Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
Victoria
Victoria
Zoe Dickinson is a poet and bookseller from Victoria, British Columbia. Her poetry is rooted in the Pacific coastline, with a focus on local ecology and human relationships with nature. She has been published in literary journals such as Existere, Prairie Fire, and Contemporary…
Toronto
Toronto
Mary Lou Dickinson's fiction has been published in the University of Windsor Review, Descant, Waves, Grain, Northern Journey, Impulse, Writ, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Woman Studies and broadcast on CBC Radio. Her writing was also included in the anthology, We Who Can Fly: Poems,…
Scarborough
Scarborough
Barbara Dickson is a sought-after professionally-trained public speaker, local historian, and author in both fiction and non-fiction. She has been entertaining and educating audiences for over twenty years. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis…
Toronto
Toronto
Alessia Dickson is the award winning author of The Crystal Chronicles series for teens. Alessia is a youth empowerment advocate working to inspire students to find their creative voice and reach their full potential. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she she frequents cozy…
Sauble Beach
Sauble Beach
Rebecca Diem writes hopeful speculative fiction and poetry. Her work includes contributions to Write magazine and Tor.com, and the steampunk novella series Tales of the Captain Duke. She is the host of Read The North, a radio/podcast miniseries on the history of CanLit as told…
London
Victoria
Victoria
JoAnn Dionne holds an Honours BA in English from McGill University and an MFA in Writing from the University of Victoria. Her first book, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China, was a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and short-listed for the George…
Montreal
Montreal
Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Family Way (2021), shortlisted for the F.G Bressani Literary Prize, and The Geography of Pluto (2014). His essays and short stories have appeared in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far), Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer…
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West Vancouver
West Vancouver
Sandra Djwa, FRSC, CM., is a writer, critic and cultural biographer. A Newfoundlander, she completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968 to 2005 when she retired as J.S.…
Sturgeon Falls
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Jillian delights in discovering stories in the everyday. She’s gathered tales through various unofficial and official roles. Jillian has lived in Alberta and Quebec and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with her incredible husband, their two inspiring children and a cuddly…
Etobicoke
Vernon
Vernon
Michelle Doege holds an MFA in Creative Writing in poetry and mixed genre from Augsburg College (2016), Minneapolis. Her debut book of poems, Root of Light, explores borders and migrations, but also, ancestors, sexuality, crossing internal borders to live our truest, bold selves…
Town of the Blue Mountains
Town of the Blue Mountains
Sean Patrick Dolan is a retired teacher and guidance counsellor. Since 2000, he has written professionally for the education community. He has worked on textbook teams at the Oxford University Press, has written columns and features for Canadian School Counsellor magazine, and…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Alexander C. Dolinin is a Canadian writer of Russian origin. He writes both in English and in Russian.He was born and raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in the former Soviet Union, where he earned an MA in Iranian philology from the State University of Leningrad. After…
Ottawa
Cambridge
White Rock
White Rock
A published academic in psychology and a university instructor, Patricia's pioneering work in Morita Therapy, a Japanese Psychotherapy, has been published internationally. Later she turned her focus to fiction-writing. Drawing from the rich cultural mix of the East Coast, her…
Montreal
Montreal
Ceilidh Michelle is an author from rural Nova Scotia. Her first novel, Butterflies Zebras Moonbeams, published with Palimpsest Press, was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction. Her second book, a work of nonfiction called Vagabond, was published by Douglas &…
Kingston
Kingston
Sue Donaldson (aka Susan Cliffe) is an author, animal advocate, and research associate in the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University. She was born in Ottawa in 1962, and has lived most of her life in Eastern Ontario. She studied at Queen’s (B.A. Hon), University of Toronto…
