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,…

Carla Harris (they/she) is a disabled queer writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 4 territory, living in Regina Saskatchewan. They have performed in Verses Festival in Vancouver (2016), the Saskatoon Poetic Arts Festival (2018), and featured on their home…

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…

Trevor W. Harrison is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. He was formerly Director of Parkland Institute (2011-2021), an Alberta-wide research organization, of which he was also a founding member. He was the recipient of the University of…

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…

Ken is the author of a collection of short stories (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). The story collection won the Violet Quill Award for Best New Gay Fiction at the Lambda Literary Festival. The Italian translation of the…

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…

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-…

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She is also a fiction editor at House of Gamut, and a staff writer at psychopomp.com. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there. Currently, she’s located just outside…

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…

Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and performer who lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, and teaches full time at Saint Mary’s University. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new musical and/or theatrical works by composers Colin Labadie, Benton Roark, Zachary…

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…

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…

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…

Penelope Hawtrey grew up in southern Ontario and moved to eastern Ontario to attend University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She began writing shortly after graduation, then stopped, and started again a decade later. After she completed her first manuscript,…

  Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story collection Small Change was…

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…

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…

Diane has been writing professionally for over 30 years. An award-winning freelance writer and the author of an award-winning novel series, she was the speechwriter for international human rights lawyer Stephen Toope during his tenure as president of the University of British…