Cathy Crowe is a longtime Canadian Street Nurse, educator, social justice activist, and filmmaker specializing in advocacy on homelessness in Canada. She is the author of Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out (Between the Lines) and A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of…

Kevin Crowley is an award-winning journalist and the author of the satirical novel, Sir Middling U. He spent nearly 20 years in journalism, writing for daily newspapers and magazines and contributing to CBC Radio. His work has won a number of awards, including a Michener Award…

Bruce grew up along the Corso Italia neighbourhood in Toronto, the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. An alumnus of North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where he found a piqued interest in Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and …

Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Lorna Crozier has published poems in numerous magazines and anthologies and seven books. She's taught at various summer schools, including the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and the Banff School of Fine Arts; and has also been writer-…

Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer from Moose Jaw who taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School of th Arts and at The Sage Hill Writing Experience.  The author of 13 books, he feels blessed to have served two terms as Saskatchewan Poet Laureate and to have delivered the…

Susan Currie is an elementary teacher in Brampton, Ontario (22 years and counting). Before she entered the public school system, she earned a living as an accompanist, music director, choir director, dinner musician, leader of various music programs for children, and piano…

Sheilah Currie has had a varied career—first as an actor, then a school teacher, and now a children’s book author and early literacy advocate. She figures it won’t matter whether books are digitized or pulp’n’paperized if people can’t read. With her friend and writing partner,…

Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023), The Inquisition Yours (…

Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people that have been published around the world. Her most recent works are the nonfiction picture books City of Neighbors, City Streets are for People, A Forest in the City and City of Water (the ThinkCities series from…

I am a writer, literary translator, and journalist. I am a co-founder and publisher of Accenti, an English-language cultural magazine, and of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works that celebrate cultural diversity. As a photojournalist for an international NGO…

Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,…

Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years…

Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the…

Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full length…

I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, April 2019), inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter. The story is an on-the-road adventure that covers the terrain of love, race and science …

Tasneem has a degree in Drawing and Painting and a minor in English from OCAD University, but she learned most of what she knows from reading children’s books with her daughter. Her books are Amazon bestsellers in categories such as Children’s Inspirational & Personal Growth…

The author of five books of non-fiction, Stephen Dale has also made documentaries for CBC Radio's "Ideas" and other programs; worked as Canadian correspondent for InterPress Service (a news agency based in Rome, Italy, with a focus on the developing world); written a column for…

Lisa Dalrymple won The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Writing for Children Competition (2011) for her picture book story "Skink on the Brink," which was later published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Skink on the Brink also won the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Canada, and was a…