Member Directory
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Toronto
Michelle Alfano's personal memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) was selected as one of The Globe 100 Best Books of the Year. Her novella, Made Up of Arias, was a winner of the Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story “Opera”, on which the novella was based, was a finalist ...
Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory
Taiaiake was born at Tiohtiake (Montreal) in 1964 and raised on the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory. He was educated by Jesuits, served as a U.S. Marine Corps infantryman, and later earned degrees in history and political science at Concordia University and Cornell University. His writings include books ...
Parry Sound region
Erin Alladin is an editor, a writer, and an ecology enthusiast who is always looking for ways to combine her passions. Born in Northern Ontario to a gardener and a forester, she spent most of her early life looking at and thinking about the natural world. As a young adult she spent nearly a decade i ...
Calgary
Rona Altrows was born and raised in Montreal and lives in Calgary. Both cities inform her writing. She writes fiction, essays, plays, and hybrid pieces. Her books include two collections of short stories, A Run on Hose (2006) and Key in Lock (2010) as well as a collection of fictional lett ...
While bestselling author Donna Alward was busy studying Austen, Eliot and Shakespeare, she was also losing herself in the breathtaking stories created by romance novelists like LaVyrle Spencer, Judith McNaught, and Nora Roberts. Several years after completing her degree she decided to write a roman ...
Ucluelet
Alexandra Amor is a lifelong explorer of what it means to be human. For 20 years Alexandra has been writing both fiction and non-fiction books, all with the themes of love, connection, and the search for understanding. She began her writing career with an Amazon best-selling, award-winning memoir ab ...
Toronto
Lene – pronounced Lena — is an award-winning writer, health and disability advocate and photographer living in Toronto,. Born and raised in Denmark, Lene has had autoimmune arthritis since she was four years old and has used a power wheelchair since her teens. She holds a Masters in Social Work and ...
Gimli
Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who spent many years running Theatre Schools and presenting creative arts programmes for arts organisations, notably at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. Now she lives in Gimli, Manitoba where she draws, paints and writes as part of a thriving arts community ...
Halfmoon Bay
Patricia Anderson, a BC author, editor, and literary consultant, earned a PhD from UBC, with specialties in history, popular culture, and publishing studies. While living in London, England, she was assistant editor of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, and co-editor of a two-volume re ...
Dr. Lloyd has written Not a Total Waste, now published in a second edition, 1999, after her only son died of AIDS. Acclaimed as a successful palliative care text, the book has continued to be well received. Her writing of the hockey book and angel book which followed established her as a respected j ...
Stratford
R.J. (Rebecca) Anderson was writing stories at eight, started her first novel at twelve, and is now the author of ten published fantasy novels for older children and teens including KNIFE (Hachette UK Canada, 2009), the tale of a fierce young faery who fights to save her dying people while concealin ...
Salmon Arm
GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award an ...
Thunder Bay
Vancouver
Suzanne Alyssa Andrew is the author of the novel Circle of Stones (Dundurn Press), and two books-in-progress. She’s also a contributing editor for beloved Canadian literary magazine, Taddle Creek. A former arts journalist and story director for award-winning digital TV and film co-productions and na ...
Saanichton (Vancouver Island)
Kelsey Andrews is best known for her poetry, though she writes short fiction too. Recently published in Prism, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire, she writes first drafts in cheap notebooks so she doesn’t feel like she’s ruining a fancy one. She’s written about birdwatching wh ...
Nelson
Susan Andrews Grace has lived in Nelson, BC since 2001 but lived many years in Saskatoon, SK. She holds a BA (Philosophy and an MFA (Poetry). She also maintains a visual art practice and has exhibited works in Canada and USA.
Lexie Angelo is a crime writer and short story author currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her chapbook A Rough Season was released in 2020 by Loft on Eighth Press. Additionally, her work has also appeared in Gutter Magazine, Culinaire Magazine, Neon Books, ...
Vernon
Natalie Appleton is an award-winning Canadian writer living in the Okanagan. She is a graduate of the University of Regina School of Journalism and the MA in Creative Writing (Narrative non-fiction) program at City University London, UK.
In her former life as a journalist, she worked at newspapers ...
North York, Ontario
Rona Arato Rona has been a writer and editor for over 25 years. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada and the United States. Rona holds a degree in Elementary Education from U.C.L.A. She has taught elementary school classes in Los Angeles and Toronto, adult Creative Writing for ...
TERREBONNE
I was Born in Montreal. Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, certificate in radio and television animation with several certificates in sales and marketing. Author of the book: Des Poules dans ma Cour (Chickens in my backyard) published at Ecososiété in May 2020. I have always had artistic hobbies su ...
Nelson
Kate Armstrong is the award-winning author of her memoir The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College’s First Female Cadet Speaks Out published in 2019 and named as winner of the 2020 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for best book on women’s history and a finalist for the ...
