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Montréal
Montréal
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. She has been a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her translations into English include works by Marie-Claire Blais,…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer and blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and broadcast journalist and as a radio host for the CBC. He has written or edited eight books. His ninth, A Communist for the RCMP,  will be published in June 2024…
Montreal and Bolton-ouest
Montreal and Bolton-ouest
During an extended stay next to a jungle in Central America, Susan Grundy veered from drafting marketing reports to writing fiction. Her debut novel, Black Creek (forthcoming from Inanna Publications), was inspired by Huguenot ancestors who fled persecution in Europe to farm the…
Toronto
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach
Jacqueline Guest (CAN) is a Métis writer who lives on Vancouver Island. An award-winning author of 30 novels and short stories, her fast-paced novels cover topics from deadly video games to helpful ghosts. She has worked in Canada, United States, Tanzania and Ghana teaching…
Squamish
Squamish
Author Bio: Born and educated in Ireland, Nora Ryan immigrated to Canada with her husband and two small children in 1981. She spent sixteen years in rural Manitoba working as an educator and health promotion specialist. In1997 she moved to the Caribbean where her husband had a…
Killaloe
Killaloe
Born in Miami, Florida in 1944, Sandra Gulland lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador for one year. Settling in Toronto, she worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with her…
Vancouver
Vancouver
  Genni Gunn is an author, musician and translator. Born in Trieste, she came to Canada as a child. Her thirteen published books include three novels, three short story collections, three poetry collections, and a collection of personal essays. As well, she has translated from…
Crescent Beach, NS
Crescent Beach, NS
Sylvia Gunnery is the author of many books for young adults and children, as well as professional books on writing curriculum.   She has presented at schools, libraries, and conferences across Canada.  In 2022, the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia awarded her a Queen Elizabeth…
Toronto
Toronto
Andrea Gunraj is author of The Lost Sister (Vagrant Press) and The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha (Knopf Canada). She is also a contributing essayist to a new collection entitled Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity (Coach House Books). Andrea loves stories…
Guy
This Book was written as a tribute to my brothers, who died in a boating accident that was waiting to happen, but shouldn't have happened, and how it happened.
Kelowna
Kelowna
Meaghan Hackinen is a writer and cyclist whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and, most recently, from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Her writing explores…
whitehorse
whitehorse
Jamella Hagen’s first collection of poetry, Kerosene, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2011. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UBC, has worked as an executive editor of PRISM international, has been a guest editor for the Northern Review, and has…
Calgary
Calgary
Lori Hahnel is the award-winning author of five books of fiction. Her latest novel, Flicker, was published in the University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series in 2023 and is currently a finalist for the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction in the 2024…
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
I am a wildlife veterinarian, author and storyteller. I have published 6 non-fiction books about my career and the animals I have worked with in Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Mongolia. They species include giraffe (my first case), rhinos, elephants, lions, hippo, a…
Clarksburg
Ken
Clarksburg
Ken Haigh has lived in China, Bhutan, and on Baffin Island. He has written two books, a memoir of life as a teacher in eastern Bhutan, Under the Holy Lake, and an account of walking the Pilgrims' Way in England, On Foot to Canterbury, which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston…
Toronto
Toronto
Solomon Hailemariam is a writer, translator, journalist, academic and was the founder and president of PEN Ethiopia. Solomon has attended his higher education in Addis Ababa University, University of South Africa, The Venice Academy of Human Rights in Venice, Italy, and Åbo…
Elora
Elora
Michael Hale lives in Elora, Ontario. He was born in Liverpool, England, and at the age of seven emigrated with his family to Canada. He grew up in Aurora, Ontario before moving to Toronto to attend The University of Toronto and the New School of Art. In the early eighties,…
Hornby Island, BC
Hornby Island, BC
Amanda Hale began her writing career as an immigrant in 1970s Montréal. She has published four novels, two poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories set in the village of Baracoa, Cuba. Her work has appeared in many Canadian & US literary magazines. She won the…
PERTH
PERTH
Phil Hall was raised in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. He attended the University of Windsor. He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Toronto New School, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been…
Saint John
Saint John
Phil Halton is a veteran and author of "Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred-Year War" and two novels, "Every Arm Outstretched" and "This Shall Be a House of Peace." His latest work is the satirical graphic novel, "The Sandbox." His writing has appeared in the Globe and…
Edmonton
Edmonton
While I'm currently focusing my writing energies on a historical novel, for the past decade my publishing credits have been in non-fiction. I have a particular interest in profiles and creative non-fiction, and my writing about urban culture, politics and design has appeared in…