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Moncton
Moncton
Janet Coulter Sanford enjoyed a 30-year career as a high school English teacher. An avid reader herself, she fostered a love of reading in many students.  Throughout her career, she advocated for Canadian literature in the classroom and championed Canadian writers at every…
Victoria
Victoria
Susan Sanford Blades (first name: Susan, last name: Sanford Blades) lives on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən people–the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations (Victoria, BC). Her debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and…
Cambridge
Cambridge
Rosemary is versatile writer with a rich educational background, having studied in both Canada and Europe. Fluent in English and Italian, she began writing at a young age, creating stories and poems inspired by everyday experiences. Her ardor for the written word has remained…
Montreal
Montreal
Robyn Sarah was born in New York City to Canadian parents and has lived for most of her life in Montreal. Following studies in music at the Conservatoire du Quebec, and philosophy and English at McGill University, she taught English for 20 years at Champlain College in St.…
Brossard
Brossard
Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Alejandro Saravia lives since 1986 in the province of Quebec. 
Anne Gray lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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 forthcoming collection is Rush of Wingspan (2026, McGill-Queen's University Press). The music-theater production Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] in collaboration with the Greek composer Michalis Paraskakis is based on text from Field Guide to the Lost…
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…