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De Sa, Anthony
Toronto
Anthony
De Sa
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.…
De Santis, Delia
de Waard, Sara
Port Colborne
Sara
de Waard
Port Colborne
Born and raised on the wrong side of the tracks, teacher, author and screenwriter Sara de Waard uses her past to create present and future pieces that comfort, inspire and entertain a wide range of audiences. She hopes to always find ways to give back to her heritage,…
Dean, Michael
Toronto
Michael
Dean
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…
Dean, Leesa
KRESTOVA
Leesa
Dean
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…
Deckha, Nitin
Toronto
Nitin
Deckha
Toronto
Nitin Deckha is the author of a collection of short stories, Shopping for Sabzi (2008) and has recently self-published his novel, The Real Estate of Things (2015). His fiction has been published in magazines, edited collections, and chapbooks and he has read his work…
Decter, Ann
Ann
Decter
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ann Decter moved to Toronto to study, and after sojourns elsewhere--New York City, rural Nova Scotia--settled into Toronto's vibrant women's writing and publishing community. She has a B.A. in history and an M.Ed. in philosophy and over a…
Decter, Michael
Decter, Nora
Winnipeg
Nora
Decter
Winnipeg
Nora Decter is a writer and teacher living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her first novel, How Far We Go and How Fast, won the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Award. She was the 2024-2025 writer-in-residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, where she worked with a record…
Deedrick-Mayne, Laurel
Deeth, Kelli
Toronto
Kelli
Deeth
Toronto
Kelli Deeth’s acclaimed second collection, The Other Side of Youth, published by Arsenal Press, was short-listed for a ReLit Award. Kelli Deeth’s acclaimed first story collection, The Girl Without Anyone, published by HarperCollins, was chosen as one of The Globe and…
DeForge, Michael
Degler, Teri
Teri
Degler
Born in Idaho, Teri Degler received her M.A. from the University of New Mexico and is the author or co-author of eight non-fiction books. She has worked as a freelance writer for several years and her work has appeared in many diverse publications ranging from The Toronto Star…
DeGrass, Jan
Sechelt
Jan
DeGrass
Sechelt
Jan
Jan DeGrass writes in Sechelt, British Columbia, where she is former editor of Sunshine Coast Life magazine. She assists other authors with constructive critique (jandegrass.com.) and by her involvement with the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society. She has received a…
deGroot, Renny
Bewdley
Renny
deGroot
Bewdley
Renny
Renny deGroot is a first-generation Canadian of Dutch parents. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Whistler Independent Book Award and a Toby Award (for self-published Canadian mystery authors ). They have received several readers’…
DeKelver, Shirley
Sorrento
Shirley
DeKelver
Sorrento
Shirley was born in Calgary, and as an "army brat" travelled and lived in many places.  She worked in Calgary as a Corporate Administrator and Estates and Wills paralegal for over forty years. She retired in 2007 and moved with her husband Don to their "cabin…
Del Rizzo, Suzanne
DeLeskie, Jennifer
Montreal
Jennifer
DeLeskie
Montreal
Jennifer
Jennifer DeLeskie is a writer based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Fire, Exile Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, AE Presents: Unréal, The Colored Lens, and elsewhere. She is Prairie Fire's nominee for both the…
DeLuca, Marjorie (M.M.)
Winnipeg
Marjorie (M.M.)
DeLuca
Winnipeg
Marjorie (M.M.)
I was born in Durham City UK, then attended the University of London, and studied psychology before becoming a teacher and moving to Winnipeg I studied Advanced Creative writing with Pulitzer prizewinning author, Dr. Carol Shields, then became a professional novelist and…
Demchuk, David
St. John’s
David
Demchuk
St. John’s
David
"A master of bowel-loosening terror" (Globe & Mail), David Demchuk has been writing for stage, print and other media for more than forty years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First…
deMeulles, Richard
Sudbury
Richard
deMeulles
Sudbury
I am a writer and a builder. For over thirty-years I’ve helped harness the power of employees. I’ve led people in needs-identification initiatives, in building data-collection systems and in designing educational products. I’ve also built an organization from the ground up and…
DEMPSEY, SANDRA
TORONTO
SANDRA
DEMPSEY
TORONTO
With a keen sense of drama and a formidable wit, Sandra Dempsey writes complex plays inhabited by articulate, richly drawn and emotional characters.Uncomprimising and vital ~ powerful, compassionate and impassioned.Sandra is a popular performance-reader of her works. 
den Hartog, Kristen
Toronto
Kristen
den Hartog
Toronto
Kristen den Hartog is a novelist and non-fiction writer whose novels have won the Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year and been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Award. She is the co-author (with her sister Tracy Kasaboski) of two non-fiction books:…
Denman, KL
Delta
KL
Denman
Delta
KL
K.L. Denman began writing Young Adult fiction after reading the books of some talented authors and discovering the wonders of this fascinating genre. Her own children were teens at the time and between them, their friends, and her own memories, inspiration was plentiful. …
Denoon, Anne
Toronto
Anne
Denoon
Toronto
Anne
Anne Denoon was born long ago in Toronto. She studied art history at the University of Toronto in the 1960s, and again in the late 1970s, finally completing her degree in 1980. In the 1960s she worked at a travel agency in London, England, as a gallerina at the Carmen Lamanna…