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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Lasqueti Island
Lasqueti Island
Sheila is the author of Voices for the Islands, Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea, published by Heritage House July, 2024. It has been on the BC bestseller list all summer. She was co-author and co-editor of the award winning, Islands in the Salish Sea,…
Toronto
Toronto
Dr. Carolyn Harris is a historian, author and royal commentator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches history at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. She the author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada: Democracy, Law, and Human Rights (…
Lethbridge
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Regina
Toronto
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Toronto
Toronto
After a career in science and business, I returned to my childhood love of writing. As an avid reader of crime fiction, I naturally chose this genre. Like many new writers, I had my share of rejections as well as wonderful writing teachers and encouragement. My breakthrough came…
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Lethbridge
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YORK
YORK
Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is an editor and writer. Her work reflects her roots as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry and explores meaningful coincidences, cultural memories and identity. She is the author of a children’s book, My Father’s Nose and lives…
Victoria
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Toronto
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Toronto
Toronto
Carol Harvey Steski (she/her) grew up in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg), Canada. Her debut poetry collection is rump + flank (NeWest Press, 2021, Crow Said Poetry series). Her poems have been published in the poetry anthology Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology and…
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Toronto
Toronto
Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) is a proudly queer and trans space-case who has been writing since he can remember. Markus specializes in super sweet, super gay stories, ideal for readers young and old alike. He lives in downtown Toronto with his husband, their plantonic co-…
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Delta
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Margaret Hastings-James is a writer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She began writing in a small Inuit community in Northern Quebec . She moved to Paris in 1994 and lived there for 12 years, studying under British author, Julian Gloag. She also did many work shops on script writing and…
Halifax
Toronto
Toronto
Beatriz Hausner has published several poetry collections, including The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Sew Him Up (2010), Enter the Raccoon (2012), Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020) and She Who Lies Above (2023), as well as many limited edition chapbooks. Her books have been…
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Campbell River
Campbell River
Wendy Hawkin is an author/publisher with Blue Haven Press. As W. L. Hawkin, she publishes the Hollystone Mysteries, a mystery/thriller/urban fantasy series that features a coven of Vancouver witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. As a genre…
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Pennfield
Pennfield
A life-long lover of horror, Vanessa wrote her first story when she was in grade five. It was titled Mutilated and warranted a trip to the school guidance counsellor. With over a dozen publications under her belt, Vanessa is not only a proud mom, but a bestselling author. She…
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London
London
Barbara Haworth-Attard was born in Kitchener, Ontario and now lives in London, Ontario with her husband. Her fondest memories of childhood are of her weekly Saturday visits to the library, a tradition carried on to date. While always possessed with the writing bug, it was not…
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Ottawa
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White Rock
White Rock
Elaine Hayes studied creative writing at the University of Calgary (2007; B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing) and the Humber School for Writers.
Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including (M)othering…
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Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
Diana Hayes was born in Toronto in 1955 and has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia and Victoria, receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She was Poetry Editor for Prism international while at U.B.C. from ’80…
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BURNABY