Essayist, poet, critic, free-range literary animal. Author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, and six other books of nonfiction and poetry. Prairie-born, Ontario-dwelling, grateful guest on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory.

Janice MacDonald is a writer of mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction titles, and stories for both children and adults. She is best known for writing a series featuring amateur sleuth Miranda "Randy" Craig. The Randy Craig Mysteries were the first detective series to be set in…

J. Hugh MacDonald was born in Charlottetown, PEI. He graduated from St. Dunstan's University in 1968. He retired after teaching more than thirty-one years in June of 1999. He and his wife Sandra live in Brudenell, PEI beside the Montague River. They enjoy travel, especially to…

Hugh R. MacDonald is a graduate of Cape Breton University and recently retired from a career in the human service field. He has been a member of the Writers' Union of Canada for many years, as well a long time member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. After a number of…

Gloria Macher is a representative of contemporary humanist literature. She writes poetry and fiction by exploring social, political, ecological, and existential themes that fuel reflection on our human condition. The author has published five novels, a collection of short…

R.P. MacIntyre works primarily as a fiction writer and editor although he has also written for radio, television and the stage. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1947 and makes his home in Christina Lake, B.C. and La Peñita de Jaltemba, Nayarit, MX with Sharyn. He has…

Wendy MacIntyre lives in Carleton Place, Ontario where she supports herself as a freelance writer and editor. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. In addition to the novels listed below, she has published short…

Carol L. MacKay’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Devour: Art & Lit Canada, The Fiddlehead, Watershed (U of California, Chico), Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review, Red Berry Review, Lichen, Existere, and Crannog (Ireland). Her work is also included in Shy: An…

Elly MacKay is the author and illustrator of several picture books, such as Red Sky at Night, Butterfly Park and If You Hold A Seed. She is known for her unusual illustrations using light and paper. She lives in Owen Sound, Ontario with her family. 

Richard Somerset Mackie has an honours M.A. in mediaeval and modern history from the University of St. Andrews. He is the publisher of The British Columbia Review in Vancouver. 

My newest book is entitled The Premier and His Grandmother: Peter Lougheed, Lady Belle and the Legacy of Metis Identity. My next book is an edited collection entitled Metis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition, now available through pre-orders. My interest in sharing the stories of…

Two of Jill MacLean's novels for middle-grade readers ("The Nine Lives of Travis Keating" and "The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy") won The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature, as did her YA free verse novel, "Nix Minus One." Her third middle-…

Wendy has been blissfully free to follow the Spirit wherever it leads. This has taken her in and out of conventional roles, from her birth in Toronto and childhood in the suburbs of Montreal, to a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in English and Classics and training in…

Kyo Maclear was born in London, England and moved to Canada at the age of four. She is a Toronto-based visual arts writer, novelist and children's author. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Shambhala Sun, Saturday Night, The Guardian, Canadian Art, Brick, This…

Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and movement teacher (yoga, Feldenkrais Method), who leads 'body-centred writing' workshops. She recently completed her first book of poetry. Her nonfiction book, In Praise of Retreat, won a Gold Independent Book Publishers' Award in 2021, and…

Logan Macnair was born in Williams Lake, British Columbia and is currently based in Burnaby. His second novel, Troll (2023, Now Or Never Publishing), explores the nature of connection, alienation, and the occasional ugliness of the modern digital age. His debut novel Panegyric …

Margaret Macpherson (she/her) has lived and written in Yellowknife, Halifax, Bermuda, Edmonton, Vancouver and Nelson, BC. She has recently decamped  to Eastern Ontario. She is the author of eight books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her newest work Tracking the Caribou Queen:…

Tamara has three “boys” aged 13, 15 and 49, and is the guardian of quirky second-hand dogs. Journalism and political science degrees from Carleton University paved the way for Tamara to serve as a voice for several not-for-profit organizations spanning two decades. A writer and…

Roy MacSkimming is the author of four novels and three works of non-fiction.  His historical novels recreate the personal lives of two great Canadian political leaders. Macdonald (Thomas Allen, 2007) portrays the final days of Canada's controversial first prime minister, Sir…

Darlene Madott is an award-winning writer who practised law in Toronto for more than 35 years. Author of a growing number of books, her 9th and most recent work, WINNERS AND LOSERS (Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss) Guernica, spring, 2023, offers a front-row seat onto the field…