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…

Christopher Patton is a poet, translator, and literary curator. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, New American Writing, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, his visual poetry in Diagram, Ancient Exchanges, Asymptote, and again elsewhere. His most recent books, all with…

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…

Ele Pawelski has lived in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Bosnia, Kenya, Uzbekistan and Kosovo. She has climbed in the Himalayas, walked the Camino and hiked in Newfoundland. Now living in urban Toronto with her husband, she’s always planning for her next travel adventure. Her stories…

LOGHAN PAYLOR is a queer, trans author who lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their short fiction and essays have previously appeared in Room and Prairie Fire, among others. Paylor has a Master's in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and…

Jessica is a writer, poet, gardener and interdisciplinary artist. Her creative practice explores identity, wildness, art, grief, memory, love, survival and the natural world.  She’s the recipient of a HA&L Short Works Prize in literary nonfiction and her poem…

Hilary Peach is a writer, recording artist, and producer of unusual art projects. For twenty years she also worked as a transient welder in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and power generating stations across Canada and the United States. In 2022 she released a memoir…

Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton), a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece, and a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge,” produced by Louise…

ANDREW PEACOCK was born in Toronto and raised in the town of Kapuskasing in northern Ontario. He worked in a mixed animal veterinary practice in rural Newfoundland from 1982 until 2010. His book Creatures of the Rock was long listed for the 2015 Leacock medal…

Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and acquired degrees in English, Librarianship and Children's Literature before she finally began writing childrens novels. She lives in Victoria, B.C. with her partner Katherine Farris and two lively dogs.

Frances Peck wrote fiction and poetry until her early twenties, when the realities of adulthood and rent steered her toward a career as a ghostwriter, editor and instructor. As a professional wordsmith, Frances worked with clients and authors to make their material as polished…

Jon Peirce is a labour and social historian, essayist, playwright, fiction-writer and memoirist who lives and writes in Gatineau, Quebec. In 2011, he retired from an eleven-year career as a labour relations officer and researcher with the Professional Institute of the Public…

Nasreen Pejvack is a published author, with her novel “Amity” published by Inanna Publications, on October 15th 2015.  Soon after, Amity was shortlisted for BC’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Book Prize.  Aside from her successful novel Amity, Nasreen has published…

Abby Pelaez writes about diaspora, anti-capitalism, and explorations of platonic and romantic love. She has read her work at the Vancouver Writer’s Festival, and excerpts from her in-progress food memoir are published in Room Magazine, Hungry Zine, and emerge22. She…