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Hoff, Andrea

Vancouver

Andrea

Hoff

Vancouver

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…

Hoffman, C.E.

Edmonton

C.E.

Hoffman

Edmonton

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…

Hohn, Nadia

Toronto

Nadia

Hohn

Toronto

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…

Holdstock, Pauline

Pauline

Holdstock

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…

Holeman, Linda

Toronto

Linda

Holeman

Toronto

Linda received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a BEd in Special Education and MEd in Educational Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has crossed genres with her work, publishing both short story collections and novels for young adults and adults…

Hollenberg, Alexander

Hamilton

Alexander

Hollenberg

Hamilton

Alexander Hollenberg is a Pushcart-nominated poet, professor of storytelling, and the author of Human Story will not Consume the Cosmos (Gaspereau 2025). Some of his recent poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2025, CV2, Arc Poetry, Grain, and The New Quarterly. He is a…

Hollingshead, Greg

Toronto

Greg

Hollingshead

Toronto

Born in Toronto and educated in Toronto and London, Greg has published four story collections and three novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and former director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. He has won the Governor General's Award for…

Holz, Cynthia

Cynthia

Holz

Cynthia Holz is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in New York City and came to Toronto in 1976 as a Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. Her fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and…

Homel, David

Montreal

David

Homel

Montreal

David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952 of East European stock. He left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and lived in Europe and Toronto before moving to Montreal around 1980. He was educated in three countries and worked at a variety of industrial jobs before…

Honda, Keiko

Vancouver

Keiko

Honda

Vancouver

Keiko Honda is a scientist, writer, community organizer and painter. She holds a PhD in international community health from New York University, but when she suddenly contracted a rare autoimmune disease that confined her to a wheelchair for life, she had to leave her career in…

Hong, C.J.

Ottawa

C.J.

Hong

Ottawa

C.J. Hong is the award-winning author of the interactive picture book, Greetings, Floof!. As her passion beyond writing is promoting literacy, she loves volunteering at an elementary school to read with children. In her spare time, she practices Kung Fu Fan, dances, and spends…

Hoogendam, MERKAT Meredith Katie

Northumberland County

MERKAT Meredith Katie

Hoogendam

Northumberland County

I am a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community radio host & producer. My poems, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction appear in publications across the U.S. and Canada, including Room Magazine, Geez magazine, Mutha magazine, Opus, Dialogue, catapult…

Hoogland, Cornelia

Hornby Island

Cornelia

Hoogland

Hornby Island

Cornelia Hoogland is 2023 winner of the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award given by the League of Canadian Poets. Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award. Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011)…

Hope, Alyson

Montreal

Alyson

Hope

Montreal

Alyson Hope is a writer who currently lives in Montreal, the island of Tiohtià:ke – unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. In 2014, Hope received her Master’s Degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Based largely on ecocritical theory, her thesis…

Hoque is a presenter as an author and poet, Shahanaz

Mississauga

Shahanaz

Hoque is a presenter as an author and poet

Mississauga

BioShahanaz is a Canadian author, teacher, and spoken word presenter. She is a proud member of The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) and the League of Canadian Poets. Originally from Bangladesh, she arrived in Canada as a young woman and has since made it her mission to…

Horlick, Leah

Saskatoon

Leah

Horlick

Saskatoon

Leah Horlick is the 2022-2023 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distnguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. A writer and poet, her most recent collection, "Moldovan Hotel," was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut book…

Hosein, Jennifer

Toronto

Jennifer

Hosein

Toronto

Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, A Map of Rain Days, published by Guernica Editions in 2020, was longlisted for the League…

Hossack, Darcie Friesen

House, Oriah

Toronto

Oriah

House

Toronto

The focus of Oriah’s life and work has been an on-going inquiry into the nature of the sacred and the mystery of how we co-create meaning from the stories of our lives and communities. Raised in a small town in Northern Ontario, she was at home in the wilderness and drawn to the…

House, Yolande

Toronto

Housty, Jess

Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella

Jess

Housty

Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella

Jess H̓áust̓i is a parent, writer, and land-based educator from the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation in Bella Bella. They live and work in their unceded ancestral homelands where they focus their practice on community building, food sovereignty, and Indigenous culture and language…

Howald, Meg

London

Meg

Howald

London

As a novelist and script writer writer, Meg balances her writing time with teaching creative writing at Fanshawe College (London, Ontario). The new year has bought a contract from World Castle Publishing for a new mystery thriller. We are thrilled to receive 4 and 5 star…

Penticton

Calgary

Calgary

Barb Howard is a Calgary multi-genre author who has published five books of literary fiction and more than 50 short stories and essays in magazines, journals, and anthologies across Canada. Her recent experience as a mentor includes the 2024 Writers’ Guild of Alberta mentorship…

Howard, Sean

Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sean

Howard

Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sean Howard is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Trinity: Tribute Sequences for Robert Graves (Gaspereau Press, 2022) and Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems, Then as Now (Gaspereau Press, 2021). His poetry as been widely published in Canada, as well as the US, UK and…