Keri Cronin is a professor, writer, and art historian. She is the author of Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 (Penn State University Press, 2018) and Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper…

Connie Brummel Crook taught English in Ontario’s public secondary schools for thirty years.  She has two daughters and five grandchildren. Her first husband, Rev. Reginald Brown, died when their daughters were eleven months and two-and-a-half years old.  She married Albert Crook…

Marion Crook has had a long career in writing. She wrote Young Adult and Middle Grade novels as well as non-fiction around issues such as adoption (Thicker Than Blood Arsenal Pulp, The Face in the Mirror Arsenal Pulp), Suicide (Out of the Darkness Arsenal Pulp). Recently she has…

“The Marie Kondo of Digital” —Harper’s Bazaar Christina Crook is a pioneer and leading voice of digital well-being. She is the award-winning author of The Joy Of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World and Good Burdens: How to Live Joyfully in the Digital Age. Her…

L. D. Cross is an Ottawa non-fiction writer of business and lifestyle articles, op-ed features and books in the Amazing Stories series about unique aspects of Canadian history. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers and online in Canada and the United States. Her…

Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis poet, writer, and editor born on Treaty 3 (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 (Prince Albert, SK), and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, cka Vancouver. Molly has a BA…

Kevin Crowley is an award-winning journalist and the author of the satirical novel, Sir Middling U. He spent nearly 20 years in journalism, writing for daily newspapers and magazines, and contributing to CBC Radio. His work has won a number of awards, including a Michener Award…

Bruce grew up along the Corso Italia neighbourhood in Toronto, the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. An alumnus of North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where he found a piqued interest in Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and …

Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Lorna Crozier has published poems in numerous magazines and anthologies and seven books. She's taught at various summer schools, including the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and the Banff School of Fine Arts; and has also been writer-…

Sheilah Currie has had a varied career—first as an actor, then a school teacher, and now a children’s book author and early literacy advocate. She figures it won’t matter whether books are digitized or pulp’n’paperized if people can’t read. With her friend and writing partner,…

Susan Currie is an elementary teacher in Brampton, Ontario (22 years and counting). Before she entered the public school system, she earned a living as an accompanist, music director, choir director, dinner musician, leader of various music programs for children, and piano…

Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer from Moose Jaw who taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School of th Arts and at The Sage Hill Writing Experience.  The author of 13 books, he feels blessed to have served two terms as Saskatchewan Poet Laureate and to have delivered the…

Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023), The Inquisition Yours (…

Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people that have been published around the world. Her most recent works are the nonfiction picture books City of Neighbors, City Streets are for People, A Forest in the City and City of Water (the ThinkCities series from…

Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,…

I am a writer, literary translator, and journalist. I am a co-founder and publisher of Accenti, an English-language cultural magazine, and of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works that celebrate cultural diversity. As a photojournalist for an international NGO…

Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years…

Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the…

Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full length…