Victoria Hetherington writers and talks about relational AI, culture, and health, is the CBC Season Host of ‘Understood: ‘Artificial Intimacy’ and is an AI ethics consultant. She is the author of four books: two critically acclaimed literary science-fiction novels: Amazon First…

Renée Hetherington obtained a BA in business and economics from Simon Fraser University in 1981, an MBA from theUniversity of Western Ontario in 1985, and an interdisciplinary PhD in anthropology, biology, geography, and geology from the University of Victoria, British…

K.P. Heyming (KPH) is a bilingual writer with deep roots, a full heart, and a yearning to set her soul in ink and paper with the help of an old, dusty typewriter. In her writing, she displays the most fragile emotions through the exploration of an ordinary life.   …

Caitlin Hicks is an author, international playwright, and acclaimed performer, storyteller and presenter in British Columbia, Canada. "My life and work have been profoundly affected by the central circumstance of my existence: I was born into a very large military Catholic…

Christine Higdon's novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue (ECW Press) was nominated for the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading 2025 Evergreen Award. Her first novel, The Very Marrow of Our Bones, (ECW Press) won the Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize –…

Rebecca's first book, a collection of short stories called The Colours of Birds, was published by Tightrope Books in 2018. The title story first appeared in The Antigonish Review (2008), and her story "The White Stain" won second place in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest in…

Born in Toronto, Nova Scotia has been Hill-Lehr’s home since 1985 – except when she lived in New Zealand and in Scotland. She holds a BA (Theatre Studies), MA (English), and M.Ed. (Counselling) – all from Acadia University. She has diverse interests, but writing is her passion.…

Robert Hilles divides his time between Nanaimo, BC and Khon Kaen, Thailand. He won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Cantos from A Small Room and has published twenty-four books including eighteen books of poetry. His twenty-fifth book will appear in 2023 and…

Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Wei-Chiun pronounced "Way Jun") is a Taiwanese Canadian writer, whose short stories and personal essays have appeared in PRISM international, Pulp Literature, Ricepaper Magazine, River Teeth, Room and several anthologies. A champion of literary…

After 27 years in Calgary, dee Hobsbawn-Smith now resides in Treaty Six Territory, on family land west of Saskatoon with her husband, the writer Dave Margoshes, and their pets. Dee's poetry, essays, fiction, food writing, and journalism has appeared in newspapers, magazines,…

Deborah Hodge is the author of thirty-five books for children. She specializes in writing about nature and ecology for young readers and loves the challenge of using few words to explain big thoughts. She also enjoys writing picture books and is delighted by the interplay…

Jack Hodgins was born in Comox on Vancouver Island in 1938, and raised in the logging community of Merville. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, he moved--with his wife Dianne--to Nanaimo, where he taught high school English until 1979. He has been a writer…

After a career that spanned areas from space hardware engineering to books and podcasts on etymology Charles has decided that there is nothing more worthy of his time than trying to stimulate solutions to climate change. To that end he dedicates his time to constructive…

Andrea/ Andy Hoff (she/her) is a graphic novelist, nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary media artist. She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Language & Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where she co-creates comics about the future with young people as a…

C.E. Hoffman (they/them) is a screenwriter, author, poet, publisher, and cat lover (not necessarily in that order.) A grant winner, Elgin Award nominee, recipient of a Silver Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May…

Canadian-born of Jamaican immigrant parents, Nadia L. Hohn is an award-winning author, educator, and diverse children's literature advocate and “artivist”.  Nadia L. Hohn is the author of Malaika’s Costume (2016) which was the 2021 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.  Her…

Pauline Holdstock writes literary fiction, essays and poetry. Her books have been published in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Australia, Brazil and Portugal as well as in Canada, where her work has been featured on CBC radio and named a finalist for the Giller prize. Her fiction…