Member Directory
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Calgary
Bertrand Bickersteth is an educator who also writes poetry and plays. In 2021, CBC named him a writer to watch. His collection of poetry, The Response of Weeds, won both the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for P ...
Haines Junction
Ellen Bielawski is a lifelong northerner. She's published books set in the Northwest Territories and in Alaska, including Rogue Diamonds which was awarded Best of the Year – Resources by Canadian Geographic, as well as numerous works in The Globe and Mail, Arctic and Orion Magazine. She is president ...
Tina Biello, born in a small logging town in BC, to immigrant parents from Southern Italy. She is an actor, poet and playwright. She has three full length collections of poetry published. Her first collection was part of an interdisciplinary exhibition of watercolor, poetry and music compositions in ...
Milford
Andrew Binks has worked, written, acted and taught across the globe. Andrew holds a BA in Drama from Queen's University, a diploma from LAMDA and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. His second novel, STRIP, was published by Nightwood Editions in October 2013. In ...
Burnaby
Sadhu Binning D. Litt.
Sadhu, a bilingual author, has lived in the Vancouver area since migrating to Canada in 1967. He has published more than nineteen books of poetry, fiction, plays, translations and research. His works have been included in more than fifty anthologies both in Punjabi and Englis ...
Toronto
Ann has an M.A. (1974) from the University of Toronto. For many years she was Head of English in Toronto secondary schools. In 1996 she was named Teacher of the Year. She has given lectures on the teaching of writing at national and international conferences and served for many years as associate pr ...
Vancouver
Kate Bird is the author of the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from A Decade That Changed the City, which was nominated for the 2016 British Columbia Historical Writing Award, City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes and Magic Moments in BC Sports: A ...
Edmonton
Halifax
Bruce Bishop's published work has appeared in over 100 print and online publications in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Brazil since the mid-1990s. He contributed to several guidebook publishers including Fodor’s and DK Eyewitness Guides, and was principal writer for the Mic ...
Port Perry
Lucy E.M. Black studied creative writing at the undergraduate level and later earned an M.A. in nineteenth-century British fiction. She has also studied at the Sage Hill School of Writing, the Humber College School of Writing, and the University of Toronto Creative Writing Programme. Her short sto ...
Gatineau
Robin Blackburn McBride is a Canadian novelist, poet and coach. For over twenty years she worked as a teacher in Toronto, and before that, as an actress. Robin holds degrees in English, Drama and Education from the University of Toronto. Her first novel, The Shining Fragments, was published by Guern ...
Richmond Hill
Yvonne Blackwood is an African-Canadian author of four adult non-fiction books, Into Africa, A Personal Journey, Will That Be Cash or Cuffs? Into Africa the Return, and College Life of a Retired Senior. She has also published three children’s picture books in The Nosey Charl ...
Toronto
Born on a tiny island stuck to the south of England, Kate Blair has worked as a museum curator, a clown and a cook on a ship on the Great Barrier Reef. She's worked at a theme park on the Jersey Shore and made furniture for the Sydney Olympic Village. Now a young adult author and a speculative ...
Born in Quebec City in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais has been a dominant figure in her country's literary landscape for more than 25 years. At twenty, she published her first novel, La Belle Bête, translated as Mad Shadows. In it, she analyzes with fierce lucidity the psychological motivations for a ...
Toronto
A two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013), Becky Blake’s stories and essays have appeared in publications across Canada. Her first novel, Proof I Was Here, was published by Wolsak & Wynn’s Buckrider Books imprint in May 2019. Becky teaches cr ...
Edmonton
Astrid Blodgett's second collection of stories, This is How You Start to Disappear, is forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press. Astrid's first collection of stories, You Haven't Changed a Bit, was long-listed for a ReLit Award in 2014 and was a runner up for the 2013 Dan ...
Victoria
Yvonne Blomer (she/her) is an award-winning travel writer and poet who most recently won the Exile Editions Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. The Last Show on Earth is forthcoming with Caitlin Press in 2022 along with a re-issue of her poetry collection The Book of Places with Palimpsest Press. ...
Toronto
Ronna Bloom is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent book, The More, was published by Pedlar Press in 2017 and long listed for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the CNIB and translated into Spanish, Bangla, and Chinese. Ronna developed the first Poet in Res ...
Toronto
