Member Directory
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Victoria
Victoria
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique’s writing, speaking engagements and online courses is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Monique’s novel, Tilly and the Crazy…
Pain Court
Pain Court
Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text Teaching,…
Scarborough
Markham
Markham
Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.”
His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…
RR#1 Carrying Place
RR#1 Carrying Place
John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada. He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines. John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column for a group of…
Toronto
Vancouver and Montreal
Vancouver and Montreal
Naava Smolash teaches in the English department at Douglas College and holds a PhD in English Literature from SFU. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in popular and academic publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian…
Toronto
Toronto
Edmonton
Edmonton
Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…
Montreal
Montreal
A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2023. Her most recent book is Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future (University of…
Montréal
Toronto
Toronto
Vancouver
Vancouver
Niloufar-Lily Soltani (Lily) is a literary and crime fiction writer, poet, and poetry translator. Her poems have been published in literary magazines such as Strange Horizons and Dissident Voices. Zulaikha, Lily’s debut novel is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2023 by…
Toronto
Toronto
Janet Somerville taught English literature & creative writing for 25 years in Toronto. She is privileged to have ongoing access to Martha Gellhorn's restricted papers in Boston. She is currently working on a book about Morley Callaghan, Canada's first writer to make his…
Vancouver