Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years before passing it ...

Guglielmo D’Izzia is an actor and writer originally from Sicily. His artistic pursuits have led him to some of the greatest cities in the world: Rome, New York City, and Toronto, where he now resides. As an actor, he has appeared in domestic and international productions (Hannibal, Warehouse 13, Dis ...

paulo da costa was born in Luanda, Angola and raised in Portugal. He is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. paulo is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O Mitchell City of Cal ...

Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full length novels, she returned t ...

I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, April 2019), inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter. The story is an on-the-road adventure that covers the terrain of love, race and science under the African sky.  A ...

The author of five books of non-fiction, Stephen Dale has also made documentaries for CBC Radio's "Ideas" and other programs; worked as Canadian correspondent for InterPress Service (a news agency based in Rome, Italy, with a focus on the developing world); written a column for Canadi ...

Lisa Dalrymple won The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Writing for Children Competition (2011) for her picture book story "Skink on the Brink," which was later published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Skink on the Brink also won the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Canada, and was a finalist in ...

Jasveer is an author, podcast host, behavioural trainer and award-winning health and safety professional. He is currently based in Canada. He was part of the team of trainers that trained 22,000 volunteers for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. He loves the outdoors and is a big movie buff, w ...

Véronique Darwin writes fiction and essays. She has stories in PRISM International and The Quarantine Review, and forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Her humour pieces appear in Geist, and literary essays and reviews in carte blanche, Porter House Review, Literary Review of Canada, EV ...

I am a writer, curator and organizer based in Toronto. I have twenty nine books to my credit. My Bengali book on Canadian literature, published in 2019, was applauded hugely.  I was born in Bangladesh in 1964 and completed my Bachelor's with honors and Master's in English from Rajshahi ...

As Co-Founder of Anima Leadership, Annahid is a diversity and leadership consultant with over 25 years experience designing and leading change on individual, organization and system levels.  Annahid has managed national campaigns, advised on policy and led many organizational development initiatives ...

Beverley Daurio is the author of three books, including Hell & Other Novels (Coach House/Talon). Her short fiction has been published in the U.S., Australia, England and Romania, as well as in journals across Canada. Her non-fiction has also been widely published, including in The Globe and Mail ...

Lynn writes poems, essays, reviews, and freelance pieces, also poems and stories for children. Born in Moncton, N.B., her first paying job was working in her parent’s independent bookstore, The Bookmark. She graduated with a B.A. in English (Honours) from the University of King’s ...

Lauren B. Davis’s most recent works are EVEN SO, published by Dundurn Press in 2021, and named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Quill & Quire and the Winnipeg Free Press; THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, called “timely and important” by the Toronto Star,  and “enchanting” by the Temz ...

Nicola Davison is a writer and portrait photographer. Her first book, In the Wake (Vagrant Press) was a finalist for the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award and the winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for fiction. Her second novel, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) came out in A ...