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Peterson, Lois

Nanaimo

Lois

Peterson

Nanaimo

Born in the UK, Lois Peterson was raised in England, at a Cornish boarding school, and in Iraq. She came to Vancouver in 1971 via Paris, London and New York. In BC she raised a daughter, Holly, and worked for 40 years in a public library. Meanwhile, her short stories, articles…

Peterson, Shelley

TBA

Shelley

Peterson

TBA

Shelley Peterson was born in London, Ontario and studied theatre at Dalhousie University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Western University. She's worked as an actress in theatre, film and television since childhood. Currently she's working on a new novel, and raises and…

Phan, Rachel

Toronto

Rachel

Phan

Toronto

Rachel Phan is a Toronto-based Chinese Canadian author. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Master of Journalism program, she's shared her stories on CBC, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Huffpost, and Maclean's.Rachel’s work often explores the impacts of racism,…

Phillips, Wendy

Gabriola Island

Wendy

Phillips

Gabriola Island

Wendy Phillips is a writer of young adult novels in verse. Her first novel, Fishtailing, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's text in 2010. Her second novel, Baggage, was published in 2019, and was short-listed for the Ontario Library…

Phillips, Dorothy

Ottawa

Dorothy

Phillips

Ottawa

Dorothy Anne Phillips, graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta. A social psychologist, she retired from a research career in the federal civil service in 1996. Living in Ottawa, she took advantage of Library and Archives Canada to find records…

Phillips, Deborah A.M.

Mont-Tremblant

Deborah A.M.

Phillips

Mont-Tremblant

Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe),B.A., M.F.A, is an editor, poet, conference speaker and author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their own crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada…

Phinney, Sandra

Yarmouth

Sandra

Phinney

Yarmouth

Sandra Phinney is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose by-line and photos have appeared in over 70 publications. Her stories focus on everything from business to health, the environment, lifestyle and travel. She’s contributed to four travel guides including…

Pidgorna, Maria

Pierce, E. Alex

Sable River

Pietropaolo, Vincenzo

Caroline Pignat is the two-time Governor Generalʼs Award winning author of seven highly acclaimed novels. She writes contemporary YA, historical fiction, and free verse novels that dig into her characters through multiple forms and points of view. Back in high school, …

Pihac, Branko

Mississauga

Branko

Pihac

Mississauga

Canadian writer with Croatian heritage, Branko graduated radio-communications from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb with honors. His earliest stories appeared in the SF magazine SIRIUS when he was still a student. He was the owner of a small business, designing control…

Pike, Lisa

Lisa

Pike

*/ Lisa Pike was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied in France, worked in Italy, and completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New Quarterly, Exile, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations:…

Pilling, Marilyn Gear

Hamilton

Marilyn Gear

Pilling

Hamilton

Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is On Huron’s Shore (Demeter Press), five collections of poetry, one chapbook, Estrangement (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2017), and is the editor of a…

Pinkney, Jeff

Haliburton and Baden

Jeff

Pinkney

Haliburton and Baden

Jeff Pinkney is a settler who splits his time living in Baden, Ontario (the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenodaunee peoples) and in Haliburton, Ontario (the traditional territory collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations). Jeff is a…

Pirani, Ayaz

Ayaz

Pirani

Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here (The Word Works, 2016), Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets (Mawenzi House, 2019) and How Beautiful People Are (Gordon Hill Press, 2022). His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Guest 16. Ayaz’s…

Pirbhai, Mariam

Waterloo

Mariam

Pirbhai

Waterloo

Mariam Pirbhai is a creative writer and academic. She is the author of a book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), Winner of the 2024 Sarton Women's Book Award for nonfiction, Honourable…

Alcove

Alcove

Pearl Pirie is a poet living in rural Quebec just outside of Ottawa. She has 4 trade collections out and a couple dozen chapbooks. She is a haikuist and generalist poet. She has run a small press since 2011. Her poetry has been published since 1991. She has written full time…

Pitt, Steve

Rutherglen

Steve

Pitt

Rutherglen

Steve Pitt has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 1980 he won the top Periodical Distributors Author’s Award for humour with a groundhog recipe article that was published in…

Toronto

Toronto

Jaclyn Piudik is the author of The Dark Oar [English translations of Paul Celan's French self-translations] (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017), Seduction: Out of Eden, written collaboratively with Janet R. Kirchheimer (Kelsay Books, 2022),…

Peterborough

Peterborough

Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.