Born in Ontario, educated in Montréal, Stephens Gerard Malone currently lives and writes on Canada’s east coast. In 1994, he published his first novel, Endless Bay (Mercury Press) under the pseudonym, Laura Fairburn. His second novel, Miss Elva (Random House Canada) followed in…

Daniel Maluka is a self-taught, Toronto-based artist and writer originally from South Africa. He merges Afrocentric influences with surrealist elements to explore the depths of the subconscious in his art. Daniel's visually captivating pieces have gained international…

Bianca Marais is the author of the bestselling The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, as well as the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh, and the Audible Original, The Prynne Viper. She taught at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing…

Adam Mardero founded the blog Differently Wired in 2011 to educate and advocate for neurodiversity. He holds a Master’s Degree in History and a Bachelor of Education. Since coming to terms with being neurodivergent, he’s dedicated his life to helping further the causes of Autism…

Amela Marin moved to Canada from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Her writing appeared in magazines in former Yugoslavia, as well as Poetry Today, Meta, Gastronomica, Descant, PRISM International, BBC Radio and Radio Netherlands. "The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine", a memoir about…

LARA MARGARET MARJERRISON is a queer, multidisciplinary artist with a vision of impacting the world around her through the transformative power of visual art and storytelling. She spends her days writing poetry and prose, dabbling in photography, and playing with paint, bringing…

Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia. She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University…

Irene Marques is a bilingual writer (writing in English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University in the English Department where she teaches literature, literary theory, and creative writing. She has also taught at the University of Toronto, York…

Bicky A. Marquez is a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (optics/photonics) from the Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, France (2018), where she worked at the FEMTO-ST Institute on artificial intelligence photonic hardware. She is a research scientist at the Physics Department of Queen's…

Kate offers spontaneous occasional p.o.e.m.s "Poems of the Extraordinary Moment" live and on zoom. She also guides poetry workshops for all ages live and on zoom. See Kate's books, award-winning performance poetry videos, sample poems, and StillPoint Writing and Poetry Editing…

Montrealer Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland heritage—she can tell a good joke, but it bombs. She has been a filmmaker, a baker, an app designer, a marketer, a farmer, and editor of online culture journal Rover Arts. In 2011, she founded the Friends of Hutchison Street…

Yann Martel is the author of a collection of short stories, four novels, and a collection of letters to former Prime Minister Harper. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Debra Martens has published short stories in print journals such as The New Quarterly and Room, and online with Agnes and True and The Quarantine Review, among others. With years of experience as a book reviewer, and having lived in five countries abroad, she launched and…

Carolyn Martin is the author of several acclaimed novels for young people published under the names C. K. Kelly Martin and Cara Martin. Carolyn was born in Mississauga, Ontario and spent her early years devouring books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and…

Dan Martin is a psychotherapist living in Edmonton, Canada. Dan grew up in a family of game guides and outfitters in Northern Alberta. He worked for several years as a field officer for Alberta Forestry, Lands, and Wildlife. When Dan's writings describe wilderness areas and wild…

In her formative years, Gwen jumped freight trains, played lounge piano, and prospected for gold. She later became a freelance writer/editor, producing political speeches, grant proposals, and geoscience reports for clients across Canada. She also taught writing/editing…

GEOFF MARTIN’s essay "The Isabel Letters" won the 2024 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest from The New Quarterly. His place-based and environmental essays have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Literary Review of Canada,  …

After years of writing for other people, professionally and academically, I am mining my somewhat eccentric life for material that I think the world might want -- maybe even need -- to know. That includes growing up a long time ago in rural Alberta, doing community development…

JJ Martin was born in Manitoba and grew up Catholic in Ontario. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Ottawa in Anthropology of Religion. His business writing has appeared in a variety of online and print publications. His debut novel, 'Father Sweet,' was published in…

Jill Martin is the author of Return to Sable (2015), the story of her ancestors' life on Sable Island. Part love story and history of the island, readers are transported to the sand crescent in the North Atlantic. Her second work, Sable Island in Black and White, a pictorial…

Melanie Marttila (she/her) is an #ActuallyAutistic author of poetry and speculative tales of hope in the face of adversity, who is a settler in Sudbury ('N'Swakamok), Ontario, living and writing in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that…