Michael Aaron Mayes was born and raised in Calgary. After graduating from McGill University with a business degree and an inexplicable love of writing, he began his career as an advertising writer. Since then, Michael worked as a writer and creative director at various…

Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Raymond Souster Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She is a…

Rona Maynard's memoir, My Mother's Daughter, tells the universal story of how a woman becomes herself because of, and in spite of, the woman who formed her--her mother. Alice Munro has called the book "wonderfully honest and enthralling."In a previous life as Editor of…

Susan Mayse writes fiction and nonfiction.  

Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels celebrated by the critique, an essay and a collection of short stories. Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa…

Rhona McAdam grew up mainly on Vancouver Island, then spent 14 years in Edmonton, and 12 years in London, England before returning to live in Victoria in 2002. She has degrees in English, Library/ Information Science, and Communications Planning, and spent a year in Parma,…

Karen McBride is an Algonquin Anishnaabe writer from Timiskaming First Nation. She loves to write stories about truth, healing, and magic. Her debut novel, Crow Winter, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards, the PMC Indigenous Literature Award, and the Sunburst Award for…

I’ve spent most of my life fighting my brain by listening to writing advice (and advice in general) intended for those with neurotypical brains (a fancy way of describing the general public). Little did I know that my brain works a little differently. Despite having undiagnosed…

Susan McCaslin has published eighteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Field Play (Ekstasis Editions, 2024). Her handcrafted chapbook, Sentient Stones (Raven Press) came out in June 2023. In Dec. 2022 her poem, "Consider the Western Red Cedar" won first place in the…

In her final term at high-school Kathy Mac lived in a boarding house because her family had moved to the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan; upon graduating she joined them, for several months working as a teaching assistant in a school for expatriates’ children in Tarbella…

J.R. McConvey's stories have been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize, and the Matrix Lit Pop award. His work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Joyland, EVENT, the Puritan, the New Quarterly, carte blanche, filling Station, and the Feathertale…

Gael McCool lives, teaches and writes in Halfmoon Bay BC. She is in the process of publishing her second book. www.gaelmccool.com

Judith McCormack was born outside Chicago, and grew up in Toronto, with brief stops in Montreal and Vancouver. She has several law degrees, which have mostly served to convince her that law is a branch of fiction. Her first short story was nominated for the Journey Prize, and…

Rosemary McCracken is the author of the Pat Tierney mystery series: Safe Harbor, Black Water, Raven Lake and Uncharted Waters. A finalist for Crime Writers of Canada's Unhanged Arthur Award, the Debut Dagger and the Derringer Award, Rosemary's short stories have appeared in…

Marilyn McCrimmon was a secondary/post-secondary counsellor in Victoria, B.C. for more than 30 years, and has been a freelance writer for more than 40 years. She has published countless feature articles on a wide variety of topics (fitness, health, sport, profiles, travel, etc…

Kathleen McDonnell has had a decades-long career writing fiction, non-fiction and plays for both adult and young audiences.