Member Directory
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Antigonish
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Orleans
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Toronto
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Toronto
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Toronto
Toronto
Michelle Kadarusman is a Toronto-based children’s author. She is originally from Australia and Indonesia and often shares her cultural background in her work. She is twice-nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and her books have been translated into Spanish, German,…
Victoria
Victoria
Dr. Joanna Kafarowski has a passion for uncovering and writing about the lives of forgotten polar women. Currently, she is undertaking research for a new book about women's exploration in Greenland. She is the author of "Antarctic Pioneer The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne."…
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Whitecap
Whitecap
Robert Kakakaway
I am from White Bear First Nations, near Carlyle SK. I currently live on the Whitecap Dakota First Nation south of Saskatoon, SK. I married Vanessa Little Crow on September 21, 2002, and we have eight children and numerous grandchildren. As the president of…
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Sooke
Sooke
Joseph Kakwinokansum is a writer, creator, and storyteller. A member of the James Smith Cree Nation, Joseph grew up in the Peace Region of northern BC.
Joseph is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and The Writer’s Studio Graduate Workshop. He was…
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Toronto
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Elaine Kalman Naves was born in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to Canada in 1959 as a child. She attended McGill and Bishop's Universities, and worked as an editor and researcher at the Centre d'Etude de Québec during the 1970s. She now writes a book column and literary…
Rolla/Halifax
Rolla/Halifax
A recipient of the BC Medal of Good Citizenship, Donna Kane’s poems, short fiction, reviews, and essays have been published widely. She is the author of the non-fiction book Summer of the Horse and four books of poetry including Orrery, a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s…
Toronto
Toronto
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St. John's
St. John's
Chris Kaposy is the author of The Beautiful Unwanted: Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics (McGill-Queen's, 2023) and Choosing Down Syndrome (MIT Press, 2018).
He works in the Centre for Bioethics at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Chris…
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Ottawa
Ottawa
Kees Kapteyn has a published chapbook 'Temperance Ave.' through Grey Borders Books as well has been published in such magazines as Camel Magazine, NonBinary Review, Flo Magazine, Blank Spaces, Wordbusker, Dear Booze and various other publications. His short story “A Hierarchy of…
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Montreal
Montreal
Irena F. Karafilly is a Montreal writer and journalist. She obtained an M.A. in English from McGill and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her work has been broadcast, anthologized, and published in both literary and consumer magazines, and in…
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Toronto
Toronto
Daniel is the author of I jak inni (O Like the Others or A like Another) (WL, 1998), and Fikcja(Fiction) (WL, 2000), which were both nominated for the Nike Literary Award, the most prestigious Polish book prize. An audiobook of “I jak Inni” is an official promotional material…
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London
Mississauga