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Pickering
Pickering
N.E. Rule attended Metropolitan Toronto University for both creative writing and business communications. Her writing portfolio includes software specs, marketing copy, and training materials. However, her passion is speculative fiction. It wasn't until the pandemic she had the…
Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai (she/her) is an Associate Professor and is the Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ruprai is an internationally recognized writer, her début poetry collection, Seva was shortlisted for the Stephan G.…
Toronto
Toronto
Ron Ruskin grew up in Toronto and graduated from medical school at Queen's University in Kingston. Always interested in humanities, Ron wrote for the Queen's Journal as an art reporter and published poetry in Quarry. After his MD he took a year off and studied art in Aix-en-…
London
London
I reside in Southern Ontario and I am a full professor at SUNY Empire State University in Buffalo, New York, where I teach History and Labour Studies.  My current research focuses on labour and management in Canada and the United States from the 1940s to the 2000s. My latest…
Toronto
Toronto
Elizabeth Ruth’s work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, The Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and One Book, One Community Program. The CBC named Elizabeth Ruth one of 10 Canadian Women writers you need to read!…
crescent beach
Syr
crescent beach
Syr Ruus was born in Tallinn, Estonia, was educated in the United States and has lived in Nova Scotia, Canada for most of her life. She has published a book of short fiction, three novels, a novella and a memoir, with more forthcoming.
Montreal
North Cowichan
Jay
North Cowichan
Jay Ruzesky's most recent book is In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage.  He was raised in the Okanagan Valley and now lives on Vancouver Island. He is the Book Reviews Editor and is on the poetry editorial board of the Malahat Review and teaches at Vancouver Island University.…
Calgary
Calgary
In 2004, Garry Ryan published his first Detective Lane novel, Queen’s Park. The second, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, won a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. He has since published seven more titles in the Calgary Herald-bestselling series: A Hummingbird Dance, Smoked, Malabarista,…
Millbrook
Calgary
Tim
Calgary
Tim Ryan has published stories in The Write Launch, The Prairie Journal, Prometheus Dreaming, Short Editions, Chaleur Magazine, Alberta Views Magazine and the Short Story Dispenser. His story “Scottie” won the 2017 Alberta Views Annual Short Story contest and was a finalist for…
Toronto
Toronto
When not playing with words or music, Puerto Rican Canadian María (Mary) Helena Auerbach Rykov is a voracious knitter and ardent dandelion enthusiast, cyclist, and foodie. More at https://maryrykov.com.
Ottawa
Ottawa
An Ottawa-based writer, storyteller, and arts educator, Maria Saba was born and raised in Iran.  She has published three books of nonfiction (in Farsi) and over a hundred articles, essays, interviews, and stories.  "My First Friend", her short story published in Scoundrel Time,…
London
London
Judy-Ann Sadler was raised in a big, noisy family on a farm outside of London, Ontario. Ever since she can remember, she has loved to read, write and make things. She feels passionate about sharing stories and crafts with children. She knows that using your imagination and…
Kingston
Kingston
Jamal Saeed is a Syrian writer who, along with his family, escaped his country's ongoing conflict and emigrated to Canada in December 2016. The Suns' Crazy Girls, his first collection of Shorte stories was published in Arabic in  1993.  Co-author of Yara’s Spring, Annick Press,…
Toronto
Toronto
AHMAD SAIDULLAH's Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories was published to critical acclaim in Canada and India in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and longlisted for the Crossword Vodafone Book Award for global South Asian fiction in 2010. In…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Sonia Saikaley was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada to a big Lebanese family. The daughter of a shopkeeper, she had access to all the treats she wanted. Her first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. She has two poetry collections Turkish…
Toronto
Toronto
Dr. Kathleen Saint-Onge is a teacher and independent researcher living in the GTA. She holds an M.Ed. (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) from York University, and she is interested in some of the intersects between psychoanalysis and language, in particular through the work of Freud and…
Vancouver: traditional/unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples
Vancouver: traditional/unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples
Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s ground-breaking poetry book about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, children of air india, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. Her book, Listening to the Bees, co-authored with Dr. Mark…
Kingston
Kingston
Julie Salverson is a playwright, librettist, scholar and non-fiction writer who teaches at Queen’s University's Dan School of Drama and Music, and at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published essays about the artist as witness, atomic culture, ethics and the…
Toronto
Sam
Toronto
Eleanor Sam is a Toronto based novelist, born on a sugar plantation in Guyana, South America, with West and Central African ancestry. Her two novels are The Wisdom of Rain, 2nd edition, Isalea Publishing 2022 and Manor on the Viridian Sea, Isalea Publishing 2023. Eleanor has a B…
Calgary
Calgary
Nadine Sander-Green grew up in Kimberley, B.C. She has spent the past decade living and writing throughout British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Ontario. Nadine completed her MFA from the University of Guelph and now lives in Calgary. Her stories can be found in the Globe and…
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Barbadian parents in 1968, Robert Edison Sandiford is a short story writer, graphic novelist, novelist, freelance editor, and journalist. After obtaining a BA in English Literature from McGill University in 1990, he worked briefly as a clerk for a…
Moncton
Moncton
Janet Coulter Sanford enjoyed a 30-year career as a high school English teacher. An avid reader herself, she fostered a love of reading in many students.  Throughout her career, she advocated for Canadian literature in the classroom and championed Canadian writers at every…
Victoria
Victoria
Susan Sanford Blades (first name: Susan, last name: Sanford Blades) lives on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking people–the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations (Victoria, BC). Her debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a…