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Pignat, Caroline
Caroline
Pignat
Caroline Pignat is the two-time Governor Generalʼs Award winning author of seven highly acclaimed novels. She writes contemporary YA, historical fiction, and free verse novels that dig into her characters through multiple forms and points of view. Back in high school, …
Pihac, Branko
Mississauga
Branko
Pihac
Mississauga
Canadian writer with Croatian heritage, Branko graduated radio-communications from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb with honors. His earliest stories appeared in the SF magazine SIRIUS when he was still a student. He was the owner of a small business, designing control…
Pike, Lisa
Lisa
Pike
*/ Lisa Pike was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied in France, worked in Italy, and completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New Quarterly, Exile, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations:…
Pinkney, Jeff
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff
Pinkney
Haliburton and Baden
Jeff
Jeff Pinkney is a settler who splits his time living in Baden, Ontario (the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenodaunee peoples) and in Haliburton, Ontario (the traditional territory collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations). Jeff is a…
Pirani, Ayaz
Ayaz
Pirani
Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here (The Word Works, 2016), Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets (Mawenzi House, 2019) and How Beautiful People Are (Gordon Hill Press, 2022). His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Guest 16. Ayaz’s…
Pirbhai, Mariam
Waterloo
Mariam
Pirbhai
Waterloo
Mariam
Mariam Pirbhai is a creative writer and academic. She is the author of a book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), Winner of the 2024 Sarton Women's Book Award for nonfiction,  Honourable…
Piredda, Francesca
Pirie, Pearl
Alcove
Pearl
Pirie
Alcove
Pearl Pirie is a poet living in rural Quebec just outside of Ottawa. She has 4 trade collections out and a couple dozen chapbooks. She is a haikuist and generalist poet. She has run a small press since 2011. Her poetry has been published since 1991. She has written full time…
Pitt, Steve
Rutherglen
Steve
Pitt
Rutherglen
Steve Pitt has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 1980 he won the top Periodical Distributors Author’s Award for humour with a groundhog recipe article that was published in…
Pittaway, Kim
Dartmouth
Kim
Pittaway
Dartmouth
Kim Pittaway is the co-author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement, which the New York Times called “riveting and propulsive,” and, with Dr. Samra Zafar, of Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future. She is a…
Piudik, Jaclyn
Toronto
Jaclyn
Piudik
Toronto
Jaclyn
Jaclyn Piudik is the author of The Dark Oar [English translations of Paul Celan's French self-translations] (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017), Seduction: Out of Eden, written collaboratively with Janet R. Kirchheimer (Kelsay Books, 2022),…
Pivato, Emma
Platana, Janette
Peterborough
Janette
Platana
Peterborough
Janette
Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Polak, Monique
Montreal
Monique
Polak
Montreal
Monique Polak combines a busy life as a children's book author, freelance journalist and CEGEP teacher. She is the author of 29 books for young adults. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, renamed the QWF's…
Pole, Graeme
Hazelton
Graeme
Pole
Hazelton
Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of thirteen books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada, and two novels. His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.…
Polk, C. L.
Calgary
C. L.
Polk
Calgary
C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the CBC Canada Reads finalist The Midnight Bargain and the Nebula-winning, USA Today bestseller Even Though I Knew The End.…
Pollock, Janet
Victoria
Janet
Pollock
Victoria
Janet S. Pollock is a multi-genre writer and educator living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes fiction, poetry, essays, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Exploring topics such as the natural world, grief and loss, relationships, and…
Pomade, Rita
Pomerleau-Cloutier, Noémie
Montréal
Noémie
Pomerleau-Cloutier
Montréal
Noémie
Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is from the North Shore region of Quebec, spent many years in Montreal, and now lives in Rimouski. She is a poet, a cultural mediator, and an emerging textile artist (embroidery, weaving loom). She published two adult poetry books, Brasser le varech (…
Pond, Judith
Pontsa, Peter Thomas
Loretto
Peter Thomas
Pontsa
Loretto
During his career in the dental industry, Peter Pontsa authored numerous techno-clinical articles published in various dental journals and served as an associate publisher for a denturist magazine.After retiring, Peter turned his focus to creative writing, completing an Advanced…
Portebois, Yannick
Porter, Michelle
Porter, Pamela
Sidney, BC
Pamela
Porter
Sidney, BC
Pamela Porter is the author of ten collections of poetry, two verse novels, and a novel and picture book for children. Her poetry collection, Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and her poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism…
Porter, Anna
Toronto
Anna
Porter
Toronto
Anna Porter is the award-winning author of ten books, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently, Deceptions and In Other Words, How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time and Buying a Better World, George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, and five mystery novels,…