Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015),  Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) and A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press 2024) along with 16 chapbooks, including…

Floyd Spracklin was born in Buchans eleven months after Newfoundland became Canada’s 10th Province,  He graduated from Memorial University of NL(1972) with a double major in English and History, and in 1995 earned an MEd from the University of New  Brunswick. He taught…

Ron Srigley is a writer and academic. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, L’Obs, Canadian Dimension, Education Canada, and the MIT Technology Review, as well as in scholarly journals. He teaches philosophy and religious…

Eva Stachniak, born and raised in Wrocław, Poland, came to Canada in 1981 on scholarship to the Department of English, McGill University, in Montreal. In Poland she taught English literature at the University of Wroclaw. In Canada she has been a radio broadcaster and…

Marissa Stapley is the author of the critically acclaimed Globe and Mail bestselling novel Mating for Life, which was released in 2014 by Atria Books and Simon & Schuster Canada and reprinted in June 2016, and Things to Do When It's Raining, out in February 2018 with Graydon…

Lana Pesch’s story collection, Moving Parts, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Awards. As of January 2024, she has reclaimed her birth name, Lana Starchuck, post divorce. Her writing has appeared in Little Bird Stories: Volumes I…

Hannah D. State is an award-winning Canadian author and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her debut novel, Journey to the Hopewell Star, was named “A Must-Have New Brunswick Book of 2020” by Atlantic Books Today, received the Literary Titan Gold Award, was a “RED RIBBON…

Ted Staunton has been publishing stories since writing a picture book called "Puddleman" for a university class way back in the '80s.  Since then he's written over forty books of fiction and non-fiction for readers of middle-grade, YA, picture books, beginning…

Erin Steele is author of SUNRISE OVER HALF-BUILT HOUSES, writes On Being Human on Substack and is a former national-award-winning journalist. She’s also the founder and chief strategist at boutique marketing firm Blue Heron Agency. She's been…

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto with his partner and their two children. His novella “The Man Who Went Down Under” won both the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023). He placed third in the Toronto…

Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk), where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-five books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of…

Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He strums the guitar and pushes a pen. He writes fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry and songs. He’s been the lucky finalist of numerous prizes, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the…

Heather Stemp has a B.A. in English an M.Ed. in Special Education and 24 years of teaching experience in English, Physical Education, Cooperative Education, and Special Education at the secondary school level. For the last six years of her 30-year career, she taught Educational…

Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the…

Over the past 40 years I’ve worked all sides of the publishing desk: journalist, ghost-writer, author, editor, publisher. I have four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication. I co-edited with Susan MacGregor, Tesseracts Twenty-…

L.E. Sterling (also published under pen names L. E. Vollick and Erin Vollick) is the author of multiple novels spanning contemporary, fantasy, science-fiction, dystopian and romance genres. Her hit Young Adult series, the True Born Trilogy (Entangled Teen) was optioned for…

Writer, editor, director, designer Reva Stern was Artistic Director of a Toronto theatre for twenty years.  She has been a Guest Director in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, Pasadena CA, New York City and Los Angeles and has collaborated with such notables as Isaac Bashevis…

Joshua is a writer, life coach and philanthropist who has a passion for helping youth navigate the turbulent waters of growing up. He has created a series of children's books dedicated to his efforts. The Tasha series follows a young German Shepherd experiencing all the…

Diana Stevan likes to joke she’s a Jill of all trades as she’s worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five…