I am a first-generation Canadian living in Tkaronto. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an HBA from York University in Creative Writing and English. My writing has appeared in various literary magazines, including The Temz Review, The…

BA- McGill University, 1967 (editor-in-chief, McGill Daily '66-'67) M.Phil- Glasgow University, 1969

Peter Gajdics (pronounced “Guy-ditch”) is an award-winning writer whose essays, short memoir and poetry have appeared in Quillette, Huffington Post, X-tra, Maclean's, Advocate, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review / Worldwide, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Opium, among others.…

Norma Galambos is a freelance writer, blogger, chidren’s book author, podcast host and business owner from Leask, Saskatchewan.   Ahelia Publishing, LLC and Lilac Arch Press are publishing her first three children’s picture books in 2024.   Thirteen of Norma’s Saskatchewan…

Although she started making books at the age of nine, Joan Marie Galat wasn’t published until 12 years old, when she became a paid weekly newspaper columnist. Today she is the international award-winning author of more than 30 books with titles in seven languages. Make Your Mark…

Winner of the 2006 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, Peggy Gale is an independent curator and writer whose texts on contemporary art, especially video and time-based contemporary works, have become artistic benchmarks. Born in Guyana in 1944, Gale studied at…

Shawn Douglas Gale (born August 12, 1979) is a Canadian screenwriter, an academic, and a critically-acclaimed author. Gale graduated from Fraser Valley Writers' School with a Master's diploma. He graduated from Humber College's prestigious School for Writers, where he earned a…

Benj Gallander ran away to work in the Middle East, France and Czechoslovakia, but amidst betwixt and between, wrote a best-seller and six plays and a poetry book which is a left-right hemisphere link-up and started the SummerWorks Theatre Festival and his works sold in Austria…

David Gane is one half of the internationally award-winning writing team of Counios & Gane. Besides being a writer, David is an occasional scriptwriting teacher and stay-at-home dad.   Counios & Gane are the proud recipients of the 2017 First Book Award with the…

Lorraine Gane was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. In the mid-seventies she graduated from Carleton University’s Honours Journalism Program, then worked as a full-time writer and editor for major Canadian newspapers and magazines until 1989, when she began…

Loretta developed a real love for picture books while working as a storyteller, bookseller and reviewer at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore in Toronto. Very thrilled to be putting books into the hands of tomorrow’s big readers, she felt it was time to write a few stories of her own.…

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, a finalist for the Montaigne…

Maureen Garvie grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to New Zealand in 1971. Returning to Canada in 1983, she worked as a writer and editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She has taught writing and editing at Queen's University and is an editor for the Journal of British…

Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (colonially known as “Vancouver”), now based in Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian (he/him/his) is a Filipino diasporic queer author, editor, playwright, dramaturge, teacher and…

Kate currently lives, and writes, on a small farm in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, with her amazing husband, two incredible sons, an adorable dog, several barn cats who don’t earn their keep, a gaggle of geese, and some decidedly ungrateful chickens … all of…

Greg Gatenby was born in Toronto in 1950. He received a B.A. in English from York University in 1972. From 1973-1975, he was an editor at McClelland & Stewart. Since then, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the International…

Michael was born and raised in Alberta, where he  received a B.A. in Archaeology in 1970. He later earned an M.A. in History Museum Studies from  the State University of New York in 1988. He was curator of collections for Klondike National Historic Sites in Dawson City, Yukon,…

Toronto children's author, Kathleen Gauer, has published HIGH IN THE SKY (2015), FOR NO REASON (2017), THE WISH CARVERS (2019), BATHTIME FUN! (2021), as well as poetry and magazine and newspaper articles.  Kathleen worked as a contributing associate editor for a Toronto…

Daniel Gawthrop was born in Nanaimo in 1963 and grew up there. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Victoria and a Journalism diploma at the University of King’s College, Halifax, he began his career as a newspaper reporter for the Hope Standard and Vancouver…

Veronica Gaylie is a writer and teacher from Vancouver.  Her literary memoir Sword Dance: A Celtic Poem was published by Exile in 2015.  Veronica's creative non-fiction essays and poems have appeared in many journals, including Geist, Grain, Room and The Poetry Review, and she’s…

Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940. He completed a doctorate at University of Toronto and has taught at various institutions in Canada and abroad, including Western Washington University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture. Geddes has written…