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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Ottawa
Ottawa
Alyssa Gonzalez is a biology Ph.D., public speaker, and writer. Her fiction uses science-fiction and fantasy elements to explore social isolation, autism, gender, trauma, and the relationships between all of these things. She is by some accounts one of the earliest participants…
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Winnipeg
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Ottawa
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. Gordon also works as…
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Gabriola
Gabriola
The author of eight non-fiction books and a contributor to several anthologies, Katherine Palmer Gordon has been writing for publications in both Canada and New Zealand since 1995. Born in England in 1963, her much-travelled French/Scottish family eventually settled in New…
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Cornwall
Cornwall
Christine Gordon Manley has been a freelance editor for fifteen (ish) years and has worked on over 40 books, including fiction, memoirs, children’s books, educational material, YA, and even cookbooks.
When she’s not helping other authors with their words, Christine likes to put…
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Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
Carolyn Gossage grew up in Toronto, where she learned to skip (school) and jump (queues) and other useful lifetime skills. As an only child, the allure of books and writing claimed her as an early victim. After studying French and German, she spent a year at the Sorbonne in…
Victoria
Victoria
Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in W̱SÁNEĆ Territory. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, and was the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her second adult…
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Victoria
New Westminster
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Toronto
Heather Grace Stewart is an award-winning poet and journalist who writes fast-paced, humorous and touching romance novels. The Ticket, a romantic comedy inspired by a true story, became an International Kindle bestseller.
Heather is the author of 29 works. She's…
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Peterborough
Peterborough
Laurie D. Graham grew up in Treaty 6 territory (Sherwood Park, Alberta). She currently lives in Nogojiwanong, in the territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg (Peterborough, Ontario), where she is a writer, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine. Her first book, Rove,…
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Cambridge
Cambridge
Taylor is a writer, theatre artist, and educator living in Cambridge, Ontario / Haldimand Tract. In her writing, she enjoys digging into difficult subjects using humour, developing complex characters, and balancing complicated relationships. Her projects often ask decolonial and…
Etobicoke
Etobicoke
Nancy Graham is a Toronto writer whose first book "Afraid of the Day: a daughter's journey" is written from the vantage point of one who bears witness to her mother's recurring rollercoaster journeys into the deep dark hell of major depressive disorder through the 1960s, 1970s…
Sundridge
Sundridge
Monica Graham is a Nova Scotia-based freelance journalist, columnist, and the author of ten books of non-fiction. The most recent, Senior Moment - Navigating the Challenges of Caring for Mom, was published in 2021 by Nimbus. Monica served as 2008 Writer in Residence at Berton…
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Toronto
Toronto
Catherine Graham (Hon B.A., B.Ed., M.A. in creative writing) is a Toronto-based writer of poetry and fiction. Among her seven poetry collections The Celery Forest was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. Her Red Hair Rises with…