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Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Pete Sarsfield is from Nova Scotia, where he studied English (and baseball) at Acadia University in Wolfville, with minimal external validation. He then worked as a bartender and hospital orderly, before going to medical school at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and…
Vancouver
Emi
Vancouver
Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and writing on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. Her debut novel Atomweight, by Tidewater Press, tells the story of Aki, a good…
John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Alberta, Manitoba and Ottawa. He graduated from McGill University with an Honours B.A. in 1969, and a Ph.D. from King's College in London in 1972. From 1972-75, he was the Director of an investment company…
Montreal
Montreal
Paulette Marie Sauvé is a painter, tapestry weaver and a writer. Originally from North Bay, Ontario, she obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1992 at the Université du Québec.  The MFA course included studies in northern Italy.She studied visual arts, architecture and…
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Candace Savage was born in the Peace River Country of northern Alberta and earned an Honours BA in English Literature from the University of Alberta. For the more than half a lifetime, however, she has lived and worked in Saskatchewan, with a home base in Saskatoon and a home-…
Cranbrook
Cranbrook
Seven books available in print, eBook, and audiobook. Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide, Break Through to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2018 Edition, The Collaborative Podcast Series: Book 1: The Foundations For Collaboration, Book 2…
Mississauga
Mississauga
Robert J. Sawyer — “the dean of Canadian science fiction,” according to both the CBC and The Ottawa Citizen — is the only Canadian to have won all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial…
A writer and editor and a veteran journalist, (literary editor of The Whig-Standard, managing editor of Harrowsmith magazine, producer with CBC Radio's Morningside and Writers & Company), he is working on a novel about the beauty of baseball and blood relations. He was born…
Toronto
Toronto
Newbie author, wife, mother of 3, New Yorker, not-so-new Canadian, ballet lover, Daily Bread order-picker, traveler, paddler, gardener, cannoli connoisseur, cat and dog friend, funk and disco fan. Decades long volunteering for xcountry/track, TDSB Eco-schools program, and reader…
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Kristine is the author of the young adult novels:The Gamer's Guide to Getting the Girl (Dundurn Press, 2019),The 11th Hour (Dundurn Press, 2018), If This Is Home (Dundurn Press, 2017), andThrowaway Girl (Dundurn Press, 2014). Kristine has a special interest in writing as a…
Toronto
Toronto
Richard Scarsbrook is the author of ten books, including the 2022 ReLit Award finalist The Troupers, The Indifference League, the National Post Bestseller Rockets Versus Gravity, and the OLA White Pine Award winner The Monkeyface Chronicles. His short stories and poems have…
Toronto
Ron
Toronto
Ron Schafrick's stories have appeared in a number of journals, including The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Best Gay Stories 2015 and The Journey Prize Stories 27. His collection of stories, Interpreters, was published by Oberon Press in 2013. For nine years Schafrick…
Toronto
Toronto
Hilary Scharper is a Canadian novelist. Her current project is set of five (mysteriously) water-ly novels unfolding along the shores of the Great Lakes. "Perdita" (Simon& Schuster) is the first in the series. Hilary's writing-with the Great Lakes embraces ecogothic…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Karen Schauber's flash fiction appears in seventy international literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. 'The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings' (Heritage House, 2019), her first editorial/curatorial flash fiction…
Trenton,
Trenton,
René Schmidt was born in Holland and immigrated to Canada when he was three. His parents came too. In his teens and twenties he worked as an underground mine worker, truck driver, construction worker, taxi driver, ship officer trainee and upholsterer. René studied theatre…
Montreal
Montreal
National award-winning broadcaster. Hosted three hour daily radio talkshow for more than 20 years on CJAD Radio in Montreal. Author of Canada is not a Real Country. Currently working on a memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother's Life.  
Eleonore Schönmaier's most recent collection is Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (2021, McGill-Queen's University Press). Wavelengths of Your Song (2013, MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne).  Dust…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Philipp Schott was born in Germany and grew up in Saskatoon. He now lives in Winnipeg where he practises veterinary medicine, writes, and shares a creaky old house on the river with his wife, two teenagers, three cats, and a dog. His first book, a collection of essays titled The…
Roberts Creek, B.C.
Roberts Creek, B.C.
Andreas Schroeder was born to a Mennonite family in Germany, 1946. He emigrated to Canada in 1951. He attended the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto from 1965-71, and obtained his B.A. and M.A. in comparative literature and creative writing. He travelled throughout…
Burnaby, BC
Burnaby, BC
Ellen Schwartz has taught special education, elementary classes, and creative-writing courses for adults. She holds a BSc. in special education from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She works as a corporate and…