Meaghan Hackinen is a writer and cyclist whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and, most recently, from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Her writing explores…

Jamella Hagen’s first collection of poetry, Kerosene, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2011. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UBC, has worked as an executive editor of PRISM international, has been a guest editor for the Northern Review, and has…

Lori Hahnel is the award-winning author of five books of fiction. Her latest novel, Flicker, was published in the University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series in 2023. Vermin: Stories shortlisted for several awards and won a 2022 Alberta Literary Award. Her other…

I am a wildlife veterinarian, author and storyteller. I have published 6 non-fiction books about my career and the animals I have worked with in Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Mongolia. They species include giraffe (my first case), rhinos, elephants, lions, hippo, a…

Ken Haigh has lived in China, Bhutan, and on Baffin Island. He has written two books, a memoir of life as a teacher in eastern Bhutan, Under the Holy Lake, and an account of walking the Pilgrims' Way in England, On Foot to Canterbury, which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston…

Solomon  Hailemariam has won the first Burt Award for African Literature for his Young Adult book “The Young Crusader”. Solomon has attended his higher education in Addis Ababa University, University of South Africa,  University of the Western Cape. The Venice Academy of Human…

Michael Hale lives in Elora, Ontario. He was born in Liverpool, England, and at the age of seven emigrated with his family to Canada. He grew up in Aurora, Ontario before moving to Toronto to attend The University of Toronto and the New School of Art. In the early eighties,…

Amanda Hale began her writing career as an immigrant in 1970s Montréal. She has published four novels, two poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories set in the village of Baracoa, Cuba. Her work has appeared in many Canadian & US literary magazines. She won the…

Phil Hall was raised in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. He attended the University of Windsor. He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Toronto New School, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been…

While I'm currently focusing my writing energies on a historical novel, for the past decade my publishing credits have been in non-fiction. I have a particular interest in profiles and creative non-fiction, and my writing about urban culture, politics and design has appeared in…

Phil Halton is a veteran and author of "Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred-Year War" and two novels, "Every Arm Outstretched" and "This Shall Be a House of Peace." His latest work is the satirical graphic novel, "The Sandbox." His writing has appeared in the Globe and…

Terrie Hamazaki (she/her) is a Vancouver based writer who performed her plays at the Fringe and Women in View Performing Arts Festivals. Her writing has appeared in Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Caitlin Press), Sustenance (Writers from BC and Beyond…

Sylvia D. Hamilton is an award-winning Nova Scotian artist known for the documentaries Portia White: Think on Me, The Little Black School House, Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia, and Black Mother Black Daughter, among others. Her 2014 poetry collection, And I…

Jane Silcott’s first collection of essays, Everything Rustles, published with Anvil Press, was a finalist in the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize in the 2014 BC Book Prizes. She is co-editor, with Fiona Tinwei Lam, of the anthology Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs,…

Patti-Kay Hamilton writes, paddles, skis,coaches and hunts on the lands of the NWT Metis Nation and Salt River First Nations. Home is Fort Smith in the heart of Wood Buffalo National Park where the Slave River rapids rumble even in the winter and whooping cranes soar overhead in…

Jo Hammond.Born a stone’s throw from the English Channel in Bognor Regis, Jo Hammond’s first job was as a dairy farmer. After studying Music and Science in a Liverpool teacher’s college, she became a secondary and elementary school teacher, also a member of the Royal Liverpool…

Coming from generations of English blue water sailors, Heather Harbord arrived in Canada in 1963. She lived in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia before returning to British Columbia in 1977. She now makes her home in Powell River, B.C. in a house overlooking three…

Kim Harbridge (she/her) is a writer and editor of speculative, scary, and otherwise strange fiction. Her writing has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Pulp Literature, AE Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. When she's not writing and…

At different times, an author, playwright, broadcaster, critic, arts commentator, economic historian, newspaper columnist, grassroots activist, public advocate, consultant, democratic socialist politician, and muckraker, Herschel Hardin brings his lively iconoclastic style to…

I am an award-winning (The Journey Prize, Canadian Authors Association Silver Jubilee Award)  writer whose work has appeared in eight anthologies, including twice in both Best American Short Stories and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and once in Best Canadian Short…

Born in 1923, northern British Columbia. Bomber pilot, WWII. BA, 1948, UBC; MFA, 1950, University of Iowa. Fourteen years with the CBC in Vancouver as producer, station manager, and director of radio, BC region. Twenty-four years with the Department of Creative Writing at UBC,…