Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 29 books including Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime) His national bestselling novel…

Karen has always been an avid reader and for many years reading satisfied her love of story. That changed when she was hired to manage the local library and the desire to write took root. Since then her stories and articles have been published in local newspapers, magazines and…

Arjun Basu has written two books. His first book, a collection of short stories, Squishy (DC Books, 2008) was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. His first novel, Waiting for the Man (2014, ECW) was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (and though an honour, being longlisted…

Judy Fong Bates is the author of China Dog and other Tales from a Chinese Laundry, a collection of short fiction, published by Sister Vision Press. Her short stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, This Magazine and the Canadian…

Sharon Batt is a writer and women's health activist currently living in Halifax. In the 1970s, she was one of the editors of the feminist magazine Branching Out and was a vice-president for three years of the Canadian Periodical Publishers' Association (now Magazines Canada).…

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. She is an alumna of Laurentian University (Sudbury, ON, Canada) and Nipissing University (North Bay, ON, Canada). During her teaching career in Sudbury, she…

Nancy Bauer holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and immigrated to Fredericton in 1965. She was married to Bill Bauer, writer and retired professor, who died in 2010. Nancy was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbooks, founded the Maritime Writers' Workshop and was a…

Joan Baxter is an award-winning author and journalist, international development researcher/writer, and anthropologist. Her 2017 book, "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest," that delves into the suffering caused by the Pictou pulp mill in Nova Scotia and the enormous power…

Jean Rae Baxter (née Fox) was born in Toronto but grew up in Hamilton. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and a B.Ed degree from Queen’s. She is an ex-copywriter and ex-teacher. Married to a Queen’s University English professor, she lived for…

Kimmy Beach's fifth book, The Last Temptation of Bond (The University of Alberta Press, 2013), was chosen as one of the best five poetry books of the year on Quill&Quire's 2013 Readers' Poll. The book was longlisted for the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice Award, and was…

Jeff Beamish is a fiction writer, former journalist and author of the new novel, No, You're Crazy. His previous novel, Sneaker Wave, was shortlisted in 2014 for a national fiction award in Canada. He has had short fiction published in four literary journals, The Nonconformist…

David Richard Beasley lives in Simcoe Ontario. Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. He has written…

Raymond Beauchemin is the author of two traditionally published works of fiction, the novel "Everything I Own" (Toronto: Guernica 2011) and the novella collection "The Emptiest Quarter" (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2023). He is a cookbook author ("Salut: The Quebec…

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published…

Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults. A Porcupine in a Pine Tree was the #1 Canadian National Bestseller and received the Libris Picture Book of the Year Award from the C.B.A; the sequel, Dashing through the Snow,  was also…

Lea Beddia is a writer for young adults, a high school English teacher, storyteller and mom of three. Her debut novel, Take Off! from Rebel Mountain Press combines action, drama and humor to tell a story of Marisa, an aviation cadet with a dream of becoming a pilot. Take Off!…

Dean Beeby is an investigative journalist and author of five non-fiction books, including the forthcoming (April 2, 2024) Murder in Renfrew County: The predator who left three women dead and the justice system that failed to stop him (Lorimer). Since 1983, he has worked for The…

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author based in Vancouver. His first book, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization was a finalist for a PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and a California Book Award. You can learn the basic ideas behind the…

Henry Beissel is a writer and editor who has published 16 volumes of poetry; 6 books of plays; translations of works by Bauer, Huchel, Ibsen, Mrozek, Neruda, and Dorst; a non-fiction book on Canada; 2 anthologies of plays for High Schools; as well as numerous essays and short…