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Pearson, Debora

Pearson, Kit

Kit

Pearson

Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and acquired degrees in English, Librarianship and Children's Literature before she finally began writing childrens novels. She lives in Victoria, B.C. with her partner Katherine Farris and two lively dogs.

Peck, Frances

North Vancouver

Frances

Peck

North Vancouver

Frances Peck wrote fiction and poetry until her early twenties, when the realities of adulthood and rent steered her toward a career as a ghostwriter, editor and instructor. As a professional wordsmith, Frances worked with clients and authors to make their material as polished…

Toronto

Gatineau

Gatineau

Jon Peirce is a labour and social historian, essayist, playwright, fiction-writer and memoirist who lives and writes in Gatineau, Quebec. In 2011, he retired from an eleven-year career as a labour relations officer and researcher with the Professional Institute of the Public…

Pejvack, Nasreen

Vancouver

Nasreen

Pejvack

Vancouver

Nasreen Pejvack is a published author, with her novel “Amity” published by Inanna Publications, on October 15th 2015. Soon after, Amity was shortlisted for BC’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Book Prize. Aside from her successful novel Amity, Nasreen has published four…

Pelaez, Abby

Vancouver

Abby

Pelaez

Vancouver

Abby Pelaez writes about diaspora, anti-capitalism, and explorations of platonic and romantic love. She has read her work at the Vancouver Writer’s Festival, and excerpts from her in-progress food memoir are published in Room Magazine, Hungry Zine, and emerge22. She…

Ottawa

Matlock

Matlock

Doreen Pendgracs is an award-winning Manitoba-based non-fiction freelance writer and author. In 2014, Doreen won a Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Chocolatour: A Quest for the World's Best Chocolate. Doreen specializes in writing about chocolate travel, but also…

Pendziwol, Jean E.

THUNDER BAY

Jean E.

Pendziwol

THUNDER BAY

Jean E. Pendziwol is the author of books for both adults and children, including the bestselling novel The Lightkeeper’s Daughters, translated and published in more than 20 countries around the world. Her children’s books include Skating Wild on an Inland Sea, (Illus. Todd…

Penikett, Tony

Tony

Penikett

Chapters:"Dotting the Ice," inThe Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, edited by Ken S. Coates - Carin Holyroyd, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019."Nation to Neighbour", in Canada's Arctic Agenda: Into the Vortex, Centre for International Governance Innovation, edited by…

Sechelt

Sechelt

A.S. Penne is the author of the creative nonfiction memoir Old Stones (Touchwood Editions, Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria2002). Her writing has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the UK’s Ian St. James Award (1996, 1994), the Writers’…

Bowen Island

Vancouver

Vancouver

Cristina is passionate about art and Italian culture. Born in Orsara di Puglia, she immigrated to Canada with her parents as a toddler. A Vancouver based visual artist, writer and pediatric diabetes educator, Cristina is also a member of the Association of…

Toronto

Toronto

Daniel Perry is the author of the novella Modern Folklore (Little Ghosts, 2024), and the short story collections Hamburger (Thistledown, 2016) and Nobody Looks That Young Here (Guernica, 2018). His fiction has been short-listed for the Carter V. Cooper Prize, and has appeared in…

Pesando, Frank

London

Frank

Pesando

London

I was born in Brampton, Ontario on February 1, 1948. When Prime Minister Diefenbaker destroyed the Canadian branch of AVRO by cancelling the Avro Arrow in 1959, my father moved his family to Massachusettes, where he found employment at RCA in Burlington. After…

Petch, Charlie

East York

Charlie

Petch

East York

Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival…

Peters, Sheila

Powell River

Sheila

Peters

Powell River

Born in the coastal BC town of Powell River, Sheila Peters moved inland to the mountains near Smithers in northwestern BC in 1977. She married and raised two sons while working as a journalist, weaver, college instructor, environmental and human rights activist. Her work has…

Peterson, Lois

Nanaimo

Lois

Peterson

Nanaimo

Born in the UK, Lois Peterson was raised in England, at a Cornish boarding school, and in Iraq. She came to Vancouver in 1971 via Paris, London and New York. In BC she raised a daughter, Holly, and worked for 40 years in a public library. Meanwhile, her short stories, articles…

Peterson, Shelley

TBA

Shelley

Peterson

TBA

Shelley Peterson was born in London, Ontario and studied theatre at Dalhousie University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Western University. She's worked as an actress in theatre, film and television since childhood. Currently she's working on a new novel, and raises and…

Pflug, Ursula

Peterborough

Ursula

Pflug

Peterborough

Ursula Pflug (she/her) is the author of eight books of fiction and editor or co-editor of three edited anthologies, published by award-winning Canadian, US and UK small presses. These include the novels Green Music, The Alphabet Stones, Motion Sickness (a flash novel illustrated…