Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
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Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Carole Giangrande was born and raised in the New York city area. She came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She's worked as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio, a Writer-in-Residence and as a teacher of journalism and political science, and she's given readings…
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Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Anne Giardini, O.C., O.B.C., K.C. Anne's first novel, The Sad Truth About Happiness, was published by HarperCollins/Fourth Estate in Canada, the UK, the US and Australia in spring 2005. It was short-listed for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2006 and for an Audie…
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
DOUGLAS GIBSON was born in Scotland in 1943. After somehow acquiring degrees from the University of St Andrews and from Yale, he came to Canada in 1967. He soon became a Trainee Editor at Doubleday Canada in Toronto. The die was cast. For more than 40 years he was to work in…
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Lanark County
Lanark County
Susan Gillis has lived on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and along the St. Lawrence River, and now makes her home near Perth in eastern Ontario. Her most recent book, Yellow Crane (Brick 2018), is a meditation on ecologies of place, writing, and desire. Volta, her second book,…
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Etobicoke
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Marathon
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Hamilton
Hamilton
I am a writer, theatre artist, and arts educator whose work over the past 40 years has evolved at the intersection of arts and activism. My short stories, poems and personal essays have been published in Resilience Magazine, Deep Times Journal, Forge Journal, The Furious Gazelle…
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Susan Glickman was raised in Montreal and studied and travelled in Europe, Asia, and North America before settling in Toronto where she lives with glass artist Toan Klein and raised their two children, Jesse and Rachel. She has always been involved with books, working at a…
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Winnipeg
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Frankville, ON
Frankville, ON
Celia has enjoyed a number of complimentary and overlapping careers that combine her love of art and nature. She's worked as a biologist, a natural science illustrator, and a teacher of studio arts courses, but she's best known as the author and illustrator of award-winning…
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Toronto
Toronto
Jennifer Gold won her first creative writing award at nine years old for a short story about Bigfoot and a group of alligators sponsored by the Lipton Soup company. After studying psychology, law, and public health at York, McGill, and Harvard Universities, she decided to return…
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Toronto
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Nanaimo
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Calgary
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Gabriele Goldstone writes the books she wanted to read while growing up as the daughter of European immigrants. She earned her MA in modern German Literature at the U of M before focusing on raising three children while working as a letter carrier. Always a reader, she's now…
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Mississauga