Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
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Kingston and also Kitchizibi Metis Territory (Ottawa/Mattawa River)
Kingston and also Kitchizibi Metis Territory (Ottawa/Mattawa River)
I am a Metis writer/author currently living in Kingston, Ontario. I am originally from the North Bay and Mattawa area. I am a citizen of the Metis Nation of Ontario. My ancestral territory is the Ottawa River (Kitchizibi) Valley and the Mattawa River Region. This vast, majestic…
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Mississauga
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Toronto
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Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast
Janine Alyson Young's debut short story collection Hideout Hotel (Caitlin Press 2014) was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, and her work has appeared in Event Magazine and the anthology Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts. She has an MFA from UBC’s Creative…
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Martensville
Martensville
I am, in alphabetical order, an editor, a mother, a poet, a retired educational assistant, a widow, and a writer. I was born and raised in Saskatchewan, albeit in many different communities. I now live in Martensville, which is a small city just north of Saskatoon. I have been…
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Toronto
Toronto
Danielle Younge-Ullman is the award-winning author of the young adult novels, HE MUST LIKE YOU, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS NOT RUINED, and LOLA CARLYLE’S 12 STEP ROMANCE, and the adult novel, FALLING UNDER. Danielle’s work has been published internationally, and nominated for…
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Blair Palmer Yoxall (he/him/his) is an award-winning writer, author, and poet of Métis and settler parentage from Alberta. His fiction and poetry fiction have appeared in Glass Buffalo, The Fiddlehead, and Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology, and his fiction…
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Melissa Yi, also known as Melissa Yuan-Innes, escapes from her work as an emergency physician by writing her way into different worlds, from a Chinese Cinderella to the critically acclaimed Hope Sze medical thrillers to her bestselling memoir, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the…
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Toronto
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Winnipeg
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Montreal
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Toronto
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Toronto
Victoria
Victoria
Alex is the author of “Becoming Coastal – Twenty-five years of exploration and discovery of the BC Coast by paddle, oar and sail” and numerous magazine articles about boats, boatbuilding and the people who sail them. Alex has been an avid outdoorsman and sailor all his adult…
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Guelph
Guelph
Author of At the Pond (Scholastic 2019) , Snow Day (Scholastic 1999) and the Alphonse series of books, Werner also illustrates for other authors: Helaine Becker ( 2014 Libris Award winner 2010 Porcupine in a Pine Tree) and Jean Little (2003 Mr Christie Award winner Pippin the…
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Montreal, QC
Montreal, QC
Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, Canada. She has published over a dozen chapbooks and books of poetry. Her work has appeared in periodicals and anthologies, her poetry set to music, recorded and broadcast. She studied at the University of Rochester, New York, and received…
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Montreal
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Victoria