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Klaassen, Heidi

Calgary

Heidi

Klaassen

Calgary

Heidi Klaassen (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Salon, Redivider, The Calgary Herald, Westword, Alberta Views, The Sprawl and various anthologies. Her personal essay, "Been Caught Stealing: Life Inside The Lorraine" was a…

Klassen, Sarah

Winnipeg

Sarah

Klassen

Winnipeg

I was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Manitoba's interlake. I completed high school and university in Winnipeg where I then taught high school English. Following retirement I taught English language in Lithuania and Kharkiv, Ukraine. I also taught English language and literature…

Klatte, Ross

Nelson

Ross

Klatte

Nelson

Ross Klatte was born in Minneapolis and raised on a Minnesota family farm. After service in the U.S. Navy and obtaining a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a reporter and editor in Chicago and Detroit before emigrating with his wife to…

Kleiber, Marilyn

Marilyn

Kleiber

Marilyn Kleiber, born in South Africa, but raised primarily in Canada, has been writing since childhood. She is an instructor in writing skills, an author, and a mentor to a variety of other scribblers. Everything she teaches as an instructor, she has used in her own works. Her…

Klein, Michael

Roberts Creek and Vancouver

Michael

Klein

Roberts Creek and Vancouver

Michael C. Klein , M.D., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P., F.A.A.P. (Neonatal/Perinatal), F.C.P.S.,Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at UBC, Senior Scientist Emeritus Child and Family Research Institute in Vancouver Best known for his RCT of episiotomy, demonstrating that it caused the…

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…

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…

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…

Harrison Hot Springs

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

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…

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 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 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…