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Maure, Melanie

Nelson

Melanie

Maure

Nelson

Melanie Maure is a writer and Life Coach, and she holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology. She is third-generation Irish and was born and raised in Dresden, Ontario. Currently, she lives in central British Columbia. Her time spent in Ireland has been an enduring inspiration…

maviglia, joseph

Toronto

joseph

maviglia

Toronto

Biography Joseph Maviglia In the great tradition of spoken word, performance poets and singer-songwriters, Joseph Maviglia is renowned for his energized musical performances, written text and non-fiction essays. Born in Ottawa, he attended the prestigious Banff Centre for the…

Mawhiney, A-M

Sudbury

A-M

Mawhiney

Sudbury

A-M Mawhiney is a life-long educator and author of Spindrifts (2021) short-listed for the 8th annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize and of Spelldrifts (2023) . She lives in Northern Ontario.

Maylor-Kovitz, Micheline

Calgary/Canmore

Micheline

Maylor-Kovitz

Calgary/Canmore

Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Raymond Souster Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She is a…

Maynard, Rona

Rona

Maynard

Rona Maynard's memoir, My Mother's Daughter, tells the universal story of how a woman becomes herself because of, and in spite of, the woman who formed her--her mother. Alice Munro has called the book "wonderfully honest and enthralling."In a previous life as Editor of…

Mayne, Lise

Nanton

Lise

Mayne

Nanton

Lise Mayne, author, lives in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. Historical injustice and the search for home are central themes of her work. Her novel Becoming Sand, presented a fictional Francophone family’s history in Canada. Her new novel Time Enough, Oprelle Publications 2024, is the…

Mayse, Susan

Susan

Mayse

Susan Mayse writes fiction and nonfiction.

Mazigh, Monia

Ottawa

Monia

Mazigh

Ottawa

Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels celebrated by the critique, an essay and a collection of short stories.Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book…

McAdam, Rhona

Victoria

Rhona

McAdam

Victoria

Rhona McAdam grew up mainly on Vancouver Island, then spent 14 years in Edmonton, and 12 years in London, England before returning to live in Victoria in 2002. She has degrees in English, Library/ Information Science, and Communications Planning, and spent a year in Parma,…

McBride, Karen

Karen

McBride

Karen McBride is an Algonquin Anishnaabe writer from Timiskaming First Nation. She loves to write stories about truth, healing, and magic. Her debut novel, Crow Winter, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards, the PMC Indigenous Literature Award, and the Sunburst Award for…

Abbotsford

Abbotsford

I'm the author of the Rancour Chronicles, Flying Feet, Children of Ruin, The Three Spartans and Spartan at Sea. I have written book reviews for CM magazine and have taught countless workshops for schools, school divisions, libraries, universities, BCLA, BCTELA, Writer’s Union…

McCaslin, Susan

Langley

Susan

McCaslin

Langley

Susan McCaslin has published nineteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Named & Nameless (Inanna Publications, 2025). Her handcrafted chapbook, Sentient Stones (Raven Press) came out in June 2023. In Dec. 2022 her poem, "Consider the Western Red Cedar" won…

McConnell, Kathleen

Fredericton

Kathleen

McConnell

Fredericton

In her final term at high-school Kathy Mac lived in a boarding house because her family had moved to the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan; upon graduating she joined them, for several months working as a teaching assistant in a school for expatriates’ children in Tarbella…

McCool, Gael

Halfmoon Bay

Gael

McCool

Halfmoon Bay

Gael McCool lives, teaches and writes in Halfmoon Bay BC. She is in the process of publishing her second book. www.gaelmccool.com

McCormack, Judith

Toronto

Judith

McCormack

Toronto

Judith McCormack was born outside Chicago, and grew up in Toronto, with brief stops in Montreal and Vancouver. She has several law degrees, which have mostly served to convince her that law is a branch of fiction. Her first short story was nominated for the Journey Prize, and…

Toronto

Toronto

Rosemary McCracken is the author of the five-book Pat Tierney mystery series: Safe Harbor, Black Water, Raven Lake, Uncharted Waters, and Riversong. Rosemary was a finalist for Crime Writers of Canada's Unhanged Arthur Award, Britain's Debut Dagger, and the Derringer Award. Her…

McCrimmon, B. Marilyn

Victoria

B. Marilyn

McCrimmon

Victoria

Marilyn McCrimmon was a secondary/post-secondary counsellor in Victoria, B.C. for more than 30 years, and has been a freelance writer for more than 40 years. She has published countless feature articles on a wide variety of topics (fitness, health, sport, profiles, travel, etc…

McCrum, Rachel

Montréal

Rachel

McCrum

Montréal

Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoired’encrier in Fall 2020. It was a finalist for the Le…

Toronto

Regina

Regina

Anne McDonald’s latest book, Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles, is the chronicle of a young unmarried woman’s experiences in the social whirlwind of Confederation. Anne is an award-winning author whose novel, To the Edge of the Sea won the Saskatchewan First…

McDonald, Ian

McDonald, Bernadette