Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
Victoria
Victoria
Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking…
Markham
Vancouver and Montreal
Vancouver and Montreal
Naava Smolash teaches in the English department at Douglas College and holds a PhD in English Literature from SFU. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in popular and academic publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian…
Lunenburg, NS
Toronto
Edmonton
Edmonton
Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…
Montreal
Montreal
A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2023. Her most recent book is Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future (University of…
Montréal
Vancouver
Vancouver
Niloufar-Lily Soltani (Lily) is a literary and crime fiction writer, poet, and poetry translator. Her poems have been published in literary magazines such as Strange Horizons and Dissident Voices. Zulaikha, Lily’s debut novel is scheduled to be published in the fall…
Toronto
Toronto
Janet Somerville taught English literature & creative writing for 25 years in Toronto. She is privileged to have ongoing access to Martha Gellhorn's restricted papers in Boston. She is currently working on a book about Morley Callaghan, Canada's first writer to make his…
Calgary
Winnipeg
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Glen Sorestad is a well known poet who lives in Saskatoon. He is a Life Member of both the League of Canadian Poets and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. In November 2000 became the first provincially appointed Poet Laureate in Canada. Sorestad is a Member of the Order of Canada,…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is an award-winning social worker, scholar, writer and public speaker. She is the author of the literary essay Le privilège de dénoncer - Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles, published by Les éditions du remue-ménage in Quebec and Europe…
Toronto
Toronto
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Jamaica-Canadian, former nun, is an Ontario poet/educator with an interest in poetic inquiry. In 2009, she was a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. Her second collection, Travelling Light, Seraphim Editions (2006), was…
Montreal
Montreal
Natalie Southworth’s story collection, "There's Always More to Say," is forthcoming Winter 2026 with Linda Leith Publishing. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. They have won The Brighton Prize, placed third in the Moth Short Story…
Prince Rupert
Montreal
Montreal
OLIVER DEAN SPENCER is an international crime fiction writer and artist who spends his time between Rome, Italy and Montreal, Canada.
To date, he’s published four novels, three as part of the James Cartwright PI series: The Spencer Files (Book 1), Call of the Nightingale (Book…
