Member Directory
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Toronto
Edmonton
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…
Victoria
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…
Toronto
Toronto
Ronna Bloom is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent book, The More (Pedlar Press, 2017) was longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and translated into Bangla, Chinese and Spanish…
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Arthur Boers (arthurboers.com) is an Anglican priest and a Benedictine Oblate. His degrees include: MFA (Seattle Pacific), B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, M.A. in Peace Studies from Associated Menonite Biblical Seminary, M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, M…
Guelph, ON
Guelph, ON
Born in Houston, Texas, Jo Ellen Bogart attended the University of Texas in Austin, earning degrees in education and psychology. She came to Canada in 1975 and settled in Guelph, where she still lives. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.--having attained her Canadian…
Victoria
Victoria
Dennis E Bolen has led the literary life since his late teens, experimenting with poetry in high school before taking two university degrees in creative writing. He published seven books of fiction with three different publishers over a career that saw him work as editor for sub…
Bobcaygeon, ON
Bobcaygeon, ON
Jean Booker was born and educated in the north of England. She came to Canada after a ten-year correspondence with a pen-pal in Montreal. She lived in Montreal for a year, then came to Toronto where she met and married Neil. She now has two daughters and two grandchildren. She…
Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Sonja Boon is a researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist living in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Passionate about stories and storytelling, she is the author of What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019), a memoir that traverses five continents and spans…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Kate A Boorman is an award-winning author from Edmonton, with roots in the small town of Rimbey, Alberta. The first book in her acclaimed Winterkill trilogy won the R. Ross Annett award for Children’s Fiction in 2014. Her most recent YA release, What We Buried (Henry Holt), was…
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz is a poet and a novelist. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, and survived the Holocaust as a child. She has her M.A. in Comparative literature from the University of British Columbia and now teaches Creative Writing at the UBC Department of Continuing Studies…
Dawson City
Dawson City
Tara Borin is a queer, nonbinary poet and writer living in the traditional territory of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, Dawson City, Yukon. Their debut full-length poetry collection, The Pit, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2021. Tara's poems have been anthologized in Resistance:…
Toronto
North Vancouver
North Vancouver
Published by Simon & Schuster Canada in January, 2015, Cathie Borrie's memoir, The Long Hello ~ Memory, My Mother, and Me, is written in spare prose, largely in the form of a dialogue. The Long Hello explores the emotional rewards and challenges that Cathie experienced in…
Toronto
Vancouver
Vancouver
TANYA BOTEJU is a teacher and writer living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Part-time, she teaches English to clever and sassy young people. The rest of her time, she writes and procrastinates from writing. Her…
Toronto
Markham
Toronto
Toronto
As a writer, editor, and strategic communicator, I'm passionate about helping people and organizations share their stories to achieve their desired outcomes. As a spiritual director and workshop facilitator, I help individuals and groups learn from their stories to build better…
Toronto
Toronto
Salpi is a writer and illustrator of children's stories. Her primary interest is in raising awareness about the environment and inspiring children to engage with nature.
She received her MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut in 2016. Her thesis…
