Member Directory
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Ottawa
Wellesley
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Kurt Kirchmeier is a Saskatchewan-based author and photographer who writes strange and fantastical stories for readers of all ages. His short stories and poems have appeared in more than fifty magazines and anthologies around the world. His coming-of-age horror novel THE ABSENCE…
Barrie, ON
Barrie, ON
Heather Kirk has written professionally for over 40 years, producing newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, radio scripts, translations, poetry, short stories, and novels. She has also taught writing for about 30 years in colleges and universities. Some of her books…
Toronto
Toronto
New Westminster
New Westminster
Jónína Kirton is a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007, where she is now an instructor. Although she acknowledges and is thankful for the teachings offered through academic institutions, she leans heavily into…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Curriculum Vitae - Literary
Education
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario - L.L.B. (J.D.) in 1983.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours) in 1980.
St. Albert High School, St. Albert, Alberta - Matriculation in 1976.
Legal career…
Calgary
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 finalist for…
Winnipeg
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…
Nelson
Vancouver
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…
Roberts Creek and Vancouver
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 …
Vancouver
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…
Vancouver
Toronto
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…
Toronto
Nelson
Edmonton
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…
