Margaret Sweatman writes novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry and songs, and performs with jazz and new music ensembles. Her most recent novel is The Gunsmith's Daughter (2022).

George Swede received his B.A.(Hons. Psych.) from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and his M.A. (Expm. Psych.) from Dalhousie University in 1965. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, periodicals and miscellaneous…

Alice Switocz Goldbloom straddles two worlds – the Polish immigrant family she was raised in and the Jewish one she married into – which has shaped her writing and understanding of identity, memory, and belonging. She lives in Montreal with her husband, where they…

Shawn Syms has written for over 25 years for more than 50 publications. His work has been short-listed for the prestigious Journey Prize. Shawn wrote the short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar, a National Post pick for the Top Books of 2014, recently seized by the…

Jakub (Kuba) Szamalek is a Polish-Canadian author and video game writer. He was born in Poland, studied in the UK (at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar), and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote several best-selling and…

GILLIAN SZE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014), Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015), and Panicle (ECW Press, 2017), which were finalists for the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She…

Nancy Taber's debut novel, A SEA OF SPECTRES, published with Acorn Press in June 2024. Nancy is a university professor and fiction author who loves stories about strong complex women. She writes in the genres of non-fiction, historical fiction, mystery, and speculative fiction.…

Lynn Tait is an award-winning poet and photographer residing in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Her poems have appeared in FreeFall, Vallum, CV2, Literary Review of Canada, Trinity Review, High Shelf Press, The Quarantine Review, Verse/Virtual, Muleskinner, Last Leaves and in over 100…

Liam Taliesin is a Red River Metis and proud citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation. He grew up in Winnipeg's celebrated North End. He is a founder of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights and chaired the organization its first six years. Two of his plays, 'St. Peter's…

As the daughter of immigrant parents, Urve grew up in Toronto hearing stories about the history and culture of Estonia. Urve didn’t realize that she wanted to be a writer so she attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.Sc. (Physical Therapy).…

Eric Enno Tamm is an author, journalist and analyst with more than 15 years experience in the media and nonprofit sector. His first book, Beyond The Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, was a…

Candie Tanaka (they/them) is a multiracial trans writer, artist and librarian challenging the binaries continually reconstructed between self and other while exploring archive and memory in a socio-political context. They are a creative writing graduate of The Writer’s…

Shelley Tanaka was born in Toronto, Ontario. She has a B.A. (Hons) in English and German from Queen's University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. For the past thirty-five years she has been the fiction editor at Groundwood Books, Canada's…

Léa Taranto (she/her) is a disabled, Chinese Jewish Canadian writer who spent her childhood reading fantasy. Her adolescence was much the same, except certified in various inpatient facilities for life-threatening OCD and comorbid disorders. A University of British Columbia MFA…

Damian Tarnopolsky is a writer, editor and teacher.  His most recent work, The Defence, won the 2019 Voaden Prize, leading to a staged reading directed by Craig Walker at the Kingston WritersFest. His novel Goya’s Dog, the story of a dyspeptic British painter’s unhappy…

Rea lives and writes prose (short and long), and screenplays in Edmonton, Alberta. 

Originally from Thunder Bay, ON, Margie has lived and worked in Vancouver, BC, Calgary, AB, Guelph, ON, and London, England. As a CBC Radio host and producer, she worked on regional and national programs (“Morningside”, “Sunday Morning”, “Gabereau”), wrote a syndicated parenting…

Jason A. N. Taylor loves ideas and thinking but has struggled with being read because of dyslexia (don’t worry, Jason has spent lots of money on editing).  Taking inspiration from his parents, both of whom are dyslexic, and with the help of teachers, Jason has persevered…