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Budgell, Anne

Budhathoki, Arun

Edmonton

Arun

Budhathoki

Edmonton

Arun Budhathoki is a poet and writer originally from Nepal, now residing in Edmonton, AB, Canada. His work has been featured in international literary journals, and his previous poetry collection, Prisoner of an iPad: New Poems (2014), received critical acclaim. A guest author…

Toronto

Vancouver

Vancouver

Greg Buium has spent more than two decades working as a journalist in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. His articles on culture have appeared in the Believer, the Walrus, CBC.ca, and most of Canada’s metropolitan dailies, including the Globe and Mail …

Bulmer, Rhonda

Moncton

Rhonda

Bulmer

Moncton

Rhonda Bulmer is a Moncton, New Brunswick-based author with a background in public relations and freelance writing, and currently serves as executive director for the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. She has published three fiction books independently, and in 2023, her…

Toronto

Toronto

Ella Burakowski was born to Holocaust survivors, Shoshana Gold and Fishl Burakowski, who met after the war in Foehrenwald, a displaced person's camp in Germany. Together they smuggled on an Aliyah Bet ship to make a new life for themselves in Israel. Ella and her older…

Burford-Mason, Aileen

Toronto

Aileen

Burford-Mason

Toronto

Aileen Burford-Mason is a Canadian biochemist, immunologist, and author. Born in the UK she grew up in Ireland. After completing a B.Sc. in biology and biochemistry at University College Dublin, she later completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK…

Burgess, Kayt

Kayt

Burgess

Dr. Kayt Lackie (pen name Kayt Burgess) was born in Manitouwadge, Ontario and grew up in Elliot Lake. She studied classical music at the University of Western Ontario, publishing at Humber College, and creative writing at the University of Auckland and Bath Spa University. Her…

Burnell, Sapha

Vancouver

Sapha

Burnell

Vancouver

“Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion.” Sapha Burnell teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down. The product of Vancouver’s multiculturalism, Sapha steeped in divergent cultures, religious experiences and…

Burnett, Finnian

Princeton

Finnian

Burnett

Princeton

Finnian Burnett is a writer whose work explores the intersections of the human body, mental health, and gender identity. They are a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts grant, a finalist in the 2023 CBC nonfiction prize, and a 2024 Pushcart nominee. Their work appears…

Burningham, Bradd

Windsor, ON

Bradd

Burningham

Windsor, ON

Bradd Burningham grew up in Essex, Ontario, and has lived in Windsor, Cambridge, Toronto, Ottawa, London, Saskatoon, and Sackville (New Brunswick). He studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Windsor (B.A, M.A), and the University of Western Ontario (M.L.S.). He…

Guelph

Ottawa

Ottawa

Kevin Burns is an Ottawa-based writer, editor, and researcher with a focus on broad cultural and social issues. He has seen some 300 books make their way into print in the commercial and academic publishing worlds. He has an extensive background in publishing, having developed…

Burrows, Bruce

Sointula

Bruce

Burrows

Sointula

Bruce Burrows started his fishing career underwater, abalone diving. Fortunately it didn’t end there. His diving career took him to Scotland where he worked in the North Sea oilfield. After 6 years he had accumulated 286 days living in a decompression chamber. “One more season…

Bursey, Jeff

Edmonton

Jeff

Bursey

Edmonton

Jeff Bursey was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. His plays have been performed in St. John's and Charlottetown, his fiction has appeared online and in print, and his scholarly articles and literary criticism have been published in…

Burtch, Dr. Brian Eric

North Vancouver

Dr. Brian Eric

Burtch

North Vancouver

Brian completed a B.A. (Sociology) at Queen's University, an M.A. (Criminology) at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D (Sociology) at the University of British Columbia. He had a full-time appointment for 30 years in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and was…

Burton, Wendy

Hornby Island

Wendy

Burton

Hornby Island

My debut novel Ivy’s Tree was published by Thistledown Press in September 2020.I completed a fourth draft of Millicent, the fictionalised account of my great-great-grandmother’s life in London’s East End in the 1850s. My work with this manuscript earned me a Letter of…

Catherine Bush's latest work is the story collection, Skin (2025). She is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe and Mail Best Book and Hamilton Reads 2021 Selection; the Canada Reads long-listed Accusation (2013); the Trillium Award short-listed…

Bushkowsky, Aaron

Vancouver

Aaron

Bushkowsky

Vancouver

Aaron Bushkowsky A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright, film-writer, poet, novelist, and educator. His plays have been produced across Canada and have received 9 Jessie Richardson Theatre (Vancouver Theatre awards) nominations over the last 14 years…

Bustin, Pam

Chapleau

Pam

Bustin

Chapleau

Pam Bustin was born in Regina SK and raised in a host of small towns across the prairies. She currently lives MOSTLY in Chapleau Ontario with a lovely man and 10,001 books - though she still tends to wander. Pam’s play Saddles in the Rain had its world premiere at 25th…

Butala, Sharon

Sharon

Butala

Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, she has spent the last thirty years on a ranch in the southwest near the Saskatchewan-Montana border. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, but didn't begin writing until she was 38, publishing her first book at 44. She is married to…

Butcher, Kristin

Campbell River

Kristin

Butcher

Campbell River

Teacher, mother, grandmother, and former child—Kristin Butcher taps all these resources when creating her books for young people. Kristin published her first middle grade novel in 1997 and hasn't looked back since. She now has 30 books for young people—fiction and non-fiction—…

Butcher, Alan

Alan

Butcher

Alan D. Butcher was born in Vancouver, B.C. and has been writing all his life. "I wasn't much good at anything else--and my former employers will agree with me on that." He has written advertising copy, worked in the Canadian arctic, and wrote and produced the Chase Almanac for…