Member Directory
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Richmond
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Kingston
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1526 Pilger's Road, Nipissing ON , P0H1W0
1526 Pilger's Road, Nipissing ON , P0H1W0
Maggie was born in Stratford, Ontario . She has worked in mental health, health research and forensic investigations. She lived in Kitchener, Waterloo and Toronto, then spent twenty interesting years in Winnipeg, fifteen years on Vancouver Island and she now lives and writes…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Ruth DyckFehderau (pronounced Dyke-FAY-der-ow) spends most of her time writing literary fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Edmonton where she sometimes teaches Creative Writing and English Lit at the University of Alberta. She holds degrees from Universities of Alberta (’95…
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Toronto
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Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Bernadette Dyer was born in Kingston Jamaica, where she graduated from The Immaculate Conception High School, as well as The Jamaica School Of Art, having specialized in Painting and Design. She was trained as a teacher at Toronto’s Lakeshore Teacher’s College, before becoming a…
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Hamilton
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Gabriola Island
Gabriola Island
Claire Eamer is a professional writer and winner of numerous awards for science writing for young people. She is the author of trade nonfiction books, primarily on science and history, for middle grades, as well as a picture book for preschoolers and primary grades. She has…
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Ottawa
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Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Gabrielle Earnshaw is the official biographer for Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Catholic priest and spiritual teacher. Her forthcoming book Becoming Henri: The Authorized Biography of Henri Nouwen will be published by St. Martin's Essentials, MacMillan, New York (release date: Summer…
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Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Sharon Easton is among the first generation of Jews born after the Holocaust in Canada. Her birthplace was rural Nova Scotia, where her grandparents and mother immigrated after they fled their home in Lithuania; arriving in Canada six weeks before World War II officially began.…
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southern ontario
southern ontario
Kim Echlin is a writer, teacher and documentary writer. She has produced television for the CBC and written for independent producers. She currently teaches at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. She has travelled, worked and lived in Pakistan, Honduras,…
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Toronto
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Calgary
Calgary
Patti Edgar is a writer and educator driven by curiosity and a desire to make the difficult easier to understand. Her first middle grade novel, Anna Analyst, came out in the spring of 2021 (Yellow Dog/Great Plains). Kirkus Reviews called the novel "a droll, deftly executed debut…
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Kagawong
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Toronto
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Westport
Westport
(Author, editor, publisher) Frank B. Edwards switched from magazine publishing to books early in his career — and then launched his own kids book company with illustrator/author John Bianchi. Bungalo Books and Pokeweed Press. Together they created 40 children's titles that sold…
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Edmonton
Edmonton
My last novel, The Sicilian Wife was named a Best Book of 2015 by The National Post, who described it as “a masterful tale of family, murder, and the inescapable pull of the past.” The literary noir received rave reviews in Canada, the U.S. and Sicily; a French edition, L’Epouse…
Victoria
Victoria
Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, in the woods as a faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor. Along the way he earned a B.A. and M.Ed.…
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Toronto