Member Directory
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GUELPH
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Fredericton
Fredericton
Lynn writes poems, essays, reviews, and freelance pieces, also poems and stories for children. Born in Moncton, N.B., her first paying job was working in her parent’s independent bookstore, The Bookmark. She graduated with a B.A. in English (Honours) from the University of King’…
Edmonton
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Lauren B. Davis’s most recent works are EVEN SO, published by Dundurn Press in 2021, and named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Quill & Quire and the Winnipeg Free Press; THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, called “timely and important” by the Toronto Star, and “…
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Dartmouth
Dartmouth
Nicola Davison is a writer and photographer. Her first book, In the Wake (Vagrant Press) won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) won the 2023 Ann Connor…
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Burlington
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by the lake
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Toronto
Toronto
Michèle Dawson Haber is a Canadian writer, potter, and union advocate. She lives in Toronto and is working on a memoir about family secrets, identity, and step-adoption. Her writing has appeared in Oldster Magazine, The Brevity Blog, Salon, Manifest Station, and in the Modern…
Union Road
Union Road
Orysia is the firstborn child of Ukrainian immigrants. She learned to speak English (and several other languages for a short time) while playing with the children of other European immigrants in Sudbury, Ontario. She began her first novel about horses at age nine but ended up…
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Giulia De Gasperi was born in Italy and has lived in Canada, Scotland, and the USA. Her home is currently Dublin, Ireland.
She reads almost exclusively Canadian literature, in particular, books by hyphenated writers and she collects picture books, also mainly by Canadian…
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Toronto
Toronto
Deborah E. de Lange is a professor of sustainable international business. After many years in industry, Dr. de Lange obtained her PhD at the University of Toronto and published her PhD dissertation as a book entitled, Power and Influence: The Embeddedness of Nations. She has a…
Lake Country
Lake Country
Author of seven literary books (creative non-fiction and poetry) and co-editor of five academic texts (including Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social and Geopoetics in Practice), Dr. Sarah de Leeuw is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work …
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Burlington
Burlington
Paula de Ronde was born on the fabled island of Jamaica. She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Toronto to become a librarian who would work with children, teenagers and adults for almost 30 years. In the process, she rose in the ranks to become a leader at…
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Toronto
Toronto
Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several literary magazines. Anthony's first book, Barnacle Love, was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award.…
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Port Colborne
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KRESTOVA
KRESTOVA
Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph's Creative Writing MFA program and teaches Creative Writing at Selkirk College. Her previous publications include Waiting for the Cyclone, nominated for the 2017 Trillium and ReLit Awards, and the poetry chapbook The Desert of…
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Toronto
Toronto
Michael Dean is a writer living in Toronto. He has been a performance artist and sound poet, having performed across Canada and in Europe. He is one of the founding editors of the writers’ press Underwhich Editions, and was a guest-lecturer at the University of Toronto from 1996…
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Toronto