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Cooper, Jane
Metcalfe
Jane
Cooper
Metcalfe
Jane Cooper is a professional researcher and writer whose interests span from local history to international politics. For more than twenty-five years, she has been bringing to life stories from the past and present, drawing on extensive research and hands-on experience in…
Cooper, Douglas Anthony
Montreal
Douglas Anthony
Cooper
Montreal
Douglas Anthony Cooper has published three novels with Penguin Random House. His most recent novel, The Strangler Fig, was released this year in Italian translation (as Afasia); and a Young Adult novel, Ghost Chemistry, was published in Turkish in 2021. For five years…
Cooper, Cheryl
Cheryl
Cooper
Cheryl was born in Toronto and now lives in Muskoka with her husband, Randy, and her two sons, Evan and Brodie. She hold degrees in English and education from Queen's University, and her articles and stories have appeared in numerous Canadian periodicals. Cheryl makes her book…
Cope, Karin
Port Dufferin
Karin
Cope
Port Dufferin
Karin Cope is a Nova Scotia-based writer, activist, artist and professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design who spends part of each year at sea in British Columbia and elsewhere developing collaborative poetic, cultural and environmental projects. 
Corcelli, John
Toronto
John
Corcelli
Toronto
John
John Corcelli was born and raised in Toronto. He’s a writer, broadcaster, musician and golfer. He considers music his “religion”, with a love for all its forms especially Jazz. He plays clarinet and soprano sax (but not at the same time.) He graduated from Ryerson University in…
Cordileone, Elvira
Toronto
Elvira
Cordileone
Toronto
Arrived from Italy as a child in the middle of the twentieth century and raised in Montreal. Fled Quebec for Toronto in the early 1980s after the turmoil of the province's cultural revolution and language restrictions. Among many other jobs, finally settled down to work as a…
Corkery, Mary
Toronto
Mary
Corkery
Toronto
Mary Corkery's first poetry collection, Simultaneous Windows, was published by Inanna in 2017. Her career has included various roles in social justice and international development organizations, most recently KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives where she was…
Cornwall, Claudia
Claudia
Cornwall
Claudia Cornwall is a freelance writer, the author of six books.  She has also been published in many Canadian magazines and newspapers including The Globe & Mail, Reader's Digest, (the Canadian, the international and the Mainland China editions), BC Business, as well…
Corr, John
Hamilton
John
Corr
Hamilton
John
John Corr (PhD) writes Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction. He is a professor in the Dept. of Communication and Global Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. John has conducted writing workshops in elementary schools, high schools, undergraduate courses, and graduate…
Corry, J.C.
Vancouver
J.C.
Corry
Vancouver
J.C. Corry’s first childhood memory was peering through rose-tinted stained glass in a Battersea church in London, England, colouring a passion for historical fiction emboldened by his father’s hole-ridden Normandy helmet that sits above his writing desk. An army brat, he lived…
Costa, Donna
London
Donna
Costa
London
Donna
Donna Costa writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, YA fiction, Breathing With Trees, was released in 2020. Her CNF, which appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Nurture Literary, and Prairie Fire, is now part of her memoir, If I Could Remember: Bears & Brains…
Cotrupi, Nella (Caterina)
Richmond Hill
Nella (Caterina)
Cotrupi
Richmond Hill
Nella Cotrupi is an Italian-born Canadian writer, literary critic, scholar, and translator with a life-long interest in the literary and visual arts. Her work includes fiction, poetry, literary translation and non-fiction ( criticism, reviews, essays, translations). 
Cotter, Arlene
Vancouver
Arlene
Cotter
Vancouver
Arlene Cotter is an award-winning designer and strategist whose writing furthers a conversation about life initiated with From This Moment On: A Guide for Those Recently Diagnosed With Cancer (Penguin Random House, 1999) which she wrote after surviving her own terminal…
Cotter, Charis
St. John's
Charis
Cotter
St. John's
Charis
Charis Cotter is an award-winning children’s author who grew up beside a cemetery and has been living with ghosts ever since. She studied English in university and went to drama school in London, England. Now she lives at the end of a road by the ocean in Newfoundland, where the…
Cottrill, Jeff
Toronto
Jeff
Cottrill
Toronto
Jeff
Jeff Cottrill is a fiction writer, poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has headlined in countless literary series throughout Canada, the U.K., the U.S., France, Ireland and Australia over the last twenty-plus years. His performance style is…
Coutu Radmore, Claudia
Carleton Place
Claudia
Coutu Radmore
Carleton Place
Claudia
Claudia’s poems won the 2009 National Capital Region Canadian Author's Award for Poetry Accidentals (2011, Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa) won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Claudia Coutu Radmore's lyric poetry has been published in Psychopoetica, paperplates.ca and Acta Victoriana. Her…
Couture, Pauline
Toronto
Pauline
Couture
Toronto
Pauline Couture worked in daily journalism for many years in print, radio and television, in French and in English. Much of her writing life has been devoted to behind the scenes work such as research reports and regulatory submissions on large and complex issues in fields such…
Covell, Tim
Halifax
Tim
Covell
Halifax
Tim Covell was born on Canada’s west coast, lived in central Canada, and now lives on the east coast. He writes fiction and non-fiction, including romance, short humour, poetry, biography, software instructions, and journal articles. He holds degrees in…
Cowan, Janice
Burlington
Janice
Cowan
Burlington
Janice Cowan moved from Victoria in 2019 and now lives in Burlington, Ontario. She is the author of five children's mystery books and a non-fiction memoir called A Spy's Wife, which was published by James Lorimer and Company Ltd in October 2006. Between 1991 and 2002,…
Cowley, Christine
Southern Ontario
Christine
Cowley
Southern Ontario
Christine Cowley is an author, collaborator, editor and/or micro-publisher of over 40 books. Her publishing imprint, Moss Pillow Publishing, provides complete writing and publishing services for corporate histories.  Butchers, Bakers and Building the Lakers:…
Cowper, Daniel
Bowen Island, BC
Daniel
Cowper
Bowen Island, BC
Daniel Cowper is a poet and writer from Bowen Island, BC. His poetry has appeared in publications in Canada, the USA, and Ireland, including Arc Poetry, Vallum, Southword, and Barren, and has been long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. A chapbook of his poetry, The God of Doors,…
Cox , Sarah
Victoria
Sarah
Cox
Victoria
Sarah Cox is the author of two non-fiction books — Signs of Life: Fieldnotes from the Frontlines of Extinction and Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley's Stand Against Big Hydro. Sarah is an environmental journalist who works for The Narwhal as an investigative…
Craig-Whytock, Suzanne
Drumbo
Suzanne
Craig-Whytock
Drumbo
Suzanne
Suzanne Craig-Whytock is the author of five novels: Smile, The Dome (English version, 2019; international Arabic translation, 2022), The Seventh Devil, and The Devil You Know (Bookland Press), Charybdis (JC Studio Press), two short story collections: Feasting Upon The Bones and…
Crail, Archibald
Archibald
Crail
Born in Paarl, South Africa, Archie Crail studied for Anglican priesthood and came to Canada in 1980. He studied journalism and creative writing at the University of Regina. He wrote journalistic pieces, short fiction and drama for CBC and has taught creative writing. He also…
Craven, Joan
Calgary, Alberta
Joan
Craven
Calgary, Alberta
Joan Craven is a professional speaker, communications coach and author. Her latest book is titled Got It! 21 Communication Tips for Busy, Impatient People. She brings over 30 years in teaching and communications experience to her presentations. Past…