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Stursberg, Richard
Subramanian Kanta, Sneha
Greater Toronto Area
Sneha
Subramanian Kanta
Greater Toronto Area
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer and academic from the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. A 2024 Resident Artist at Deer Lake Artist Residencies run by the city of Burnaby, she is a recipient of a scholarship for the 2023 Rutgers-Camden Poets and Scholars Retreat from Rutgers. She…
Such, Peter
Peter
Such
Peter Such was born in England and came as a youngster to Canada in 1953. He worked loading freightcars for the Canadian National Railways and in uranium mines, Elliot Lake. He graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto(M.A. 1966) and was a working class member of "…
Suk, Sarah
Vancouver
Sarah
Suk
Vancouver
Sarah Suk (pronounced like soup with a K) lives in Vancouver, Canada, where she writes stories and admires mountains. She is the author of young adult novels The Space between Here & Now and Made in Korea, as well as the co-writer of John Cho’s middle grade novel…
Sulaiman, Sonia
Windsor
Sonia
Sulaiman
Windsor
Sonia writes stories inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy, Palestine Book, Arab American Book awards, and was a finalist for the Best New Weird Award. She has stories published in ArabLit Quarterly, Fantasy, FIYAH, and…
Sullivan, Rosemary
Toronto
Rosemary
Sullivan
Toronto
Rosemary
Rosemary Sullivan is the author of sixteen books in the multiple genres of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. Her books include Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen which won a Governor General’s Award, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out,…
Sullivan, Michael
Sault Ste. Marie
Michael
Sullivan
Sault Ste. Marie
Michael Sullivan is an Associate Professor of International Relations at St. Mary's University and a Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Earned Citizenship and Born Innocent: Protecting the Dependents of Accused Caregivers,…
Summers, Merna
Merna
Summers
Merna Summers was born in Alberta, and was a reporter and freelance journalist before turning to fiction. She has been active in The Writers' Union (as National Council member and second vice-president) and in the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She visited China in 1987 as a member…
Sundara Rajan, Mira
Sutherland, Chanel
Montreal
Chanel
Sutherland
Montreal
Chanel
Chanel M. Sutherland is the winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize. In addition, she was awarded the 2022 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship, longlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Max Margles Fiction Prize.…
Sutherland-Brown, Helen
Helen
Sutherland-Brown
Born in Hastings County, Hannah Brown currently lives in the Beach in Toronto. She has two degrees in film from York University and has won awards for screenwriting, including one from the NFB for How to Call Cows. After a happy sojourn teaching film and English at the college…
Swan, Dane
Toronto
Dane
Swan
Toronto
Dane Swan is the editor of the critically praised anthology, "Changing the Face of Can Lit."  His second book, “A Mingus Lullaby,” (Guernica Editions) was a finalist for the 2017 Trillium Book Prize for Poetry. A past Writer in Residence for the Open Book Foundation of Ontario,…
Swan, Michael
Toronto
Michael
Swan
Toronto
Michael Swan is an award winning journalist whose books include, Out of the Cold (Catholic Register Press), Written on My Heart (Novalis) and Here With Us (Novalis). Written on My Heart, a critical exploration of traditional Catholic prayers, was awarded a third prize in the…
Swan, Susan
Susan
Swan
Susan Swan is the Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada for the 2007-2008 year. Fiction by Susan Swan has been published in sixteen countries, including Canada, Spain, the U.S., Poland, Germany, the U.K. Australia, Italy and Holland. One of her novels, The Wives of Bath, was…
Swan, Mary
Guelph
Mary
Swan
Guelph
Mary Swan grew up in Southwestern Ontario and graduated from York University. She published her first short stories in the early 1970s and spent a number of years wandering and travelling, returning to settle in Guelph, Ontario in 1982. Mary worked for many years in the…
Sweatman, Margaret
Winnipeg
Margaret
Sweatman
Winnipeg
Margaret Sweatman writes novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry and songs, and performs with jazz and new music ensembles. Her most recent novel is The Gunsmith's Daughter (2022).
Swede, George
Toronto
George
Swede
Toronto
George Swede received his B.A.(Hons. Psych.) from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and his M.A. (Expm. Psych.) from Dalhousie University in 1965. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, periodicals and miscellaneous…
Sylvester, Kevin
Toronto
Kevin
Sylvester
Toronto
Kevin
Kevin Sylvester is an award winning illustrator, writer and broadcaster. He has written and illustrated more than thirty books for kids. His novel is The Fabulous Zed Watson! Co-written with his kid Basil was a finalists for the 2021 GG awards! It’s the story of a non-binary…
Syms, Shawn
Toronto
Shawn
Syms
Toronto
Shawn Syms has written for over 25 years for more than 50 publications. His work has been short-listed for the prestigious Journey Prize. Shawn wrote the short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar, a National Post pick for the Top Books of 2014, recently seized by the…
Szado, Ania
Ania
Szado
Ania Szado is the bestselling author of two novels—STUDIO SAINT-EX and BEGINNING OF WAS (Penguin Random House). Her writing has been published in Canada, the US, and Europe; shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and nominated for National Magazine Awards and the…
Sze, Gillian
Montreal
Gillian
Sze
Montreal
GILLIAN SZE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014), Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015), and Panicle (ECW Press, 2017), which were finalists for the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She…
Taber, Nancy
Nancy
Taber
Nancy Taber's debut novel, A SEA OF SPECTRES, is publishing with Acorn Press in June 2024. Nancy is a university professor and fiction author who loves stories about strong complex women. She writes in the genres of non-fiction, historical fiction, mystery, and speculative…
Tacon, Claire
Tait, Lynn
Sarnia
Lynn
Tait
Sarnia
Lynn Tait is an award-winning poet and photographer residing in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Her poems have appeared in FreeFall, Vallum, CV2, Literary Review of Canada, Trinity Review, High Shelf Press, The Quarantine Review, Verse/Virtual, Muleskinner, Last Leaves and in over 100…
Tamaki, Jillian