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McLaughlin, Paul
toronto
Paul
McLaughlin
toronto
Paul McLaughlin is an award-winning freelance writer, playwright, broadcaster, and author of about a dozen books (many private commissions), hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and countless broadcast scripts. A leading interviewing expert, he has written two books on…
McLaughlin, Hooley
McLay, Richard
McLean, Dirk
Scarborough
Dirk
McLean
Scarborough
Dirk
DIRK McLEAN is the author of children's picture books: Steel Drums and Ice Skates (Groundwood), Play Mas’! A Carnival ABC, and Curtain Up! (Tundra). As well as four YA Sports Stories novels with James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers: Not Out, Team Fugee, Tournament Fugee…
McLean, Bruce
McLean, Maria Coletta
Etobicoke
McLellan, Stephanie Simpson
Newmarket
Stephanie Simpson
McLellan
Newmarket
Stephanie Simpson
Stephanie is the award-winning author of six picture books and one mid-grade novel. She reviewed children’s books for twelve years for Today’s Parent magazine (for which she got to interview the legendary Maurice Sendak!), operated an online bookstore for a few years called…
mclennan, rob
Ottawa
rob
mclennan
Ottawa
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove…
McLeod, Darrel
Sooke
Darrel
McLeod
Sooke
Darrel J. McLeod is Nehiyaw (Cree). Darrel’s memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (Douglas & McIntyre), won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award and was a finalist for the RBC Charles Taylor Prize. The sequel, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity, was released in March…
McLeod, Heather
Thunder Bay
Heather
McLeod
Thunder Bay
Heather lives with her family on an old homestead on the edge of town overlooking Lake Superior. She studied music in University and paid for her education working as a busker and jazz singer. Upon graduation she launched her first career as a singer/songwriter. It kept her on…
McLeod, Cynthia
Toronto
Cynthia
McLeod
Toronto
Cinders McLeod grew up in Toronto. She picked up the doublebass at eight, played in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, then moved to England where she studied art and film. After receiving her film degree in London, she became a newspaper, comic book, magazine and conference…
McLeod MacKnight, Wendy
McMaster, Susan
Ottawa
Susan
McMaster
Ottawa
"Susan McMaster's purview is the world entire, with all its mystery, heartbreak and magic" (Carolyn Smart, editor McGill-Queen's). Her poetry has been described as "muscular, candid, intimate yet universal... with an open, seemingly effortless control of her craft" (Heather…
McMaster, Margaret J.
Kingsville
Margaret J.
McMaster
Kingsville
Margaret J.
Margaret is a multimedia creator who writes, paints, produces videos for the YouTube Channel: A Sweet Enough Life, and designs journals for Mansbridge Dunn Publishers. This is what she calls retirement after working in education, business, and library services. She lives in…
McMillan, Amber
Amber
McMillan
Amber McMillan is the author of This Is a Stickup (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022), The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions, 2021), The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (Nightwood Editions, 2016), and We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). Her work has won a Penguin…
McNab, David
McNair, Christine
Ottawa
Christine
McNair
Ottawa
CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of Charm (Book*hug 2017, winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (Book*hug 2012, finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). Toxemia (Book*hug 2024) is her first…
McNicoll, Sylvia
Burlington, ON
Sylvia
McNicoll
Burlington, ON
Concordia graduate and former creative writing instructor at Sheridan College and Living Arts Centre, Sylvia McNicoll has written 40 internationally published novels for young audiences and given writing workshops and talks across Canada as well as in South Korea and Colombia.…
McPherson, David
Waterloo
David
McPherson
Waterloo
David
David McPherson is the author of 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts (2023); Massey Hall (2021) and the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History (2017). He is a frequent contributor to GRAMMY.com, the Globe and Mail, and SOCAN’s Words and Music. He lives in…
McRae, Laura
McRae, Bronwen
McWhirter, George
George
McWhirter
George McWhirter was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1939 and came to Canada via Spain in 1966. He taught high school in Port Alberni before going to UBC in 1968. He retired from the Creative Writing Department as a Professor Emeritus in 2005 to write and translate full-…
Meadows, Sally
Martensville
Sally
Meadows
Martensville
Sally
Sally Meadows is an award-winning author, speaker, and singer/songwriter who currently resides in Saskatchewan. Her former work as a scientist, science entertainer, science outreach educator, and teacher has given her a rich background to draw from for her five children's books…
Medved, Maureen
Meehan Sirk, Sarah