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Klein, Seth
Vancouver
Seth
Klein
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…
Klein, Bonnie
Vancouver
Bonnie
Klein
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…
Klonsky, Ken
Vancouver
Ken
Klonsky
Vancouver
Ken Klonsky is the Director of Innocence International, an innocence project representing wrongly convicted people. A friend and colleague of the late Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the innocence work has shifted his writing career for the past ten years. He is the author of "Life…
Knaus, Maggie
Toronto
Maggie
Knaus
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…
Knight, Erin
Knight, Chelene
Harrison Hot Springs
Chelene
Knight
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…
Knowles, Valerie
Valerie
Knowles
Valerie Jean Knowles was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She obtained a B.A. (Honours, history) from Smith College, Northampton, Mass, and an M.A. (history) from McGill University before embarking on a career as a history instructor, archivist, and writer. She moved to…
Kogawa, Joy
Joy
Kogawa
Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1935 and graduated from high school in Coaldale, Alberta where her family was sent after WWII. She lives mainly in Toronto, Ontario.
Kohn, Sophie
Nelson
Sophie
Kohn
Nelson
Hi! My name is Sophie. I’ve been writing and publishing creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, and satire for 15 years. My stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Outpost, McSweeney’s, The Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, and Reader’s Digest, and…
Koller, Katherine
Edmonton
Katherine
Koller
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…
Kolpak, Diana
Courtenay
Diana
Kolpak
Courtenay
Diana
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta to a family filled with artists and entertainers, Diana create stories using poetry, fiction, drama, music, clown and photography as her media.Her children's book, Starfall, the whimsical tale of a clown searching for fallen stars, was …
Koncan, Frances
Couchiching First Nation
Frances
Koncan
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…
Kong, Ying
Konrad, Anne
Anne
Konrad
Born in northern Alberta, Anne J. Konrad was raised on a farm in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia and graduated from the University of British Columbia. She married Harvey L. Dyck, and taught in New York City, New Jersey, and Vienna. She did graduate work in history at the…
Koops, Victoria
Weyburn
Victoria
Koops
Weyburn
Victoria
VICTORIA KOOPS never stopped playing make-believe and often writes while wearing a tiara. Her stories are full of epic adventure and swoony romance, and navigate social issues through the power of fandom and geek culture. Her debut novel, WHO WE ARE IN REAL LIFE, will be…
Korman, Gordon
Thornhill, ON
Gordon
Korman
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…
Körner, Miriam
Air Ronge
Miriam
Körner
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…
Kory, Kristin
Hamilton
Kristin
Kory
Hamilton
Kristin Kory is a Canadian poet and author who discovered her passion for writing as a teenager growing up in Hamilton, Ontario.  Her poetry collection, Hungry for Ghosts, was re-released in 2023 by 300 South Media Group.  Kristin’s forthcoming book,…
Kosar, Richelle
Toronto
Richelle
Kosar
Toronto
Richelle
Richelle Kosar began her career as a dramatist.  Her first play, Earthbound, was adapted for television and produced by the CBC.  Other dramatic works followed, including "The Piano Store" and "The Girls in the Office."  Richelle has published two novels, The Drum…
Kostash, Myrna
Edmonton
Myrna
Kostash
Edmonton
Myrna Kostash lives in Edmonton, Alberta where she works full-time as a writer of literary nonfiction - books, magazine articles, and radio documentaries - and as occasional lecturer and teacher of creative writing. She is a past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and…
Koulack, David
Winnipeg
David
Koulack
Winnipeg
David Koulack was born in New York City. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Brandeis University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. He taught at Brooklyn College and Washington State University before starting the first sleep and dream laboratory at University of…
Koval, Anne
Sackville
Anne
Koval
Sackville
Anne lives in Sackville, NB, and teaches at Mount Allison University. She has published ekphrastic poetry and a biography Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision is being released by Goose Lane Editions in the fall of 2023.
Kovala, Liisa
Naughton
Liisa
Kovala
Naughton
Liisa
Liisa Kovala is a Finnish Canadian author and teacher. Her first book, Surviving Stutthof: My Father’s Memories Behind the Death Gate (Latitude 46, 2017), was shortlisted for a Northern Lit Award and published in Finland under the title Stutthofin selviytyjä (Docendo, 2020…
Kozak, W. Ruth
New Westminster BC
W. Ruth
Kozak
New Westminster BC
I  have been writing historicals since I was a very young girl. When I was 16 I became fascinated with the character of Alexander the Great and in my last year of highschool wrote a novel about him which was later sent to a publisher. The publisher suggested I wait til I…
Krakow, Eve
Montréal
Eve
Krakow
Montréal
Eve Krakow is the author of Voice Lessons, A Memoir in Essays (Guernica Editions, 2024). Her stories have appeared in Grain Magazine, The Nasiona, JMWW, Maisonneuve, lichen literary journal, Smithsonian Magazine and Shy: An Anthology. Through her writing, she seeks to…