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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Victoria
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Seeley's Bay
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Toronto
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Kingston
Toronto
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Vancouver
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Chilliwack
Chilliwack
Heather Ramsay is seriously concerned about the state of the world and tries to remain calm in the Fraser Valley. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a journalist and communications professional. She has published two…
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Etobicoke
Etobicoke
Priya Ramsingh is the author of The Elevator (Palimpsest Press, Oct. 2024) and Brown Girl in the Room, (Tightrope Books, 2017).
Her short story, Pies for Lunch, was shortlisted for best short fiction in 2021, by The Caribbean Writer, an annual literary journal published by the…
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MILTON
MILTON
Children's author, conservationist and creator of the Kindness Is Everything Podcast
Anitha Rao-Robinson received her Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University and worked as an accountant for twenty-four years before trading numbers for words. Anitha is passionate about…
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Toronto
Toronto
Namitha Rathinappillai (she/they) is a fat, disabled, queer, Tamil spoken word poet, organizer, and workshop facilitator who entered the poetry community in 2017. She is currently based in Toronto, and was the first female and youngest director of Ottawa’s Urban Legends Poetry…
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London
Toronto
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West Vancouver
West Vancouver
Hailing from small-town Ontario, Chris Read has worked as a piano teacher, camp counsellor, waitress, math tutor, chartered accountant, finance director, treasurer, and executive director. She is married and a mother to two grown children, one of whom has ADHD. After many years…
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Hamilton
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Toronto
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Fredericton
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Squamish
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Toronto
Toronto
Michael Redhill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966, but has lived in Toronto most of his life. Educated in the United States and Canada, he took seven years to complete a three-year BA in acting, film, and finally, English. Since 1988, he has published five collections of…
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407 - 1083 Tillicum Road, Victoria
407 - 1083 Tillicum Road, Victoria
After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Carolyn Redl taught literature and creative writing for over thirty years. During that time, she also wrote and published essays, short stories, poems, travel articles, and book reviews in publications as diverse as The…
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Toronto
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