Billeh Nickerson, BFA (UVic), MFA (UBC), is a writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate. He is the author of five books; the co-editor of Seminal: the Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets; and a former editor of PRISM international and Event, two of Canada’s most…

Janet Nicol is a freelance writer with a special interest in art, history and social justice. She has written more than 360 articles for 48 magazines. She taught high school history for twenty-nine years in Vancouver and summer workshops to teachers in Mongolia, Peru and…

 Chad Norman, Truro, NS, Canada His poems have appeared for nearly 40 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, also translated into Albanian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, and…

Daniela I. Norris is a former diplomat and political writer, turned inspirational author and speaker. She lived on three continents and one Island Nation over the past thirty years - and now calls Montréal home. She is the author of three novels, three non-fiction titles and a…

Jacqueline Nugent was born in 1946 and spent her youth in Oakville, Ontario. She moved to Quebec in 1970 where she became enamoured with the French culture. In 1984, she published, Beyond the Door, a fantasy-adventure for 10-12 year olds. Her second novel, The Glass Treehouse,…

Ben Nuttall-Smith taught Music, Theatre, Art, and Language until he retired in 1991. He now lives in White Rock, near Vancouver B.C. Past President of the Federation of British Columbia Writers, Ben’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and online…

Gail Nyoka's written works and oral stories span the globe: Britain, Canada, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Egypt; and they encompass historical and the emerging present times. An award-winning playwright, she writes for theatre, radio and oral performance, as well as being a novelist for…

HEATHER M. O’CONNOR is an award-winning children's author and freelance journalist based in Peterborough, Ontario. Her debut picture book FAST FRIENDS (Scholastic Canada) won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award and was the 2022 TD Grade One Book Giveaway title. FRIENDS FIND A WAY…

Frank was born in Dublin, Ireland, and began his writing career there while in fourth grade. One day Frank’s regular teacher was ill, and his class was combined with another. In order to keep this large group of students quiet, the teacher offered a prize of sixpence for the…

Gillian O’Reilly has been interested in words ever since she ate the dust jacket off the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary when she was 11 months old.  She is the author of two non-fiction books for young readers and is currently working on fiction and picture book projects. …

I have a bachelor degree in history and English, a MA in history (both from York University, Toronto), a MFA in creative nonfiction (University of King’s College, Halifax), and MA in refugee protection and forced migration studies (University of London. I am currently a PhD…

Debbie Ridpath Ohi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Where Are My Books?, I Want To Read All The Books, and Sam & Eva (Simon & Schuster). She has helped create over 30 books, most of which are for young people. Her illustrations appear in books by Judy Blume…

Ruth Ohi is the illustrator of over 60 books, 23 of which she is also the author. Her latest are “Blanket” (Groundwood Books) and “Choose Kindness” (Scholastic Canada). Other author/illustrated books include “Scribble”, “No Help Wanted!” and the Fox and Squirrel Series (all…

Lara is a writer, researcher, and educator who grew up in a diverse, working-class neighbourhood in Toronto, close to her Japanese Canadian grandparents and often visiting her Anglo-Irish Canadian grandmother on her rural Ontario farm. Though she did not like reading as a kid,…