Liz began riding a motorcycle on her family farm when she was sixteen. She could not have imagined how transformative her two-wheeled experiences would be, or how powerful a teacher motorcycling was. In 2003, she left a career in Corporate Human Resources and Training and…

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye.  His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list…

Aldona Jaworska was born and raised in Poland and came to Canada as a refugee in 1990. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Canadian Studies and Communication and Culture (2012, University of Calgary) and a Master’s of Arts degree in Communication and Culture (2014, U of C).…

  Certified book ghostwriter, book editor working with aspiring nonfiction authors to develop their ideas into viable manuscripts.    • Manuscript assessment and recommendations • Ghostwriting, line editing • Author coaching • Book proposals • Book Selling Plans   Specialties:…

Prior to turning to writing full time in 2009, Peter spent his career in corporate communications in Toronto running agencies handling marketing, advertising, branding, public relations and production of multimedia content, including websites and social media elements. Clients…

Marvyne Jenoff’s fifth book, a poetry collection, came out in March, 2022 with Silver Bow Publishing. Called Climbing the Rain, it includes poems that span her 60-year literary career as well as her recent poems of love and age. Marvyne Jenoff was born in Winnipeg and began…

Cathy Jewison is a short story writer living in Yellowknife, NWT. A  collection of her Yellowknife stories, The Ugly Truck and Dog Contest and Other Tales of Northern Life, was published by Borealis Press of Ottawa in 2009. Cathy has worked as a newspaper reporter, copy editor,…

Karl Jirgens was born in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus (U. Windsor). He served as editor/publisher of Rampike magazine (1979-2016). The Rampike digital archive is free to the public c/o U Windsor's Leddy Library (all copyrights remain with contributors); https://scholar.…

K.V. Johansen has Master's Degrees in Medieval Studies (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) and in English (McMaster). Her main scholarly interests are ancient and medieval history and languages, and the history of children's fantasy literature. Her non-fiction…

JEREMY JOHN is currently ranked as the sixty-second most famous person from Brantford, Ontario. (Look it up. There are a lot.) His career in broadcasting has included co-hosting shows on 680 NEWS, KiSS FM, and Breakfast Television. He is the author of two collections of short…

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.

 Sandi Johnson is interested in imaginative work that is socially relevant. "The Comfort of Angels," a fictional work, is based on her experience of working with Ojibwa Indians in northwestern Ontario. It portrays dignified characters who desire freedom and a better life. "The…

Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been…

     J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for an author/playwright/composer living with (dis)Ability who now lives in the Appalachians of New Brunswick, where she and her husband and mother live on their small farm overlooking inspirational views of nature.  Like her grandmother…

Hello everybody—late bloomer here! To contact me or to hear me read a chapter from my memoir They Left Us Everything, or to see behind-the-scenes videos, please visit my website at: https://plumjohnson.com  

George M. Johnson was born in 1961 in Waterdown, Ontario. In 1984 he received an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he held a S.S.H.R.C. doctoral fellowship. Since 1991 he…

Terry Lynn Johnson has been a dog musher with eighteen sled dogs, a wilderness park ranger, and currently works as a conservation officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources in northern Ontario. Terry's novels have been recognized by Bank Street College Best Books, ABA Best…

Natalee A. Johnson (Naj) is a graduate of Niagara University with a B.A in Professional Studies in Education, graduate of the University of Victoria with a B.A in Child and Youth Work, Diploma in Court and Tribunal Administration and Early Childhood Educator from Seneca College…

Gordon Johnston was born in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, in 1947. He studied at Trinity College in Toronto and then at Harvard before starting a teaching career at Trent University in Peterborough that lasted forty years until he retired in 2011. He organized the university's…