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Edmonton
Edmonton
My last novel, The Sicilian Wife was named a Best Book of 2015 by The National Post, who described it as “a masterful tale of family, murder, and the inescapable pull of the past.” The literary noir received rave reviews in Canada, the U.S. and Sicily; a French edition, L’Epouse…
Kagawong
Kagawong
sophie anne edwards (she/her/settler) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based on Manitoulin Island (Mnidoo Mnising). She came to geography circuitously (PhD/ABD Geography, Queens U) via an Interdisciplinary Masters (Laurentian U), poetics via her environmental art…
Victoria
Victoria
Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, in the woods as a faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor. Along the way he earned a B.A. and M.Ed.…
Toronto
Toronto
R. Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, writer, and software developer. A prolific filmmaker (he has made over sixty hours of films), which have been screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Film Workshop, Berlin’s Kino Arsenal, Paris’s Centre Pompidou, the San…
Sarah Ellis was born in Vancouver in 1952. She earned a B.A. at the University of British Columbia. in 1973, and her MLS in 1975, and an M.A. at Simmons College, Boston in 1980. She writes a column on Canadian children's books for Hornbook magazine, and works part-time as a…
Simcoe, ON
Simcoe, ON
Deb was born and raised in small town Ontario, she has a high school diploma, and took up writing because she was so anti-social. She's still ani-social, but now it's called 'artistic temperment'. She's an old anti-war activist, and gives lots of school talks on the arts and…
Louise Ells grew up beside the Ottawa River, then combined random jobs (chef, caregiver, co-pilot on a submarine) with years of travel. The author of Notes Towards Recovery, a thematically-linked short story collection, Louise earned her PhD in Creative Writing from Anglia…
Halifax
Halifax
Michelle Elrick is the author of the books Then/Again and To Speak, and the chapbooks Photon Touch and remember the old log house. She is also an established poetry-film-maker, with recent releases "The __ Place," "Ditches" and "Trace" gaining audiences on CBC television, CBC.ca…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Daniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) & slow erosions (2020). Her previous poetry books are the weight of dew (2012), milk tooth bane bone (2013) and the book of it (2011). In…
Halifax, NS
Halifax, NS
Sarah Emsley’s books include Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues (Palgrave, 2005) and a critical edition of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country (Broadview, 2008). After receiving her PhD from Dalhousie University, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the…
KINGSTON
KINGSTON
Lt. Col.-Dr. John A. English retired from the Canadian army in 1993 with 37 years of service and regimental affiliation with the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, the Queen's Own Rifles, and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He also served on exchange with the Queen’s Own…
Urbania
Urbania
Sharon English’s books include the newly released novel Night in the World (May 2022) and two collections of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity. Zero Gravity was long-listed for the Giller Prize, short-listed for the ReLit Award, and was a Globe & Mail Best…
Kelowna
Kelowna
Victor Enns was born in Winnipeg in 1955 and raised in southern Manitoba.He expanded his practice  to feature prerecorded work for presentation as an accommodation for his depression, occasionally weeping through readings making everyone, including himself, uncomfortable. With…
Victoria
Meet Jane Enright—she is an ordinary person, who has survived, and thrived after living through some extraordinary things, including an unforeseen traumatic brain injury in 2017 that almost left her speechless. This began an incredible transformational journey of resilience,…
Winnipeg
Ens
Winnipeg
Sarah Ens is a writer and editor based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Winner of The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and Room Magazine's Short Forms Contest, she has published poetry and non-fiction in numerous literary journals. Her debut collection…
Etobicoke
Erb
Etobicoke
Calyssa Erb is a queer, autistic Canadian writer of books for young readers. She has an Honors BA in English Language and Literature from Western University, and a Certificate in Children's Publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University. When not writing, she enjoys a tall mug…
Thetis Island
Ann
Thetis Island
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St. John's
St. John's
Author Biography: Helen C. Escott is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian author and playwright. Before becoming an author, she had a ten-year career in radio and TV. In 1998 she joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as Senior Communication Strategist. She began writing…
Kimia Eslah is a feminist writer and a queer woman of colour. Her work has been featured on Watershed Writers, CBC Books, Ms. Magazine and The Miramichi Reader. Kimia is the author of Enough (2023), Sister Seen, Sister Heard (2022) and The Daughter Who Walked Away (2019). Her…
Kitchener, Ontario
Kitchener, Ontario
Doris Etienne lives in Kitchener, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1987 with a BA in German and French. Her first young adult novel, The Jewels of Sofia Tate, was published by Dundurn Press in 2009.