Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.

Natalee A. Johnson (Naj) is a graduate of Niagara University with a B.A in Professional Studies in Education, graduate of the University of Victoria with a B.A in Child and Youth Work, Diploma in Court and Tribunal Administration and Early Childhood Educator from Seneca College…

Hello everybody—late bloomer here! To contact me or to hear me read a chapter from my memoir They Left Us Everything, or to see behind-the-scenes videos, please visit my website at: https://plumjohnson.com  

 Sandi Johnson is interested in imaginative work that is socially relevant. "The Comfort of Angels," a fictional work, is based on her experience of working with Ojibwa Indians in northwestern Ontario. It portrays dignified characters who desire freedom and a better life. "…

Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been…

Terry Lynn Johnson has been a dog musher with eighteen sled dogs, a wilderness park ranger, and currently works as a conservation officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources in northern Ontario. Terry's novels have been recognized by Bank Street College Best Books, ABA Best…

George M. Johnson was born in 1961 in Waterdown, Ontario. In 1984 he received an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he held a S.S.H.R.C. doctoral fellowship. Since 1991 he…

Gordon Johnston was born in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, in 1947. He studied at Trinity College in Toronto and then at Harvard before starting a teaching career at Trent University in Peterborough that lasted forty years until he retired in 2011. He organized the university's…

A.J.B. Johnston writes both fiction and history. John (or Jay) is originally from Truro, NS, and completed an MA in History at Dalhousie University, then a PhD at the Université Laval. He worked for Parks Canada for many years, with his time at the Fortress of Louisbourg being…

Simon's novel “The House of Wives," inspired by the lives of his mixed race family was published by Penguin Canada and Penguin India in 2016. His short stories have appeared in Ricepaper magazine and short fiction won the Friends of White Rock Library’s Writing Contest in 2015…

Liz Johnston lives and writes in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Humber Literary Review, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review, among other publications. She is an editor of the international literary magazine Brick. For more information,…

Gord and his wife, Teena, live in Toronto with their two cats, Crumpet and Muffin. Defending the Inland Shores: Newfoundland in the War of 1812 was his first published work. Saving Tiberius (2020) was his first fictional novel. On September 1, his new crime thriller,…

Detailed and productive researcher and writer specializing in social justice, public policy, history and culture, music and culture-related travel.  Published in September 2021, an award winning travel guide to the roots of the blues, co-authored with TWUC member Josephine…

Alana Jones has been a writer since the age of twelve after her mother encouraged her to write as a medium of expression. Born in Trinidad, she is fascinated by both the Written Word and the Oral Traditions inspired by her childhood memories and cultural heritage. A mother of…

Marianne is the award-winning author of 8 books, including her most recent literary novel, Maud and Me (Crossfield, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Resistance, (University of Regina Press,), Writing Menopause, (Inanna Publications), All We Can Hold (Sage Hill Press) and Indra`…

Kevin heronJones is currently serving as the City of Brampton's first ever Writer in Residence. He is a storyteller. Through prose or through poetry; novel or short story. He writes and he narrates in the tradition of the ancient African griots who used stories and poetry to…

Since 2006, New York Times bestseller Donna Jones Alward has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen languages. She’s worked as an administrative assistant, teaching…

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese andEuropean ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room, Body & Soul: Stories for Skepticsand Seekers, The Fiddlehead and The Humber Lit Review. She is a graduate of The Writer’…

David Jongeward’s writing over the past thirty years is a mix of academic, fiction and non-fiction. Born and raised in Bozeman, Montana, he has a MA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University, followed by PhD research at the University of British Columbia, and several…

Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. He is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories. His work has appeared in several literary journals and magazines…

Eve Joseph grew up on unceded Squamish territory (North Vancouver) and now lives in Victoria on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen people. Her latest book of poetry, Quarrels, was released in May 2018 by Anvil Press and won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2019. Her book about…