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Toronto
Toronto
Lisa Rochon is a bestselling author and two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards. She writes non-fiction (Up North, Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land, Key Porter Books, 2005) and fiction (Tuscan Daughter, Harper Collins, 2021) as well as essays (AIR, Food, The…
Vancouver
Vancouver
A bilingual author of Indian Diaspora Ajmer Rode has published books of poetry, plays, non-fiction and translation in Punjabi and English. His 1000-page book, Leela, co-authored with N. Bharati is considered an important work of twentieth century Punjabi poetry. His works are…
Oshawa
Oshawa
Margaret Rodgers is a writer, artist, and curator. Over COVID she embarked on a coming-of-age memoir titled Maple Park. She is the author of Locating Alexandra (Toronto: ECW, 1995) about Painters Eleven artist and Oshawa resident Alexandra Luke. Her essays, articles and reviews…
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
Introduction: Bilingual writer, educator and journalist Carmen Rodríguez was born in Chile and moved to Vancouver following the military coup of 1973 in her native country. She has worked as instructor and professor across a range of disciplines – from literature and cultural…
Toronto
Toronto
Stan Rogal was born in Vancouver, now lives and writes in Toronto. Work has appeared in numerous publication in Canada, the US and Europe. The author of 27 books: 8 novels, 7 story and 12 poetry. He has an MA English from York University. 
St-Colomban
St-Colomban
Gina Roitman is a novelist, short story writer, biographer, and writing coach. Her work has been featured in anthologies including The New Spice Box, Wherever I Find Myself, and Living Legacies. Since 2018, she has been conducting writing workshops for The Generations After of…
Toronto
Toronto
Author of successful Hockey Superstars annual. This annual has been published since 1986 by Scholastic Publishing and has, by their estimates, reached the hands of over 2 million young readers via trade and, primarily, school book clubs across Canada. The book is prominantly…
Thornhill
Vancouver
Vancouver
Canada's least prolific living writer
Greater Toronto Area
Vancouver
Vancouver
David Roomy is author of several books on Jungian psychotherapy, and so far, one collection of his poetry; he is a life-time practitioner in these fields. His master’s degree from Union Theological Seminary, NYC, was in the Program of Psychiatry and Religion.  Jungian psychology…
Sometime administrator, librarian, university teacher, social worker, church worship coordinator, senior editor and research officer, Frances Rooney now freelance edits, writes and works with a human resources consulting firm. She lives with her partner, cat and dog in a house…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Jessica Rose is a writer, editor and arts organizer who lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario. A passionate advocate for people and places, she works for a number of not-for-profit organizations focused on literacy, the arts, the environment, health and food security. A graduate…
Rachel Rose’s fiction debut, The Octopus Has Three Hearts, was published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2021, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Marry & Burn, which received a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and…
Toronto
Toronto
Josh Rosen is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator. He is the co-creator of graphic novels The Good Fight with author Ted Staunton (Scholastic Canada, 2021), History Comics: World War II with author Kate Hannigan (First Second Books, 2023) and author of the upcoming…
TORONTO
TORONTO
Rachel A. Rosen is the author of Cascade (The Sleep of Reason Book 1) and the co-author of The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die. She is an activist, graphic designer, and for her sins, a high school teacher. In a previous life, she published two long-…
Toronto
Toronto
Bev Katz Rosenbaum is the author of several works of fiction. She has worked as a fiction and magazine editor, and has taught writing at the college level. Currently, Bev juggles freelance fiction editing with writing books for teens. Her newest YA novel, I'm Good and Other Lies…
Toronto
Toronto
Rebecca Rosenblum is the author of two collections of short stories, Once (winner of the Metcalf-Rooke Award) and The Big Dream, both published by Biblioasis, and the novel So Much Love, published by McClelland and Stewart. Her first work of non-fiction, These Days Are Numbered…
Toronto
Toronto
Anna Rosner is an award-winning author of two biographies for young readers: Journeyman: The Story of NHL Right Winger Jamie Leach (2020), and My Left Skate: The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov (2022). Her first historical novel, Eyes on the Ice, will be published by…
Will travel.
Will travel.
STUART ROSS is the winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Prize and the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize. He is a Cobourg-based fiction writer, poet, editor, translator, and creative-writing instructor. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene…
Gary Ross was born in Toronto in 1948 and graduated from the University of Toronto. He made his living for many years as a magazine writer and editor, and now spends his time writing his own books and editing and publishing other people's books on behalf of Macfarlane, Walter…
Montreal
Montreal
CLAIRE HOLDEN ROTHMAN is a Montreal writer and translator, whose third novel, Lear’s Shadow (2018) won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction and was short-listed for the 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award for Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme. Her second novel, My October (…
Nancy-Gay Rotstein is a writer of both poetry and fiction.  Her books of poetry include Through the Eyes of a Woman, Taking Off, and China: Shockwaves.  Her latest collection is This Horizon and Beyond: Poems Selected and New, which has been published in Canada, the United…
North Bay
North Bay
Jennifer Rouse Barbeau is a writer and illustrator.  Dying Hour (Fluid Grouse Enterprises, 2019), as a finalist in the 2020 Whistler Independent Book Awards for fiction, was celebrated as one of the three best independent Canadian works of fiction in 2020. This novella is part…