Al Rempel’s books of poetry are Undiscovered Country (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019), This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For (Caitlin Press, 2013),  Understories (Caitlin Press, 2010) and two chapbooks: Four Neat Holes (Leaf Press, 2016) and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick…

Colleen René is a Nova Scotia-raised Toronto-based writer. Her work has appeared in journals across Canada and her short story All That’s Left won Dalhousie University’s James DeMille Short Story Prize in 2016. Her short story Growing Pains was long-listed for the CBC Short…

II was born in Smith Falls Ontario. When I actually had to work for a living it was for Northern Telecom and Nortel for 30 years, retiring in 2002. I am a Native Algonquin person, belong to the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. My early years were spent in Wilton an Odessa Ontario…

Greg Rhyno’s first novel To Me You Seem Giant was nominated for a ReLit Award and an Alberta Book Publishing Award. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals including Hobart, Riddle Fence, PRISM International, and The Quarantine Review. He completed an MFA at the…

Born in Leamington, Ontario to parents from the Molise region of Italy, Nino Ricci completed studies at York University in Toronto, at Concordia University in Montreal, and at the University of Florence, and has taught extensively both in Canada and abroad, including two years…

Vanessa is a word sorceress — an SFF author and editor — who loves a good story. She’s a NaNoWriMo veteran, a Halloween enthusiast, and a bookish geek who loves dragons, dogs, astronomy, travel and good tequila.

Giovanna Riccio is a University of Toronto graduate with a major in philosophy. She is the author of  one chapbook and two poetry collections. Her poems, essays and book reviews have appeared in national and international anthologies and journals including Exile Quarterly, CV2,…

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His…

Bruce Rice is the previous Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, an essayist, and editor living in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4 Territory and the Métis homeland. He grew up in Prince Albert and returned to the province after ten years in the Maritimes. Bruce holds a B.A. from Saint…

Faith Richardson can’t remember a time when she was not fascinated by stories. A confirmed  ‘bookaholic,’ early favorites were the Enid Blyten ‘Adventure’ series, the Nesbit stories, and later  the novels of Rosemary Sutcliff, Ursula Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and L. M.…

Lisa Richter (she/her) is a poet, writer and educator. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017) and Nautilus and Bone (Frontenac House, 2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US), the…

Kelly-Anne Riess is an award-winning freelance journalist and poet who lives in Regina. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and other newspapers across the country. She has travelled across North America working on documentaries…

Brian Rigg is Jamaican born Canadian writer and agitator currently living in Toronto. His poems has recently been published in The Hawaii Review, Genre Urban Arts: House Vol.2 and A3 Review.  His work has been anthologised in: Ma’ka: Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by…

A writer and documentary-maker, I live with my partner in rural eastern Ontario, Canada.  It’s a half-wild place, where I find the view clearer than in the surge and tumult of the mainstream. From here I generate books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays…

Scot Ritchie is an award winning author/illustrator who lives in Vancouver. He has written and illustrated numerous children's books, which have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Polish, French and Arabic. Scot has worked with the National Film Board of…

Whether spread across hundreds of pages of prose, or distilled into three verses and a chorus, Rob Ritchie is a storyteller.  His four literary novels have been read and mused over by fiction aficionados and book clubs alike. Rob is also keen to share his talents with other…

Erika Ritter was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto, specializing in drama. She lives mainly in Toronto, where she works as a playwright, radio dramatist, novelist, humourist, short fiction writer and radio…

Ken Rivard has lived in Calgary since 1976. Born in Montreal, he received his Masters Degree from McGill University. Aside from freelance writing, Ken currently works part-time as a university instructor. He has presented dozens of successful writing workshops at all levels in…

Filipino Canadian writer Patria Rivera’s first poetry collection, Puti/White (Frontenac House Media, Calgary, Alberta, 2005), was shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Rivera has also published three other books of poems: The Bride Anthology (…