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.
Etobicoke
Etobicoke
Lana Pesch’s story collection, Moving Parts, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Awards. As of January 2024, she has reclaimed her birth name, Lana Starchuck, post divorce. Her writing has appeared in Little Bird Stories: Volumes I…
Port Hope
Port Hope
Ted Staunton has been publishing stories since writing a picture book called "Puddleman" for a university class way back in the '80s. Since then he's written over forty books of fiction and non-fiction for readers of middle-grade, YA, picture books, beginning novels and Hi-Lo. …
Toronto
Toronto
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto with his partner and their two children. His novella “The Man Who Went Down Under” won both the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023). He placed third in the Toronto…
Charlottetown
Charlottetown
Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-four books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation and Word…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He strums the guitar and pushes a pen. He writes fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry and songs. He’s been the lucky finalist of numerous prizes, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Rogers…
North Bay
North Bay
Heather Stemp has a B.A. in English an M.Ed. in Special Education and 24 years of teaching experience in English, Physical Education, Cooperative Education, and Special Education at the secondary school level. For the last six years of her 30-year career, she taught Educational…
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the…
Neustadt
Neustadt
Over the past 40 years I’ve worked all sides of the publishing desk: journalist, ghost-writer, author, editor, publisher. I have four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication.
I co-edited with Susan MacGregor, Tesseracts Twenty-Two:…
Toronto
Toronto
Writer, editor, director, designer Reva Stern was Artistic Director of a Toronto theatre for twenty years. She has been a Guest Director in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, Pasadena CA, New York City and Los Angeles and has collaborated with such notables as Isaac Bashevis Singer…
Grand Valley
Campbell River
Campbell River
Diana Stevan likes to joke she’s a Jill of all trades as she’s worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Adrienne Stevenson, a retired forensic toxicologist, lives in Ottawa, Canada, on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People. Adrienne writes in many genres. Her poetry and stories have appeared in many print and online journals and anthologies in…
Ottawa
Vaughan
Vaughan
Wendi Stewart writes a weekly column for the Fort Frances Times (Wendi With An Eye), writing personal essays where she chews on life’s questions and absurdities. She blogs at wendistewart.wordpress.com. Her first novel, Meadowlark, was published by NeWest Press, shortlisted for…
Toronto
South Bruce Peninsula
South Bruce Peninsula
Donna Stewart was born in Wiarton, Ontario on the Bruce Peninsula. She holds a B.A. from the University of Waterloo, a Bachelor of Education from The University of Western Ontario, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in technology-based learning from Athabasca University. Donna…
