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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Calgary
Calgary
Heidi Klaassen (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Salon, Redivider, The Calgary Herald, Westword, Alberta Views, The Sprawl and various anthologies. Her personal essay, "Been Caught Stealing: Life Inside The Lorraine" was a finalist for…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
I was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Manitoba's interlake. I completed high school and university in Winnipeg where I then taught high school English. Following retirement I taught English language in Lithuania and Kharkiv, Ukraine. I also taught English language and literature…
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Nelson
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Roberts Creek and Vancouver
Roberts Creek and Vancouver
Michael C. Klein , M.D., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P., F.A.A.P. (Neonatal/Perinatal), F.C.P.S.,Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at UBC, Senior Scientist Emeritus Child and Family Research Institute in Vancouver
Best known for his RCT of episiotomy, demonstrating that it caused the …
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Bonnie Sherr Klein began her career as a freelance documentary filmmaker in New York in the 1960’s after obtaining a BA from Barnard College and an MA in Communications at Stanford University. She immigrated to Canada with her husband as Vietnam War resisters in 1967, and began…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Seth Klein is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank…
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Vancouver
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Toronto
Toronto
Maggie Knaus is a photographer and artist and serves on the executive of the Friends of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. She published her first children's book, Eleanor's Moon in 2023. Originally from Washington, DC, Maggie now lives in Toronto with her husband…
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Harrison Hot Springs
Harrison Hot Springs
Chelene Knight is the author of the Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015) the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and her novel, Junie (Book*hug 2022) long-listed for the…
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Toronto
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Nelson
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Edmonton
Edmonton
Katherine Koller writes for stage, screen and page. Her trilogy of Alberta Landworks plays includes Last Chance Leduc, The Seed Savers and Coal Valley and her collection of plays is Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays. Her six-part web documentary, Sustainable Me…
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Courtenay
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Couchiching First Nation
Couchiching First Nation
Frances Koncan (she/they) is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, within the shared, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Originally…
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Edmonton
Weyburn
Thornhill, ON
Thornhill, ON
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal on October 23, 1963. He began writing at age 12. He is the author of 23 books for children and young adults. He graduated with a B.F.A. from New York University in 1985. His future plans include more of the same and some screenwriting. He…
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Air Ronge
Air Ronge
Miriam Körner, originally from Germany, is an award-winning writer, photographer, illustrator and wilderness guide. She lives in a small cabin surrounded by her sled dogs near La Ronge, Saskatchewan. When she is not exploring the vast wilderness of Canada's Far North by dog team…
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Hamilton