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St. Andrews
St. Andrews
Lauren Carter is the author of four books, including This Has Nothing To Do With You (Freehand Books) which Angie Abdou called "an antidote to apathy and despair" and Sarah Selecky described as "tender and devastating." Her debut novel, Swarm (Brindle & Glass), was called "…
Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area
Lucia is the author of nine books. Her work is included in the Lifespan Anthology: Loss (Bequem Publishing; Pure Slush, 2024) and People, Places, Passages: An Anthology of Canadian Literature (Longbridge Books, 2018). Her poetry has been published in Stile Magazine, Skirting…
Victoria
Victoria
Sara Cassidy's poems, short stories and essays have been published in The Malahat Review, Geist, Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, ottawater, CV2, Barren Magazine, and other literary journals.  Her hundreds of feature articles, columns and reviews have appeared in such places as…
Mono
Mono
Sean was born and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. After receiving a B.Ed. and a B.A, he taught just about everything from English and Math to Astronomy and Geography. Before settling in Ontario, Sean and his wife, Sylvia, travelled extensively throughout North America and Europe,…
Victoria / Gulf Islands
Victoria / Gulf Islands
Aidan Cassie studied animation and earned a media arts degree at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Edinburgh College of Art. While spending a year in Provence she finished her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever. Now that she's not gallivanting through…
Priceville
Priceville
I was a computer engineer (briefly), then an educator (longingly). I taught all things analytical, including physics, math, communication technology, and computer studies. After leaving the classroom for a leadership role, I ran district-wide programs for assessment, bring-your-…
London
London
Paul Cavanagh came to international attention when he was named the world’s first Lit Idol at the London Book Fair in the UK. Because he lives in London Ontario, he’s adopted the moniker Not That London Writer. He’s published three novels. They include After Helen (his award-…
Victoria
Victoria
Jane writes about women on the brink of transformation. Her debut novel, Patterson House, takes place in Toronto, the city in which she grew up. She has edited two anthologies with E. D. Morin—Impact: Women Writing After Concussion and Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction…
Toronto
Toronto
Kate Cayley has published two collection of short stories, two collections of poetry, and a young adult novel, and written a number of plays, both traditional and experimental, which have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She is a former playwright in residence at…
LONGUEUIL
CD
LONGUEUIL
ABOUT THE WRITER MIHAELA CD Mihaela CD was born in Romania. She emigrated to Canada many  years ago with her family and settled in Montreal.She always loved poetry, painting and music but she really started writing poetry books after a strong shock, when she lost her beloved…
Toronto
Toronto
Stephanie Cesca is a writer and editor living in Toronto. A former journalist in both Canada and Europe, she holds an English degree from Western University, a journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Certificate of Creative Writing from the University of…
Toronto
Sam
Toronto
Sam Chaiton is a Toronto author and playwright, a dancer and long-time social justice advocate. His first book, co-authored with Terry Swinton, was the international non-fiction bestseller Lazarus and the Hurricane, which became a basis for the Norman Jewison film The Hurricane …
Charlene Challenger is a writer and graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Acting Program. Her first novel, the young adult fantasy The Voices In Between, was published in 2014. Her second novel, The Myth In Distance, was published in 2016. Her work is featured in Stone…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Lyse Champagne's short story collection, The Light That Remains, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed LIterary Award for best first short story collection.  The stories are set in Turkey, Ukraine, China, France, Cambodia and Rwanda and chronicle the lives of six families…
Gillian Chan was born in England and came to Canada in 1990. A graduate of the University of East Anglia, she taught in high schools for ten years and wrote in secret. Her move to Canada gave her the impetus to write full-time.
Edmonton
Edmonton
Marty Chan writes books for kids and plays for adults. His hit comedy play Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl toured across Canada and finished with an Off Broadway production in 2004. His middle-grade novels have won over reluctant readers. The Mystery of the  Frozen Brains…
Vancouver
Su
Su Chang is a fiction writer with a debut novel (The Immortal Woman) forthcoming from House of Anansi in March 2025. An earlier draft was long-listed for the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest, and a semifinalist at SheWritesPress' STEP Prize. It has received praise from…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain, third coast magazine, Vallum Contemporary, Watch Your Head and more. The co-founder of Riverbed…
Toronto
Toronto
Susan Chapman has been a teacher-librarian and a primary teacher in Toronto and in Markham, Ontario. She has also taught teacher-librarians in East Africa, and worked for a summer in the library in Harrods Dept. Store in London, England. She was inspired to write TOO MUCH NOISE…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Norma Charles was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba and moved to the west coast as a young child. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, she taught school for several years, then "retired" to have four children. It was then that she began to write books for…
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…