Midnight Games" trilogy, all published by Poplar Press/Wolsak & Wynn: The Midnight Games (2015), The Medusa Deep (2021) and The Great Outer Dark (2022). This year his Véhicule book Stopping Time: Paul Bley…

Lee, Y S

Kingston

Y S

Lee

Kingston

Y S Lee’s debut picture book, Mrs. Nobody (Groundwood Books), is inspired by a real-life imaginary friend who lived at her house for two very dramatic years. Her fiction includes The Agency tetralogy (Candlewick Press), which was translated into six languages and won the…

Lee, Dennis

Dennis

Lee

Dennis Lee was born in 1939 in Toronto, where he writes full time. Known for adult and children's poetry, as a song lyricist, and a literary editor.

Lee, Edward Y. C.

Toronto

Edward Y. C.

Lee

Toronto

Edward Y. C. Lee was born in Montreal. He is a former arbitrator and lawyer. His fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and in various literary magazines. His radio documentary, Tiger Balm and Batman Comics, was produced by…

Lee, Day's

Brossard

Day's

Lee

Brossard

Day’s Lee wrote the script for her first documentary about her family’s Chinese-Canadian restaurant entitled Meet and Eat at Lee’s Garden for which she was also producer and director. It premiered on the CBC program Absolutely Canadian on November 14, 2020. The documentary is…