Born in Guelph, Ontario, John has lived in Egypt, Iraq and Japan and then settled in Toronto. He has a BA and MA in English from York U., and non-credit writing courses at the jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he worked closely with Allen GInsberg and Anne…

Jessica Outram is an author, poet, and educator whose writing explores family, identity, history, and our connections to place. She is the author of The Shining Waters series (Second Story Press), including Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold and Bernice and the Wild Waters, as…

Born in London, England, Kathy Page now lives in BC. She gained her BA at York (England) and her MA in writing from the University of East Anglia.   A versatile writer, Page has a long-standing interest in complex characters who struggle with their own natures and…

After graduating from Theatre Performance at Humber, Lucie received top honours in English and French Literature at UofT and somehow ended up working in I.T.  She subsequently attended Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre as a screenwriting resident. Since then,…

Rajinderpal S. Pal is a writer and performer based in Toronto. Pal's debut novel, However Far Away, was published by House of Anansi in August 2024 and was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads 2025. Pal’s first collection of poetry, pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot…

Born in Chennai, India, Uma Parameswaran (nee Ganesan) was educated at Jabalpur (B.A.), Nagpur (Dip journalism and M.A), Indiana University (M.A. creative writing), and Michigan State University (Ph.D). Married to a mathematician, she has lived in Winnipeg since 1966. She joined…

Cheryl Parisien is a Red River Métis writer who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Treaty 1 territory. Her ancestors lived on the river lots of St. Norbert and her roots stretch back to the beginning of the Métis homeland. Loosely based on her family’s history, The Unweaving is her…

Dominik Parisien is an editor, writer, and poet. In the Ordinary Instant: A Memoir of Walking With Chronic Pain is forthcoming from Penguin Canada and his debut poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in fall 2020.…

Natalia is a Polish-Canadian children's author whose love of storytelling began with her mother's dedication to the performing arts. After emigrating to Canada, Natalia was recognized by the Turzanski Foundation with a Young Talent Award for writing and reciting poetry. She is…

John Passfield was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and continues to reside in Southern Ontario, near Cayuga, with his family. He is interested in exploring the development of the novel as an art-form, and has written many novels, planning notebooks and journals in his…

Saakshi Patel is a Bombay-born, Vancouver-based poet and educator.She is currently making poems at The Writer's Studio by Simon Fraser University’s School of Continuing Studies. Most of her work centres around a longing for stillness and a sense of home, explored through her…

Nisha Patel is an award-winning queer poet & artist. She is the City of Edmonton’s Poet Laureate, and the 2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion, and the 2021 Regional Writer in Residence with the Strathcona County Library. She is a recipient of the Edmonton Artists’ Trust…

Pamela Paterson, MS, CBAP, PMP, (pamthewriter.com) is a writer based in Kingston, Ontario. Pamela is a best-selling author and senior IT consultant specializing in business analysis and project management. She has also been a published author since she was 10 years old, writing…

Karen Patkau was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her mother wrote a telling note on a photo of her at 10 months old, – “Here is Karen looking at a book. She enjoys books, especially those with animals in them.” Karen started drawing at the age of three. In public school she was…

Ellis Patterson is a Toronto writer who has spent time in Florida, North Carolina and California. Their work has appeared in publications such as YES Poetry, Minola Review, Plenitude Magazine, Sinking City Review, Humber Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Coffin…

Author of the internationally successful books, Film Production Management 101, (for film professionals), Write! Shoot! Edit! (for teens) and Surviving Production, Deborah (Deb) Patz has been a film and TV professional since the mid-80s and continues to conduct…

     Heather Paul is a writer, an artist, a teacher, a mother, a partner, a seeker, a pilgrim, a friend, an adventurer, and a whole bunch of other labels that really don't express her essence of self.   Bloom where you're planted is a mantra Heather has…