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Nan
Nan Gregory has been a professional storyteller since 1984. She wrote her first story in 1995. Since then she has explored storymaking, both oral and written. She gives workshops in storytelling as well as storytelling performances and author presentations for all ages.
Vegreville
Vegreville
* Career sports journalist and author of seven books, including Canadian bestsellers Chuvalo: A Fighter's Life (with George Chuvalo) and Big Bucks & Blue Pucks: An anecdotal history of the late, great World Hockey Association. * Staff writer and columnist at major dailies…
I'm an independent historian who's interested in culture wars and cultural creativity. So far I've written four books. The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History examines how environmental degradation has affected society across the center of the…
North Bay
North Bay
Born in Belleville, Ontario, Barry Grills began his writing career as a journalist. He has been a reporter, editor, columnist, broadcaster, and communications consultant. He began publishing short fiction in 1973, publishing stories in such literary publications as Grain, The…
Kingsville
Kingsville
Gord is nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation, and has earned an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor (2020). He also completed his BA (Hon) from the University of Windsor in 2018, almost 30 years after he started his post secondary…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Described as a “masterful writer” and “brilliant storyteller”, Darren Groth is the internationally published author of works including Kindling, Are You Seeing Me?, Munro vs. the Coyote, and his latest novel, Boy in the Blue Hammock. He is an Adelaide Festival Award for…
Montréal
Montréal
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. She has been a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her translations into English include works by Marie-Claire Blais,…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer and blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and broadcast journalist and as a radio host for the CBC. He has written or edited eight books. His ninth, A Communist for the RCMP,  will be published in June 2024…
Montreal
Montreal
Inspired by the pura vida while living in Costa Rica, Susan Grundy veered from her thirty-year career in marketing to write stories about the weight of emotional distress and how to step into an easier way of being. After her short fiction appeared in the Danforth Review and…
Toronto
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach
Jacqueline Guest (CAN) is a Métis writer who lives on Vancouver Island. An award-winning author of 30 novels and short stories, her fast-paced novels cover topics from deadly video games to helpful ghosts. She has worked in Canada, United States, Tanzania and Ghana teaching…
Squamish
Squamish
Author Bio: Born and educated in Ireland, Nora Ryan immigrated to Canada with her husband and two small children in 1981. She spent sixteen years in rural Manitoba working as an educator and health promotion specialist. In1997 she moved to the Caribbean where her husband had a…
Killaloe
Killaloe
Born in Miami, Florida in 1944, Sandra Gulland lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador for one year. Settling in Toronto, she worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with her…
Vancouver
Vancouver
  Genni Gunn is an author, musician and translator. Born in Trieste, she came to Canada as a child. Her fourteen published books include four novels, three short story collections, three poetry collections, and a collection of personal essays. As well, she has translated from…
Crescent Beach, NS
Crescent Beach, NS
Sylvia Gunnery is the author of many books for young adults and children, as well as professional books on writing curriculum.   She has presented at schools, libraries, and conferences across Canada.  In 2022, the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia awarded her a Queen Elizabeth…
Toronto
Toronto
Andrea Gunraj is author of The Lost Sister (Vagrant Press) and The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha (Knopf Canada). She is also a contributing essayist to a new collection entitled Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity (Coach House Books). Andrea loves stories…
Guy
This Book was written as a tribute to my brothers, who died in a boating accident that was waiting to happen, but shouldn't have happened, and how it happened.
Kelowna
Kelowna
Meaghan Hackinen is a writer and cyclist whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and, most recently, from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Her writing explores…
whitehorse
whitehorse
Jamella Hagen’s first collection of poetry, Kerosene, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2011. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UBC, has worked as an executive editor of PRISM international, has been a guest editor for the Northern Review, and has…
Calgary
Calgary
Lori Hahnel is the award-winning author of five books of fiction. Her latest novel, Flicker, was published in the University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series in 2023 and is currently a finalist for the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction in the 2024…