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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BURNABY
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Toronto
Toronto
Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to entering medical school, he studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and…
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LASALLE
LASALLE
Christine lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family. She is an avid reader, but her true love is writing. She enjoys literary, classics, horror, and contemporary fiction. Her retirement from the world of accounting and business management, turned into a full-time writing career…
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Ottawa
Ottawa
Kate Heartfield writes novels, novellas, stories and games. Her works include the historical fantasy novel The Embroidered Book (2022), and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes…
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Halifax
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Toronto
Toronto
Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist with an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King's College. Her articles appear in publications such as CIM Magazine, Explore, & The Globe Mail. She pubilished Ring of…
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Toronto
Toronto
Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in Literature.…
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Toronto
Toronto
Sydney Hegele (formally Sydney Warner Brooman) is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021). They are the winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their poetry chapbook The Last Thing I Will See Before I…
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Calgary
Calgary
Betty Jane Hegerat is a Calgary writer, social worker, and teacher. She has studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Sage Hill, the Banff Centre, and completed a MFA Creative Writing through UBC's low residency program in 2008.
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Edmonton
Edmonton
Jaymie Heilman grew up in Alberta, Canada, and lived in Wisconsin, Peru, and Nova Scotia before circling back home to teach Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Alberta. She has published two history books with Stanford and Duke University Press and three…
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Toronto
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Sudbury
Sudbury
Born in a meteor crater, Matthew has published a novel, The City Still Breathing (Coach House Books) and a play Black Dog: 4 vs the wrld (Playwrights Canada Press). His short fiction has appeared in many publications, winning several awards including the Carter V. Cooper Award…
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T'karonto
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Kingston
Kingston
Patricia Henderson is the author of the non-fiction book INSIDE KINGSTON – Celebrating People’s Lives & Passions. She is the co-author of three plays for children, editor of four books, writer of short stories and owner of the writing company Writing By Design. Her first…
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Montreal West
Montreal West
Keith Henderson has published six novels with DC Books, The Restoration (1992), The Beekeeper (1990), The Roof Walkers (2013), Acqua Sacra (2016), Sasquatch and the Green Sash (2018), and Mont Babel (2020), political essays from when he was Quebec correspondent for the Financial…
Grey Highlands
Grey Highlands
Brian Henderson is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards originally published by UnderWhich now available on UbuWeb's visual poetry site: http://www.ubu.com/vp/Henderson.html. His latest volume is Unidentified Poetic…
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Toronto
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Bonnington
Bonnington
Pat Henman – Director, Actor, Singer/Songwriter, Producer, Educator, Author
Pat is a veteran of the Canadian theatre/performing arts as an actor, singer, director and producer. Originally from Nova Scotia, Pat and her family have made Nelson, BC their home since 2000. She has a…
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Montreal
Montreal
Pamela Hensley is the managing editor of yolk literary journal and creator of the podcast How I Wrote This. Her writing has appeared in the Queen’s Quarterly, The New Quarterly, the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, The Montreal Review, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie…