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Bird, Kate

Vancouver

Kate

Bird

Vancouver

Kate Bird is the author of the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from A Decade That Changed the City, which was nominated for the 2016 British Columbia Historical Writing Award, City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes and Magic…

Vancouver

Vancouver

Andrea Bishop lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her flash and short pieces appear in Grain, trampset, The Masters Review, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. She’s an alumna of a Tin House Workshop. Andrea recently completed a collection of short stories with support from the Canada…

Edmonton

Halifax

Halifax

Bruce Bishop's published work has appeared in over 100 print and online publications in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Brazil since the mid-1990s. He contributed to several guidebook publishers including Fodor’s and DK Eyewitness Guides, and was…

Bishop-Stall, Shaugnessy

Port Perry

Port Perry

Lucy E.M. Black (she, her, hers) studied creative writing at the undergraduate level and later earned an M.A. in nineteenth-century British fiction. She has also studied at the Sage Hill School of Writing, the Humber College School of Writing, and the University of Toronto…

Blackburn McBride, Robin

Gatineau

Robin

Blackburn McBride

Gatineau

Robin Blackburn McBride is a Canadian novelist, poet and coach. For over twenty years she worked as a teacher in Toronto, and before that, as an actress. Robin holds degrees in English, Drama and Education from the University of Toronto. Her first novel, The Shining Fragments,…

Blackwood, Yvonne

Richmond Hill

Yvonne

Blackwood

Richmond Hill

Yvonne Blackwood is an African-Canadian author of five adult books: Into Africa: A Personal Journey, Will That Be Cash or Cuffs? Into Africa the Return, College Life of a Retired Senior, and her debut novel, The Ambition. She has also published three children’s…

Blair, Kate

Toronto

Kate

Blair

Toronto

Born on a tiny island stuck to the south of England, Kate Blair has worked as a museum curator, a clown and a cook on a ship on the Great Barrier Reef. She's worked at a theme park on the Jersey Shore and made furniture for the Sydney Olympic Village. Now a young adult author…

Blair, Melissa

Melissa

Blair

I'm an Anishinaabe-kwe from Treaty 9 who writes stories about Indigenous and Queer characters (preferably both at the same time). Currentlym I have a traditionally published fantasy romance series The Halfling Saga and will be releasing self-published sapphic romances later in…

Blais, Marie-Claire

Marie-Claire

Blais

Born in Quebec City in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais has been a dominant figure in her country's literary landscape for more than 25 years. At twenty, she published her first novel, La Belle Bête, translated as Mad Shadows. In it, she analyzes with fierce lucidity the psychological…

Blake, Becky

Toronto

Becky

Blake

Toronto

A two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013), Becky Blake’s stories and essays have appeared in publications across Canada. Her first novel, Proof I Was Here, was published by Wolsak & Wynn’s Buckrider Books imprint in May…

Blizzard, Gloria

Toronto

Gloria

Blizzard

Toronto

Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. Her collection of essays Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas will be published in…

Blodgett, Astrid

Edmonton

Astrid

Blodgett

Edmonton

Astrid Blodgett's second collection of stories, This is How You Start to Disappear, is forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press. Astrid's first collection of stories, You Haven't Changed a Bit, was long-listed for a ReLit Award in 2014 and was a runner up…

Blomer, Yvonne

Victoria

Yvonne

Blomer

Victoria

Yvonne Blomer (she/her) is an award-winning travel writer and poet who most recently won the Exile Editions Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. The Last Show on Earth is forthcoming with Caitlin Press in 2022 along with a re-issue of her poetry collection The Book of Places…

Bloom, Ronna

Toronto

Ronna

Bloom

Toronto

Ronna Bloom is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In a Riptide (Brick Books, 2025.) A book of her selected poems, A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, was edited with an introduction by Phil Hall and published by WLUP in 2023.Her poems have been recorded…

Toronto

Burnaby

Burnaby

Andrew Boden’s fiction and non-fiction have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Journey Prize anthology. He is the author of the short story collection The Secret History of My Hometown and also the co-editor of Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental…

Boers, Arthur

Toronto

Arthur

Boers

Toronto

Arthur Boers (arthurboers.com) is an Anglican priest and a Benedictine Oblate. His degrees include: MFA (Seattle Pacific), B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, M.A. in Peace Studies from Associated Menonite Biblical Seminary, M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, M…

Bogart, Jo Ellen

Guelph, ON

Jo Ellen

Bogart

Guelph, ON

Born in Houston, Texas, Jo Ellen Bogart attended the University of Texas in Austin, earning degrees in education and psychology. She came to Canada in 1975 and settled in Guelph, where she still lives. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.--having attained her Canadian…

Bolen, Dennis E

Victoria

Dennis E

Bolen

Victoria

Dennis E Bolen has led the literary life since his late teens, experimenting with poetry in high school before taking two university degrees in creative writing. He published seven books of fiction with three different publishers over a career that saw him work as editor for sub…