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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Montreal
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Charlottetown
Charlottetown
Deirdre Kessler is an author, poet, and former Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island.
Her most recent publication is a novel, Darwin's Hornpipe, published by Penumbra Press.
She is a sessional professor of creative writing, children's literature, and the course on L.M.…
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Owen Sound
Owen Sound
Born in Toronto, Zoë grew up (sort of) in an idyllic suburb of Montreal. She now makes her home on Georgian Bay, Ontario.
All she's ever wanted to do was write books, but she was sagely advised at an early age to "get a real job." Feigning interest in a law career, Zoë graduated…
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Toronto, ON
Thornhill
Thornhill
Saad Omar Khan was born in the United Arab Emirates to Pakistani parents and lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and South Korea before emigrating to Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and has completed a certificate in…
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Toronto
Toronto
Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian writer and researcher. She has given numerous inspirational speeches and public readings in Canada and in the Fiji Islands. In addition to being a visiting writer at the University of South Pacific, Fiji Islands in 2011, Khelawan…
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Toronto
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Calgary
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Edmonton
Edmonton
Alexis Kienlen is a poet, journalist, fiction writer, book reviewer, and creative writing teacher whose work has appeared in numerous publications across Canada. Born in Saskatoon, Alexis currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She holds an Honours degree in International Studies…
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Halifax
Bracebridge
Bracebridge
Christina Kilbourne (she/her) is an award-winning author of adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction.
Her books have won several readers choice awards over the years, including a Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award, a Snow Willow Award, and a Red Cedar Award. She has also…
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Montreal
Montreal
Nancy Kilpatrick is an award-winning author who has published 23 novels, 1 non-fiction book, over 250 short stories, 10 collections of her short fiction, plus comic books, a graphic novel, and she has edited 15 anthologies. Her work is traditionally published but she has also…
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Surrey
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Halifax
Halifax
STEPHEN KIMBER is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of 13 books, including two novels and nine works of nonfiction:
Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions (HarperCollins, 2022) (with Jennifer Robertson);
Alexa! Changing the Face…
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Lacombe
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Ottawa
Wellesley
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Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Kurt Kirchmeier is a Saskatchewan-based author and photographer who writes strange and fantastical stories for readers of all ages. His short stories and poems have appeared in more than fifty magazines and anthologies around the world. His coming-of-age horror novel THE ABSENCE…
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Barrie, ON
Barrie, ON
Heather Kirk has written professionally for over 40 years, producing newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, radio scripts, translations, poetry, short stories, and novels. She has also taught writing for about 30 years in colleges and universities. Some of her books…
Toronto
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Toronto
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New Westminster
New Westminster
Jónína Kirton is a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007, where she is now an instructor. Although she acknowledges and is thankful for the teachings offered through academic institutions, she leans heavily into…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Curriculum Vitae - Literary
Education
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario - L.L.B. (J.D.) in 1983.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours) in 1980.
St. Albert High School, St. Albert, Alberta - Matriculation in 1976.
Legal career…