Laura Sergeant (she/her) spent her twenties playing electric guitar on North American stages and spent subsequent decades as a Social Work specialist in the field of child and youth mental health. She’s been published in Canadian and American literary journals. Her work has been…

Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness Book: The False Healer: A Trilogy. As an Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness, Paula Sevestre has been led to explore and integrate Wholeness Medicine. This simply means, by…

Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was released November 2024, and was on the CBC Books fall and November preview lists. Renée offers writing workshops in the Amherst Artists…

Carol Shaben is an award-winning author and journalist. Her first book, Into the Abyss, was a national bestseller, selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and an Amazon.com Bestseller and Editor's Choice. Carol’s…

Shaheen (also known in print as Wali Alam Shaheen, W. A. Shaheen, and occasionally by his former pen name Shaheen Ghazipuri) is the author of five collections of Urdu poetry, including Pushtara which was published in 2010. He has been extensively translated, and…

Theresa Shea is the author of three novels: Dog Days of Planet Earth (ECW, Fall 2026), The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions, 2021), and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). She has degrees from McGill, Queen's, and the University of…

Casey Shelley is an author based in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has collected several degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Brunswick, a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Education in…

'Off Centre' (Oberon 2004) Caroline Shepard’s debut collection of short fiction was short listed for the 2005 Danuta Gleed Award. Her first novel, 'Unlit Spaces' (Friesen Press, 2014) was nominated for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Caroline spent her childhood in…

Mary was born in Corner Brook, Nfld. She has spent more than 25 years in the media with Maclean's Magazine, CBC radio, the Women's Television Network and has taught journalism at Ryerson University. She became the executive producer of CBCNews.ca in 2003. Married with two…

Hello! Vanessa, here. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find my profile informative. Be sure to send me a message if you have any questions or if you're interested in working together! I teach full or half-day writing workshops in the elementary and secondary school system…

Leslie Shimotakahara's fourth novel, The Breakwater, was recently acquired for publication by Cormorant Books. Her third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring…

Robert J.M. Shipley grew up in southern Ontario. He studied at University of Western Ontario (BA 1971) and became an officer, first in the army then the navy. During his four years, he served on the prairies, both coasts and at sea. As a freelancer in the 1970s,…

Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair. Jocelyn…

I was born in Toronto in 1945. I completed an Honours BA in French language and literature at the University of Toronto, an MA in Comparative Literature at Carleton University and a PhD in Comparative Literature at l'Université de Montréal. I founded and edited Manna: a review…

Anne Shmelzer's Ottawa Citizen award-winning memoir, The Night My Father Came Back from the War, served as a precursor to her debut novel, A Marginally Noted Man. Anne's extensive knowledge and experience as a psychiatric nurse helped shape her characters and her…