I am a Metis writer/author currently living in Kingston, Ontario. I am originally from the North Bay and Mattawa area. I am a citizen of the Metis Nation of Ontario. My ancestral territory is the Ottawa River (Kitchizibi) Valley and the Mattawa River Region. This vast, majestic…

From Chinese culture-rooted landscape to new and welcoming Canadian landscape, Anna Yin has found her home in poetry and authored five poetry collections and one collection of translations. She won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTYs, two scholarships from USA and…

I am, in alphabetical order, an editor, a mother, a poet, a retired educational assistant, a widow, and a writer. I was born and raised in Saskatchewan, albeit in many different communities. I now live in Martensville, which is a small city just north of Saskatoon. I have been…

Bery Young is the author of nine books for children including novels, biographies and picture books. Her books have been nominated for many awards and won the Chocolate Lily award, the Silver Moonbeam award and the Rainforest of Reading award.

Janine Alyson Young's debut short story collection Hideout Hotel (Caitlin Press 2014) was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, and her work has appeared in Event Magazine and the anthology Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts. She has an MFA from UBC’s Creative…

Danielle Younge-Ullman is the award-winning author of the young adult novels, HE MUST LIKE YOU, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS NOT RUINED, and LOLA CARLYLE’S 12 STEP ROMANCE, and the adult novel, FALLING UNDER. Danielle’s work has been published internationally, and nominated for…

Melissa Yi, also known as Melissa Yuan-Innes, escapes from her work as an emergency physician by writing her way into different worlds, from a Chinese Cinderella to the critically acclaimed Hope Sze medical thrillers to her bestselling memoir, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the…

Richard was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has lived in various cities in North America but settled back in his home town in 2002. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. His first book, Hiding Scars, is a historical fiction novel and was…

Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, Canada. She has published over a dozen chapbooks and books of poetry. Her work has appeared in periodicals and anthologies, her poetry set to music, recorded and broadcast. She studied at the University of Rochester, New York, and received…

Alice Zorn lives in Montreal. Her collection of short fiction, Ruins & Relics, was shortlisted for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Prize. In 2011 she published a novel, Arrhythmia, with NeWest Press. Her second novel, Five Roses, appeared with Dundurn Press in…

A full-time writer since 1981, Mark Zuehlke has emerged in recent years as one of Canada’s leading new writers of military history. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than twenty books and before turning his attention primarily to book writing in 1992 had published…