Born in Saudi Arabia, Saad moved to Pakistan before his first birthday. There, he survived three separate kidnapping attempts before he was eight. His family eventually settled in the United Arab Emirates. After initially enrolling in electrical engineering to please his…

M.A.C. Farrant is the author of nineteen works of fiction, memoir, non-fiction and plays. Her stage adaptation of My Turquoise Years premiered on April 10, 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre’s Granville Island Stage in Vancouver for a subsequent run of thirty-seven performances. The…

Mailing her homework to her great-grandfather was a Grade 4 assignment gone bad. But as with many mistakes, it had a good ending: the failed project set Sue on a path of writing every day as she accumulated more than 100 penpals throughout North America. That habit led her to a…

Author, Cynthia J Faryon, is an internationally published writer with 11 books to her credit as well as magazine articles and travel reviews in addition to 3 ghost written manuscripts. Her published works are informative, entertaining and are written with a heartrending clarity…

Marsha Faubert is a writer and lawyer with extensive experience in the Ontario administrative justice system. Her writing is concerned with themes of injustice in the lives of ordinary people. Her first book, Wanda’s War — An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a…

Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, Terri Favro is a Toronto-based freelance writer, novelist, essayist, storyteller and copywriter.  Terri is the author of Sputnik's Children (ECW 2017), an alt-reality novel described by Publisher's Weekly as "funny, touching, genre-…

The Quill & Quire describes Katherine Fawcett's new book "The Swan Suit" (Douglas & McIntyre, 2020) as "reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's more experimental short fiction." Her previous short story collection, "The Little Washer of Sorrows" (Thistledown, 2015) was a…

www.ThelmaFayle.com Thelma Fayle is a freelance writer. She earned a late-in-life MFA from the University of King’s College, School of Journalism (Dalhousie), a BFA in non-fiction writing and a Humanities Diploma from the University of Victoria. She studied Peace Research and…

Fecto is an author, cartoonist and composer. She publishes her comic strips and comic books since 2007 and is the editor of Fecto Productions. She has created numerous comic characters such as Les Champis, The Shroomies, Perfecto, The bees of BeeBee Ganoosh, Musika Tralala,…

Margot Fedoruk is the author of Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir (Heritage House, 2022). Her book recently won silver in Taste Canada's culinary narrative category in 2023. Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg and a Creative…

Trevor Ferguson was born in Ontario and raised in Montreal. After travelling hither and yon, he settled back in Montreal to write novels. He served as Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada in 1990-91. His novel, The Timekeeper, became a motion picture. In addition to his sixteen…

Toronto-based. Best selling author of children's non-fiction. Blogger. Social Media Influencer. Boredom Busters (Cico Books, 2014) -  Honour Book award 2016 Silver Birch Non-Fiction More Boredom Busters (Cico Books, 2015)  Caroline's two bestselling books are popular with…

Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her first collection of short fiction, Her Body Among Animals, is forthcoming September 2023 from Book*hug Press. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald…

Mona Fertig is a BC poet, publisher, editor and founder of The Literary Storefront, Canada’s first literary centre (1978-1985) and Mother Tongue Publishing. She grew up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano and Burnaby and went to the Vancouver School of Art. She has been writing poetry…

Joy Fielding was born and in Toronto, Canada and went to the University of Toronto, where she received her B.A. after majoring in English, and appearing in the well-received student movie, "Winter Kept Us Warm." Acting ambitions subsequently took her to Hollywood where she got a…

Carolyn Finch is a lover of literature and life! As a red seal, blue collar tradeswoman, she spent 28 years standing behind a hairstylists cutting chair. At forty years of age, it was time to set down her scissors for a few days a week and explore an old passion- writing!…

Claire Finlayson is a writer from Gibsons, BC. For ten years she served on the board of directors of the Sunshine Coast's Festival of the Written Arts, the last three years as vice president. Her first book, Dispatches from Ray's Planet: A Journey through Autism, published by…

Christine Fischer Guy is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has lived and worked in London, England. Her debut novel, The Umbrella Mender, appeared in 2014. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Five Dials, Descant, Prairie Fire, The Queen's Quarterly, The…

Born and raised in Florida, ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. She has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She performed her latest…