Newbie author, wife, mother of 3, New Yorker, not-so-new Canadian, ballet lover, Daily Bread order-picker, traveler, paddler, gardener, cannoli connoisseur, cat and dog friend, funk and disco fan. Decades long volunteering for xcountry/track, TDSB Eco-schools program, and reader…

Richard Scarsbrook is the author of ten books, including the 2022 ReLit Award finalist The Troupers, The Indifference League, the National Post Bestseller Rockets Versus Gravity, and the OLA White Pine Award winner The Monkeyface Chronicles. His short stories and poems have…

Ron Schafrick's stories have appeared in a number of journals, including The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Best Gay Stories 2015 and The Journey Prize Stories 27. His collection of stories, Interpreters, was published by Oberon Press in 2013. For…

Hilary Scharper is a Canadian novelist. Her current project is set of five (mysteriously) water-ly novels unfolding along the shores of the Great Lakes. "Perdita" (Simon& Schuster) is the first in the series. Hilary's writing-with the Great Lakes embraces ecogothic…

René Schmidt was born in Holland and immigrated to Canada when he was three. His parents came too. In his teens and twenties he worked as an underground mine worker, truck driver, construction worker, taxi driver, ship officer trainee and upholsterer. René studied theatre…

National award-winning broadcaster. Hosted three hour daily radio talkshow for more than 20 years on CJAD Radio in Montreal. Author of Canada is not a Real Country. Currently working on a memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother's Life.  

Eleonore Schönmaier's most recent collection is Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (2021, McGill-Queen's University Press). Wavelengths of Your Song (2013, MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne). …

Philipp Schott was born in Germany and grew up in Saskatoon. He now lives in Winnipeg where he practises veterinary medicine, writes, and shares a creaky old house on the river with his wife, two teenagers, three cats, and a dog. His first book, a collection of essays titled The…

Ellen Schwartz has taught special education, elementary classes, and creative-writing courses for adults. She holds a BSc. in special education from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She works as a corporate and…

Barbara Joan Scott is a Calgary fiction writer. Her first collection of short stories, The Quick, was selected for the Toronto Star's list of must read books of 1999. Her work has been published in such literary magazines as Grain and Prairie Fire, and has been anthologized in…

Andrea Scott is a professional actor, playwright & producer who, after completing a year in the Obsidian Theatre Playwright Unit, saw her play Eating Pomegranates Naked accepted into the SummerWorks Performance Festival where it won the RBC Arts Professional award, named…

Susan Scott is a Great Lakes writer and editor working at the crossroads of story, spirit, self, and culture. She has midwifed dozens of books and essays and has been editing with The New Quarterly (tnq.ca) since 2009. Collaborations with artists, activists, and scholars…

Richard Scrimger has written for print media and television, but is best known for his 20+ books for adults and children. He’s won a few awards, been translated into a few more languages, and led workshops on several continents. Recent novels feature a hero who is obnoxious but…

My publications to date have been mainly academic, but I am branching out to creative non-fiction. At work on a memoir. 

Coltrane Seesequasis is a young fantasy writer of Indigenous heritage who grew up in Gatineau, Quebec. He first began his writing journey on long bus rides to school where he would alleviate the boredom by daydreaming of fantastical worlds, noble heroes, and unwavering villains…