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Narine, Shari
Narsimhan, Mahtab
Vancouver
Mahtab
Narsimhan
Vancouver
MAHTAB NARSIMHAN is an award-winning author with numerous critically acclaimed books, nominated for several awards, including The Third Eye which won the Silver Birch Fiction Award. She is inspired by the desire to make sense of the world through stories and is deeply…
Nash, Peta-Gaye
Mississauga
Peta-Gaye
Nash
Mississauga
Peta-Gaye Nash is a Jamaican-Canadian writer of short fiction, children's books and poetry. She has two collections of short fiction, I Too Hear the Drums (2014) and Told Ya! (2024), as well as seven children's books, including the award winning Bushyhead. Her…
Nattel, Lilian
Lilian
Nattel
Lilian Nattel lives in Toronto with her husband and two children who have compelled her to learn to skate, swim and knit, and have taught her what really matters in the universe. 
Nawrocki, Monica
Mansons Landing
Monica
Nawrocki
Mansons Landing
Monica
Monica Nawrocki lives with her partner on a remote island off the west coast of Canada where Art is embraced as an essential and joyful part of daily life. She earns her living as a substitute teacher—often reading under-construction manuscripts to captive classroom audiences…
Nazzaro, Alexa
Alexa
Nazzaro
Alexa Nazzaro holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University, where she studied under the likes of Trevor Ferguson, Connie Barnes Rose, and Sara O'Leary.  Her work has been featured in Soliloquies, Carte Blanche and Cell Stories, as well as in an anthology…
Nećakov, Lillian
Toronto
Lillian
Nećakov
Toronto
Lillian Nećakov is the author many chapbooks, including, The Lake Contains and Emergency Room (Apt. 9 Press; shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award), as well as the full-length collections il virus (Anvil Press; shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Hooligans (…
Neil, Garry
Neilsen Glenn, Lorri
Lorri
Neilsen Glenn
Lorri Neilsen Glenn was born in Winnipeg and lived in railway towns in Manitoba, Alberta,and Saskatchewan. An ethnographer, essayist, and poet, she studied at the Universities of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Harvard. Neilsen Glenn now lives and works in…
Nelson, Colleen
Winnipeg
Colleen
Nelson
Winnipeg
Colleen is a teacher and author from Winnipeg, Canada. Her books have been nominated for student-choice awards across the country and in the US. Harvey Comes Home won the SYRCA Willow (Saskatchewan) and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People. It was…
nelson, jane
Masset
Nesbitt, Karen
Montreal
Karen
Nesbitt
Montreal
Karen
Karen is a YA author who also works as a guidance counsellor in Montreal, QC. She teaches creative writing to 'kids' of all ages, and is available for virtual author visits, as well as live visits and creative writing workshops.
Ness Gordon, Laurie
South Frontenac
Laurie
Ness Gordon
South Frontenac
Laurie
Laurie Ness Gordon lives on a waterfront property north of Kingston, Ontario. She has worked as an educator, consultant, workshop presenter and writer. Her articles and short stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Canada and England. In 2014, Borealis Press…
Neville, Danny
Ottawa
Danny
Neville
Ottawa
Danny Neville was born and raised in rural Ontario. He is an elementary school educator and teacher librarian with many years of experience in public and private education, both in Canada and abroad. He is also an active volunteer with the Ontario Library Association as the…
Neville, Kim
Vancouver
Kim
Neville
Vancouver
Kim Neville is an author and graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, where she found the first shiny piece of inspiration that became The Memory Collectors. When she’s not writing she can be found heron-spotting on the seawall or practicing yoga in order to keep…
New, William
vancouver
William
New
vancouver
William New (poet, children's writer, literary critic; b Vancouver 1938) was educated at UBC in English and Geography (BEd 1961, MA 1963) and ULeeds (PhD 1966). He taught at UBC (1965-2003), specializing in the English literatures of the Commonwealth; edited Canadian Literature…
Newall, Carol Marie
Rosseau
Carol Marie
Newall
Rosseau
Carol Marie Newall lives in the Muskoka Lakes district north of Toronto with her husband and granddaughter. Her surprise discovery of a family secret inspired a longterm quest to learn about the British Child Migration to Canada, a little known program that sent more than one…
Newman, Miranda
Toronto
Miranda
Newman
Toronto
Miranda is the author of Rough Magic, a memoir-in-essays about living with borderline personality disorder. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Broadview Magazine, The Walrus, and more. Her story, “Kids in Crisis,” received an honourable mention from the…
Newman, Lenore
Newton, Blaine
Edmonton
Blaine
Newton
Edmonton
Blaine is a playwright, sketch and fiction writer, improviser, actor, and recovering engineer. When not talking about himself in the third person, he’s been in shows you’ve never seen, published in anthologies you’ve never read, designed roads you’ve never driven down, and…
Ng, Wayne
Ottawa
Wayne
Ng
Ottawa
Wayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melon and kung fu movies. Ng is a social worker who lives to write, travel, eat, and play, preferably all at the same time. He is an award-winning author and traveller who continues…
Nguyen, Linh San
Toronto
Linh San
Nguyen
Toronto
Linh (she/her) is a Vietnamese-Canadian immigrant and writer who specializes in children’s literature and creative non-fiction. Her debut middle-grade fantasy novel, NO PLACE LIKE HOME, was released with HarperCollins Canada in March 2023 (Inkyard Press US/ Audiobook Editions in…
Nicholls, Sandra
Ottawa
Sandra
Nicholls
Ottawa
Sandra Nicholls has written two books of poetry, three novels and numerous short stories. Her first novel, And the Seas Shall Turn to Lemonade, was short listed for the K.M.Hunter Artists Award and was published in the fall of 2011. Her second book of poetry, Woman of…
Nicholson, Lorna
Nicholson, Norma Fay
Mississauga
Norma Fay
Nicholson
Mississauga
Photo of Norma Fay Nicholson
Norma is a five-time self-publisher of nonfiction books. She writes for all age groups, including children's picture books. She is the Founder and CEO of  IgnitePress Consultant, a small not-for-profit organization and its sole proprietor registered with the Government of…