Mark Laliberte is a Windsor-based writer/artist/designer whose poems and pageworks have appeared in publications big and small, including Descant, Ink Brick, Poetry, prairie fire, Prefix Photo, subTerrain and Vallum. Recent solo books include asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther),…

Angélique Lalonde dwells on Gitxsan Territory north of Hazelton, BC. She is the author of Glorious Frazzled Beings, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Angélique was the recipient of the 2019 Journey Prize, holds a PhD in Anthropology, and has been…

Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of three books of poetry, Intimate Distances, Enter the Chrysanthemum, and Odes & Laments, as well as the children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. Her poetry has thrice been chosen for BC’s Poetry in Transit program. Shortlisted for the City…

Zoë Landale has published eight books, edited two books, and her work appears in over fifty anthologies. Her writing has won significant awards in three genres, including first in the Stony Brook University Short Fiction competition, National Magazine Gold for memoir, and first…

Marcy Lane draws inspiration from the rich tapestry of human behavior, crafting stories that spotlight ordinary Canadian women navigating life's most challenging situations. Her debut novel, A Mercy of Widows, published in August 2023, explores themes of grief and resilience,…

Catherine Lang won the Penny Wise Journalism Scholarship to attend the journalism program at Langara College in 1988, after which she moved on to community newspaper reporting and freelance writing.  These endeavours led to the publication of O'Bon in Chimunesu in 1996.…

Barbara Langhorst was born and educated in Edmonton, Alberta. After teaching for nearly 20 years at St. Peter's College in Saskatchewan, Langhorst has now moved back to Edmonton, where she teaches writing and is a mentor and editor.

Kateri Lanthier is a poet, essayist, and reviewer. Her books are Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011) and Siren (Signal Editions, Véhicule Press, 2017), which was longlisted for the 2018 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Poems from Siren have been included in four anthologies. Her…

Judith Lapadat, a Canadian writer, artist, and professor emeritus, has published 65 scholarly articles and chapters and co-authored an academic book. Her first poetry collection, Mixed Messages (Caitlin Press, 2002), followed a co-authored poetry book, Groping Our Way Beyond…

Margo LaPierre is a Canadian freelance editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She is newsletter editor of Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of poetry collective VII, who jointly authored Towers (Collusion Books, 2021) and Holy Disorder of…

Annette Lapointe (she/her) is originally from Saskatchewan, and now lives in Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta, where she teaches at Northwestern Polytechnic.  She is the author of four acclaimed books of fiction: Stolen (2006, nominated for the Giller Prize),…

Doretta Lau started watching horror movies at age nine and sketch comedy at eleven, which was probably why she ended up completing an MFA in Writing at Columbia University. She  spent her days in New York working in children’s publishing and her nights watching musicians…

Fisher Lavell is a working-class writer. Her first novel, A Seven Year Ache, was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award. She can often be seen at a distance, a row of blue hills on the horizon, walking the gravel roads and endless green fields of the Swan River Valley…

Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in Mi’kma’ki. His full-length collection of poems, Come One Thing Another, came out with Gaspereau Press in the fall of 2024. His chapbooks are Lawson Roy’s Revelation (Gaspereau Press,…

Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published three books of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012); Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2022) and This is About Angels, Women, and Men (2022),…

Robin D. Laws writes novels, short stories, web serials, a comic strip, and has contributed to a variety of new media projects. He was recently named Creative Director of a new fiction imprint, Stone Skin Press. His blog is a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative…