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Gabriola Island
Claire Eamer is a professional writer and winner of numerous awards for science writing for young people. She is the author of trade nonfiction books, primarily on science and history, for middle grades, as well as a picture book for preschoolers and primary grades. She has…
Gabriola Island
Claire
Eamer
Ottawa
Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer feminist writer, visual poet, editor and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory.
Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, Sweden, 2021) and fallen angel…
Ottawa
Amanda
Earl
Gabrielle
Gabrielle Earnshaw is the official biographer for Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Catholic priest and spiritual teacher. Her forthcoming book Becoming Henri: The Authorized Biography of Henri Nouwen will be published by St. Martin's Essentials, MacMillan, New York (release date:…
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Earnshaw
Nanaimo
Sharon Easton is among the first generation of Jews born after the Holocaust in Canada. Her birthplace was rural Nova Scotia, where her grandparents and mother immigrated after they fled their home in Lithuania; arriving in Canada six weeks before World War II officially began.…
Nanaimo
Sharon
Easton
Toronto
Kim Echlin is a novelist. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and has held Writer-in-Residence positions at the Toronto Public Library and McMaster University. She is a board member of PEN International and is active in international scholarship programs.…
Toronto
Kim
Echlin
Trisia Eddy Woods is the author of A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses (Turnstone Press, 2024.) A former editor for Red Nettle Press, Trisia’s writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals and chapbooks across North America including Contemporary Verse 2, The Garneau…
Trisia
Eddy Woods
Toronto
Miriam Edelson is a neurodivergent social activist, settler, writer and mother living in Toronto, Canada. Her literary non-fiction, personal essays and commentaries have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, various literary journals including Dreamers Magazine,…
Toronto
Miriam
Edelson
Calgary
Patti Edgar is a writer and educator. Her short prose has been published in Queen's Quarterly, Grain, FreeFall, The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, Blank Spaces, The Nashwaak Review, and Prairie Fire. She also contributed an essay to the anthology Waiting (…
Calgary
Patti
Edgar
Dundas
A Maritime Canadian by birth and sensibility, Ruth's Maritime and war-themed fiction and non-fiction appears in publications based in Canada, the US and the UK. She is author of A Watch in the Night: The story of Pomquet Island's last lightkeeping family (Nimbus, 2007),…
Dundas
Ruth
Edgett
Born in Washington D.C. on May 26, 1944. Has dual citizenship. Served as an army infantry medic for 3 years in Panama. Former MP from Quebec. Writen over 95 books, most best-sellers in English or French. Now writing 5 books a year. Latest U.S. book got a great review from NY…
Phil
Edmonston
Westport
(Author, editor, publisher) Frank B. Edwards switched from magazine publishing to books early in his career — and then launched his own kids book company with illustrator/author John Bianchi. Bungalo Books and Pokeweed Press. Together they created 40 children's titles that sold…
Westport
Frank B
Edwards
Edmonton
My last novel, The Sicilian Wife was named a Best Book of 2015 by The National Post, who described it as “a masterful tale of family, murder, and the inescapable pull of the past.” The literary noir received rave reviews in Canada, the U.S. and Sicily; a French edition, L’Epouse…
Edmonton
Caterina
Edwards
Kagawong
sophie anne edwards (she/her/settler) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based on Manitoulin Island (Mnidoo Mnising). She came to geography circuitously (PhD/ABD Geography, Queens U) via an Interdisciplinary Masters (Laurentian U), poetics via her environmental art…
Kagawong
Sophie
Edwards
Victoria
Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, in the woods as a faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor. Along the way he earned a B.A. and M.Ed.…
Victoria
Michael
Elcock
Toronto
R. Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, writer, and software developer. A prolific filmmaker (he has made over sixty hours of films), which have been screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Film Workshop, Berlin’s Kino Arsenal, Paris’s Centre Pompidou, the San…
Toronto
R. Bruce
Elder
Sarah Ellis was born in Vancouver in 1952. She earned a B.A. at the University of British Columbia. in 1973, and her MLS in 1975, and an M.A. at Simmons College, Boston in 1980. She writes a column on Canadian children's books for Hornbook magazine, and works part-time as a…
Sarah
Ellis
Simcoe, ON
Deb was born and raised in small town Ontario, she has a high school diploma, and took up writing because she was so anti-social. She's still ani-social, but now it's called 'artistic temperment'. She's an old anti-war activist, and gives lots of school talks on the arts and…
Simcoe, ON
Deborah
Ellis
Louise Ells grew up beside the Ottawa River, then combined random jobs (chef, caregiver, co-pilot on a submarine) with years of travel. The author of Notes Towards Recovery, a thematically-linked short story collection, Louise earned her PhD in Creative Writing from Anglia…
Louise
Ells
Halifax
Michelle Elrick is the author of the books Then/Again and To Speak, and the chapbooks Photon Touch and remember the old log house. She is also an established poetry-film-maker, with recent releases "The __ Place," "Ditches" and "Trace" gaining audiences on CBC television,…
Halifax
Michelle
Elrick
Vancouver
Daniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her poetry collections are the broken boat (2020), the weight of dew (2012), milk tooth bane bone (2013), the book of it (2011), slow erosions (2020) and…
Vancouver
Daniela
Elza
Halifax, NS
Sarah Emsley’s books include Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues (Palgrave, 2005) and a critical edition of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country (Broadview, 2008). After receiving her PhD from Dalhousie University, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the…
Halifax, NS
Sarah
Emsley
KINGSTON
Lt. Col.-Dr. John A. English retired from the Canadian army in 1993 with 37 years of service and regimental affiliation with the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, the Queen's Own Rifles, and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He also served on exchange with the Queen’s Own…
KINGSTON
John
English
Urbania, Nova Scotia
Sharon English’s books include the novel Night in the World (May 2022), and two collections of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity. Zero Gravity was long-listed for the Giller Prize, short-listed for the ReLit Award, and was a Globe & Mail Best 100 title of…
Urbania, Nova Scotia
Sharon
English
