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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Saltspring Island
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Toronto
Ottawa
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Toronto
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St. Catharines
St. Catharines
National bestselling author Eve Silver writes for both adults and teens. She has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Eve's work won the OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award (2015), was shortlisted for the…
Regina
Regina
Judith Silverthorne has authored over a dozen books for publication, most of which are children's literary novels, while two are adult non-fiction, one is a picture book and another a YA novel. All feature Saskatchewan in some way, where she's lived most of her life in both…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Monica Silvie practiced law for over fifteen years before returning to her earliest passion, writing for children. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Monica has an Advanced…
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Charlottetown
Charlottetown
Bren Simmers is the author of four books of poetry, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn, 2010). Her first…
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D'Escousse
D'Escousse
Marjorie Simmins is the author of four non-fiction books: Coastal Lives (2014); Year of the Horse (2016); Memoir: Conversations and Craft (2020); and Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable (2021).
Simmins began her career as a freelance journalist…
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Toronto
Toronto
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…
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Antigonish
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Hamilton
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Ottawa
Ottawa
Michelle Sinclair worked for two decades on policy related to human rights. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland and the United States. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations from Spanish to English have appeared…
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Toronto
Ottawa
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island
Shanon Sinn is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat - a collection of eerie tales set in BC's Pacific Northwest. His writing and illustrations often focus on ghost…
Montréal
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Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Patricia Jane Skidmore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent most of her childhood growing up in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. For her, being a daughter of a child migrant was a shameful and often worrying experience. She didn’t feel that she belonged. There…