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Smith, John
RR#1 Carrying Place
John
Smith
RR#1 Carrying Place
John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada.  He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines.  John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column…
Smith, Douglas
Markham
Douglas
Smith
Markham
Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.” His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…
Smith, Cameron
Smith, Paul
Mount Pearl
Smith, Jim
Toronto
Jim
Smith
Toronto
Jim
First published story September 1972 in West Coast Review, which enriched me by $ 5. Books since include: Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra. Mansfield Press, 2012 Back Off, Assassin: New and Selected Poems. Mansfield Press, 2009 Leonel/Roque. Coteau Books, 1998 Translating Sleep…
Smith, Ron
Nanoose Bay
Ron
Smith
Nanoose Bay
Ron Smith
Ron Smith is the author and editor of numerous books, including four books of poetry, the award-winning Elf the Eagle and The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke. An excerpt from the latter book was translated into eighteen languages by Reader’s Digest and published in over…
Smith, Kara Ghobhainn
Pain Court
Kara Ghobhainn
Smith
Pain Court
Kara Ghobhainn
Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text …
Smith, Nicole F.
Victoria
Nicole F.
Smith
Victoria
Nicole Smith is an archaeologist, educator, and author. Since 2000, archaeological research and fieldwork have taken her to Haida Gwaii, the Discovery Islands, western and southern Vancouver Island, Great Bear Rainforest, Northwest Territories, and Tierra del Fuego in…
Smith, Sadé
Mississauga
Sadé
Smith
Mississauga
Sadé Smith is a Canadian children’s book author of GRANNY'S KITCHEN (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2022) which was nominated for the Blue Spruce Award for the 2023 Forest of Reading and shortlisted for the 2023 Crystal Kite Award. She is of Jamaican descent and her books often…
Smith, Allan
Smith, Michael
Kelowna
Michael
Smith
Kelowna
Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown teaching creative writing in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC's Okanagan campus in BC's Interior. Smith’s memoir, My Body Is…
Smith, Nicole
Smith, Steven Ross
Victoria
Steven Ross
Smith
Victoria
Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking…
Smyth, Donna
Donna
Smyth
Donna E. Smyth was born and grew up in Kimberly, BC, but has lived and worked on the west coast, in Britain, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and for the past 15 years, in Nova Scotia. Her writing is always crossing genres, slipping and sliding around definitions of what is "supposed to…
Snell, Tricia
Lunenburg, NS
Tricia
Snell
Lunenburg, NS
Tricia Snell writes books, stories, poems, essays/articles, and book reviews, and is currently working on a novel.Tricia's story (fiction), “Out to the Horses,” was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize and published in Room Magazine (…
Sneyd, Lola
Toronto
Lola
Sneyd
Toronto
Lola Sneyd is a poet, short-story writer, and journalist who grew up in the west, but is now a Torontonian. A public-health nurse, she has written about and for all ages. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Canada, the U.S., England, and Australia. She has taught Creative…
Šobat, Gail Sidonie
Edmonton
Gail Sidonie
Šobat
Edmonton
Gail Sidonie
Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…
Sobati, Ali
Toronto
Ali
Sobati
Toronto
I have dedicated my life to what I describe as literary activism: organizing and sustaining the social force that literature can generate. For over two decades, both in Iran and now in Canada, I have directed and curated literary events that link artistic work with social care.…
Soderstrom, Mary
Montreal
Mary
Soderstrom
Montreal
Mary
A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2023. Her most recent book is Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future (University of…
Sohail, M.K.
M.K.
Sohail
K. Sohail was declared born in Pakistan in 1952. After graduating from medical school in Pakistan, he came to study psychiatry at Memorial University, Newfoundland in 1977. He has been working as a psychotherapist in Whitby, Ontario since 1984. His creative writings (poetry,…
Sokol, Su J
Montréal
Su J
Sokol
Montréal
Su J Sokol is a social rights advocate and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. Originally from Brooklyn, xe now makes Montréal xyr home. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum, which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian…
Sol, Adam
Toronto
Adam
Sol
Toronto
Adam
Adam Sol latest collection is Broken Dawn Blessings, published in 2021 by ECW Press. He has published four other books of poetry, and one collection of essays, How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry. He is the Coordinator of the Creative Expression…
Soltani, Niloufar-Lily
Vancouver
Niloufar-Lily
Soltani
Vancouver
Niloufar-Lily (Lily) Soltani is the author of Zulaikha (2023), a literary novel praised for its blend of psychological suspense and family mystery, exploring race, class, and gender. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Lily’s poetry and translations have appeared in…
Somerville, Janet
Toronto
Janet
Somerville
Toronto
Janet
Janet Somerville taught English literature & creative writing for 25 years in Toronto. She is privileged to have ongoing access to Martha Gellhorn's restricted papers in Boston. She is currently working on a book about Morley Callaghan, Canada's first writer to make his…
Sommers, Evelyn
Evelyn
Sommers
Evelyn Sommers is a psychologist in private practice in Toronto and formerly in Vancouver, whose first book is a study of incarcerated women's views of the causes of their lawbreaking. Her most recent book, The Tyranny of Niceness: Unmasking the Need for Approval is an analysis…