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Phillips, Deborah A.M.
Mont-Tremblant
Deborah A.M.
Phillips
Mont-Tremblant
Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe),B.A., M.F.A,  is an editor, poet, conference speaker and author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their own crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada…
Phinney, Sandra
Yarmouth
Sandra
Phinney
Yarmouth
Sandra Phinney is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose by-line and photos have appeared in over 70 publications. Her stories focus on everything from business to health, the environment, lifestyle and travel. She’s contributed to four travel guides including…
Pidgorna, Maria
Pierce, E. Alex
Sable River
Pietropaolo, Vincenzo
Pigeau, John
Pignat, Caroline
Caroline
Pignat
Caroline Pignat is the two-time Governor Generalʼs Award winning author of seven highly acclaimed novels. She writes contemporary YA, historical fiction, and free verse novels that dig into her characters through multiple forms and points of view. Back in high school, …
Pihac, Branko
Mississauga
Branko
Pihac
Mississauga
Canadian writer with Croatian heritage, Branko graduated radio-communications from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb with honors. His earliest stories appeared in the SF magazine SIRIUS when he was still a student. He was the owner of a small business, designing control…
Pike, Lisa
Lisa
Pike
*/ Lisa Pike was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied in France, worked in Italy, and completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New Quarterly, Exile, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations:…
Pilling, Marilyn Gear
Hamilton
Marilyn Gear
Pilling
Hamilton
Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is On Huron’s Shore (Demeter Press), five collections of poetry, one chapbook, Estrangement (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2017), and is the editor of a…
Pinkney, Jeff
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff
Pinkney
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff
Jeff Pinkney is a settler who splits his time living in Baden, Ontario (the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenodaunee peoples) and in Haliburton, Ontario (the traditional territory collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations). Jeff is a…
Pirani, Ayaz
Ayaz
Pirani
Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here (The Word Works, 2016), Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets (Mawenzi House, 2019) and How Beautiful People Are (Gordon Hill Press, 2022). His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Guest 16. Ayaz’s…
Pirbhai, Mariam
Waterloo
Mariam
Pirbhai
Waterloo
Mariam
Mariam Pirbhai is a creative writer and academic. She is the author of a book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), Winner of the 2024 Sarton Women's Book Award for nonfiction,  Honourable…
Piredda, Francesca
Pirie, Pearl
Alcove
Pearl
Pirie
Alcove
Pearl Pirie is a poet living in rural Quebec just outside of Ottawa. She has 4 trade collections out and a couple dozen chapbooks. She is a haikuist and generalist poet. She has run a small press since 2011. Her poetry has been published since 1991. She has written full time…
Pitt, Steve
Rutherglen
Steve
Pitt
Rutherglen
Steve Pitt has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 1980 he won the top Periodical Distributors Author’s Award for humour with a groundhog recipe article that was published in…
Pittaway, Kimberly
Piudik, Jaclyn
Toronto
Jaclyn
Piudik
Toronto
Jaclyn
Jaclyn Piudik is the author of The Dark Oar [English translations of Paul Celan's French self-translations] (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017), Seduction: Out of Eden, written collaboratively with Janet R. Kirchheimer (Kelsay Books, 2022),…
Pivato, Emma
Platana, Janette
Peterborough
Janette
Platana
Peterborough
Janette
Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Pohl-Weary, Emily
Nanaimo
Emily
Pohl-Weary
Nanaimo
Emily Pohl-Weary is the author of eight books, a play, and a girl pirate comic. Her latest young adult novel, How to Be Found, features a “grittier Nancy Drew” (Toronto Star) and “captures the angst and drama of teen life” (Zoomer). The Witch’s Circle, her 40-minute audio play,…
Polak, Monique
Montreal
Monique
Polak
Montreal
Monique Polak combines a busy life as a children's book author, freelance journalist and CEGEP teacher. She is the author of 29 books for young adults. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, renamed the QWF's…
Pole, Graeme
Hazelton
Graeme
Pole
Hazelton
Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of thirteen books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada, and two novels. His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.…
Polk, C. L.
Calgary
C. L.
Polk
Calgary
C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the CBC Canada Reads finalist The Midnight Bargain and the Nebula-winning, USA Today bestseller Even Though I Knew The End.…
Pollock Millar, Janet
Victoria
Janet
Pollock Millar
Victoria
Janet Pollock Millar is a writer, editor, and educator living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria, British Columbia. She has credentials from Simon Fraser University, McGill University, and the University of Winnipeg, and has taught writing and literature to adults. Janet writes…