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Vancouver
Vancouver
Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been…
Whitefish Falls
Whitefish Falls
Terry Lynn Johnson has been a dog musher with eighteen sled dogs, a wilderness park ranger, and currently works as a conservation officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources in northern Ontario. Terry's novels have been recognized by Bank Street College Best Books, ABA Best…
Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
 Sandi Johnson is interested in imaginative work that is socially relevant. "The Comfort of Angels," a fictional work, is based on her experience of working with Ojibwa Indians in northwestern Ontario. It portrays dignified characters who desire freedom and a better life. "The…
New Denmark, New Brunswick
New Denmark, New Brunswick
     J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for an author/playwright/composer living with (dis)Ability who now lives in the Appalachians of New Brunswick, where she and her husband and mother live on their small farm overlooking inspirational views of nature.  Like her grandmother…
Hello everybody—late bloomer here! To contact me or to hear me read a chapter from my memoir They Left Us Everything, or to see behind-the-scenes videos, please visit my website at: https://plumjohnson.com  
Kamloops
Kamloops
George M. Johnson was born in 1961 in Waterdown, Ontario. In 1984 he received an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he held a S.S.H.R.C. doctoral fellowship. Since 1991 he…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Simon's novel “The House of Wives," inspired by the lives of his mixed race family was published by Penguin Canada and Penguin India in 2016. His short stories have appeared in Ricepaper magazine and short fiction won the Friends of White Rock Library’s Writing Contest in 2015…
Halifax
Halifax
A.J.B. Johnston writes both fiction and history. John (or Jay) is originally from Truro, NS, and completed an MA in History at Dalhousie University, then a PhD at the Université Laval. He worked for Parks Canada for many years, with his time at the Fortress of Louisbourg being…
Otonabee
Otonabee
Gordon Johnston was born in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, in 1947. He studied at Trinity College in Toronto and then at Harvard before starting a teaching career at Trent University in Peterborough that lasted forty years until he retired in 2011. He organized the university's…
Toronto
Liz
Toronto
Liz Johnston lives and writes in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Humber Literary Review, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review, among other publications. She is an editor of the international literary magazine Brick. For more information,…
Wayne Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland in 1958. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a BA (Hons) in English. He worked from 1978-1981 as a newspaper reporter with the St. John's Daily News. In 1981, after moving to Ottawa, he took up the…
Regina
Regina
Gerry Jones was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Gerry has travelled extensively from sea to sea to sea. He was a journalist for most of his working life, starting with newspapers and then moving to radio and television. He is an award-winning investigative journalist. Gerry…
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
Marianne is the award-winning author of 8 books, including her most recent literary novel, Maud and Me (Crossfield, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Resistance, (University of Regina Press,), Writing Menopause, (Inanna Publications), All We Can Hold (Sage Hill Press) and Indra`…
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia
Born in Kincaid, Saskatchewan, now living in Victoria, BC, Leanne Marie Jones works as a private investigator in her firm "Secrets' Investigations." She is the mother of three grown children, and was previously a primary-school teacher, governess in Japan, librarian in Germany,…
Kingston
Kingston
Detailed and productive researcher and writer specializing in social justice, public policy, history and culture, music and culture-related travel.  Published in September 2021, an award winning travel guide to the roots of the blues, co-authored with TWUC member Josephine…
TORONTO
TORONTO
Alana Jones has been a writer since the age of twelve after her mother encouraged her to write as a medium of expression. Born in Trinidad, she is fascinated by both the Written Word and the Oral Traditions inspired by her childhood memories and cultural heritage. A mother of…
Toronto
Toronto
Gord and his wife, Teena, live in Toronto with their two cats, Crumpet and Muffin. Defending the Inland Shores: Newfoundland in the War of 1812 was his first published work. Saving Tiberius (2020) was his first fictional novel. On September 1, his new crime thriller, Predators…
Since 2006, New York Times bestseller Donna Jones Alward has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen languages. She’s worked as an administrative assistant, teaching assistant, in retail…
Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room Magazine, Body & Soul; Stories for Skeptics and Seekers and The Nasiona. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio (Simon…
Apsley
Apsley
David Jongeward’s writing over the past thirty years is a mix of academic, fiction and non-fiction. Born and raised in Bozeman, Montana, he has a MA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University, followed by PhD research at the University of British Columbia, and several…
Eve
Eve Joseph grew up on unceded Squamish territory (North Vancouver) and now lives in Victoria on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen people. Her latest book of poetry, Quarrels, was released in May 2018 by Anvil Press and won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2019. Her book about…
Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. He is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories. His work has appeared in several literary journals and magazines in Canada…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
M. C. Joudrey is an award winning Canadian writer, artist and designer. His second novel Of Violence and Cliché was released September 2013, followed by his collection of short stories Charleswood Road: Stories in August 2014, which was nominated for a 2015 John Hirsch Manitoba…