Ken is the author of a collection of short stories (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). The story collection won the Violet Quill Award for Best New Gay Fiction at the Lambda Literary Festival. The Italian translation of the…

Carol Harvey Steski (she/her) grew up in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg), Canada. Her debut poetry collection is rump + flank (NeWest Press, 2021, Crow Said Poetry series). Her poems have been published in the poetry anthology Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology and…

Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) is a proudly queer and trans space-case who has been writing since he can remember. Markus specializes in super sweet, super gay stories, ideal for readers young and old alike. He lives in downtown Toronto with his husband, their plantonic co-…

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She is also a fiction editor at House of Gamut, and a staff writer at psychopomp.com. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there. Currently, she’s located just outside…

Margaret Hastings-James is a writer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She began writing in a small Inuit community in Northern Quebec . She moved to Paris in 1994 and lived there for 12 years, studying under British author, Julian Gloag. She also did many work shops on script writing and…

Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and performer who lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, and teaches full time at Saint Mary’s University. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new musical and/or theatrical works by composers Colin Labadie, Benton Roark, Zachary…

Wendy Hawkin is an author/publisher with Blue Haven Press. As W. L. Hawkin, she publishes the Hollystone Mysteries, a mystery/thriller/urban fantasy series that features a coven of Vancouver witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. As a genre…

A life-long lover of horror, Vanessa wrote her first story when she was in grade five. It was titled Mutilated and warranted a trip to the school guidance counsellor. With over a dozen publications under her belt, Vanessa is not only a proud mom, but a bestselling author. She…

Barbara Haworth-Attard was born in Kitchener, Ontario and now lives in London, Ontario with her husband. Her fondest memories of childhood are of her weekly Saturday visits to the library, a tradition carried on to date. While always possessed with the writing bug, it was not…

Penelope Hawtrey grew up in southern Ontario and moved to eastern Ontario to attend University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She began writing shortly after graduation, then stopped, and started again a decade later. After she completed her first manuscript,…

  Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story collection Small Change was…

Diana Hayes was born in Toronto in 1955 and has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia and Victoria, receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She was Poetry Editor for Prism international while at U.B.C. from ’80…

Diane has been writing professionally for over 30 years. An award-winning freelance writer and the author of an award-winning novel series, she was the speechwriter for international human rights lawyer Stephen Toope during his tenure as president of the University of British…

Elizabeth’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Prism, Room and many anthologies, most recently This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press), Shy: an anthology, Waiting and You…

Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to entering medical school, he studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and…

Christine lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family. She is an avid reader, but her true love is writing. She enjoys literary, classics, horror, and contemporary fiction. Her retirement from the world of accounting and business management, turned into a full-time writing career…

Kate Heartfield writes novels, novellas, stories and games. Her works include the historical fantasy novel The Embroidered Book (2022), and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes…

Michelle Hébert has turned the most difficult times in her life into stories that challenge, inspire, and remind us of the shared humanity that makes life sparkle. She has an MFA in creative non-fiction from the University of King’s College, and degrees and experience in…

Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist with an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King's College. Her articles appear in publications such as CIM Magazine, Explore, & The Globe Mail.  She pubilished Ring of…

Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in Literature.…