Stephanie Cesca is a writer and editor living in Toronto. A former journalist in both Canada and Europe, she holds an English degree from Western University, a journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Certificate of Creative Writing from the University of…

Sam Chaiton is a Toronto author and playwright, a dancer and long-time social justice advocate. His first book, co-authored with Terry Swinton, was the international non-fiction bestseller Lazarus and the Hurricane, which became a basis for the Norman Jewison film The Hurricane …

Lyse Champagne's short story collection, The Light That Remains, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed LIterary Award for best first short story collection.  The stories are set in Turkey, Ukraine, China, France, Cambodia and Rwanda and chronicle the lives of six families…

Gillian Chan was born in England and came to Canada in 1990. A graduate of the University of East Anglia, she taught in high schools for ten years and wrote in secret. Her move to Canada gave her the impetus to write full-time.

Marty Chan writes books for kids and plays for adults. His hit comedy play Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl toured across Canada and finished with an Off Broadway production in 2004. His middle-grade novels have won over reluctant readers. The Mystery of the  Frozen Brains…

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies [Wolsak & Wynn, 2024] and author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, Room, the Ex-Puritan, the Fiddlehead,…

Susan Chapman has been a teacher-librarian and a primary teacher in Toronto and in Markham, Ontario. She has also taught teacher-librarians in East Africa, and worked for a summer in the library in Harrods Dept. Store in London, England. She was inspired to write TOO MUCH NOISE…

Norma Charles was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba and moved to the west coast as a young child. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, she taught school for several years, then "retired" to have four children. It was then that she began to write books for…

Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…

Karen Charleson is a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and an educator. Her first novel Through Different Eyes was published by Signature Editions in 2017.  Karen is a member, through marriage, of the Hesquiaht First Nation and the House of Kinquashtakumtlth. She lives in…

J.G. Chayko is a writer from Vancouver B.C. who has published poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She is a contributing writer to three anthologies and has several short works in print and online. Her work has appeared in Event Magazine, Canadian Stories, Hastings…

SYLV CHIANG (she/her) is the author of several award-winning children's books. As a teacher, she wrote her middle-grade series, Cross Ups, to convince her video game-loving students to put down their controllers long enough to read a novel. The inspiration for her first picture…

LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut novel, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist, Building…

Nancy Chislett is an avid traveler, having visited almost 50 countries on six continents. She also plays classical music on piano and composes a little jazz. Career-wise, she has worked as a high school teacher and as a university administrator of an international student…

Originally from South Korea, Ann Yu-Kyung Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was a Toronto Book Awards finalist and One of CBC Books 12 Best Canadian Debut Novels of 2016. Her published essays explore issues around cultural and…

Kevin Chong is the author of seven books, most recently the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, where he presently lives with his family. He is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He reads and…