Julie Lawson was born in Victoria, B.C. and graduated from the University of Victoria with an Honours B.A. in French. She lived and taught in France, travelled extensively, and settled in rural East Sooke on Vancouver Island. She taught elementary school for 18 years. She now…

Sharon Lax is a teacher and author. Her collection of short stories, Shattered Fossils (2020), is available through Guernica Editions. She is ever grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts’ assistance in developing her latest collection of poetry that explores the loss we’re…

An award-winning writer on the history of exploration and cartography, and on history of natural history of Vancouver Island. Resident in Victoria, B.C. For details please see website

Jennifer is a small business marketing author and speaker. Located in Pembroke, Ontario, Jennifer has been working with small businesses for nearly 20 years. In 2023, she published her first book – Forward Thinking for Your Business – after noticing that many small business…

Eve Lazarus is a reporter and author and she hosts and produces the Cold Case Canada true crime podcast. Her books include the BC bestsellers Cold Case BC; Murder by Milkshake; Sensational Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City's Hidden History. Her latest…

Anna Lazowski wrote her first picture book for a class assignment in the sixth grade and has been creating stories ever since. Now an award-winning senior producer at CBC Radio, Anna has an MA (Journalism) from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA (Hons.) from the…

Anne Lazurko is an award-winning author, a no-awards farmer, and sometime poet. Her novel, What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press, 2022) received the Sask Book Awards Fiction Award and was shortlisted for both Book of the Year and the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award.…

Pauline has been spinning songs and stories ever since she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Voice in 1975  from the University of Alberta. She is an award-winning screenwriter, award-winning novelist, a playwright, journalist, editor, recently published poet, and…

Sara Leach is the author of nine books for children, including her most recent book, Duck Days. Its companion book, Slug Days, was a finalist for a Foreword Indie Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Penguin Days was a Bank Street Best…

Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. She was the Managing Editor at Canthius from 2022-2025. Amy’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) was long listed for the 2021…

James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1973. At the time his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed.  Besides working as a teacher in Canada, Japan and Kuwait he enjoys travelling. He has had the good fortune to visit…

Dale's two books have both been extended best sellers. His recent book, The Scenic Geology of Alberta: A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide, has topped the best seller lists across the province since it came out in April. Dale’s first book Rocks, Ridges, and…

Joanne Lecuyer is an independent author of children's books. Since 2010, Joanne has channeled her love of magic, fairies, elves, witches, dragons, and even vampires into positive fantasy chapters and picture books for kids and the young at heart. Her stories are full of…

Dennis Lee was born in 1939 in Toronto, where he writes full time. Known for adult and children's poetry, as a song lyricist, and a literary editor.

Sheun Lee, a clinical pharmacist with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, is also an accomplished children’s picture book author writing in Cantonese, English, French, and Mandarin. Hailing from Canada and a heritage Cantonese speaker,…

Jen Sookfong Lee’s first novel, The End of East (Knopf Canada, New Face of Fiction 2007), spans almost the entire 20th century and delves into the underside of Chinese Canadian history through the eyes of the Chan family. The National Post calls The End of East “impressive, both…

Y S Lee’s debut picture book, Mrs. Nobody (Groundwood Books), is inspired by a real-life imaginary friend who lived at her house for two very dramatic years. Her fiction includes The Agency tetralogy (Candlewick Press), which was translated into six languages and won the…