Trained as a journalist, Heather Conn has worked as a professional writer for 40+ years, based in the Vancouver, BC region. She has published in 50+ magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Georgia Straight, and Canadian Geographic…

Jan Conn was born in Asbestos Quebec and escaped to Montreal at 17. She completed a B.Sc. (cum laude) at Concordia University, a M.Sc. at Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She did postdoctoral research in Caracas, Venezuela and in Gainesville…

Author of eleven books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, Karen Connelly is a writer, educator and licensed psychotherapist in private practice. She has won national and international prizes for her books, which are published in a dozen countries. In her online…

Kevin Connery is a Writer and Illustrator.  Born in Scarborough, Connery has a BA from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He has worked as a freelance writer (in fiction, journalism, and creative nonfiction) and as an editor, and…

Vera is a poet and fiction writer with an interest in other genres as well. Enlightened by Defilement, An Almost Memoir in haibun was released April 2023 by Latitude 46 Publishing. During the two years of the Covid lockdown, Vera served as Greater Sudbury's sixth poet laureate.…

Gregory Cook was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and has worked variously as a newspaper reporter, university lecturer, freelance journalist and executive director of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. He served as writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo (1990-92)…

Stephanie is an award-nominated writer based out of Toronto, Canada. Some of her graphic novels include ParaNorthern, Oh My Gods, and The Racc Pack. She’s an avid reader, gamer, movie watcher, and pun connoisseur. She can often be found curled up with her snuggly cat…that she…

Cheryl was born in Toronto and now lives in Muskoka with her husband, Randy, and her two sons, Evan and Brodie. She hold degrees in English and education from Queen's University, and her articles and stories have appeared in numerous Canadian periodicals. Cheryl makes her book…

Jane Cooper is a professional researcher and writer whose interests span from local history to international politics. For more than twenty-five years, she has been bringing to life stories from the past and present, drawing on extensive research and hands-on experience in…

Douglas Anthony Cooper’s first novel, Amnesia (Random House) was a national bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His most recent novel, The Strangler Fig, will be appearing in Italian translation (as…

John Corcelli was born and raised in Toronto. He’s a writer, broadcaster, musician and golfer. He considers music his “religion”, with a love for all its forms especially Jazz. He plays clarinet and soprano sax (but not at the same time.) He graduated from Ryerson University in…

Mary Corkery's first poetry collection, Simultaneous Windows, was published by Inanna in 2017. Her career has included various roles in social justice and international development organizations, most recently KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives where she was…

Claudia Cornwall is a freelance writer, the author of six books.  She has also been published in many Canadian magazines and newspapers including The Globe & Mail, Reader's Digest, (the Canadian, the international and the Mainland China editions), BC Business, as well as the…

John Corr (PhD) writes Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction. He is a professor in the Dept. of Communication and Global Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. John has conducted writing workshops in elementary schools, high schools, undergraduate courses, and graduate…

Donna Costa writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, YA fiction, Breathing With Trees, was released in 2020. Her CNF has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Nurture Literary, and Prairie Fire (forthcoming). She acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for…

Nella Cotrupi is an Italian-born Canadian writer, literary critic, scholar, and translator with a life-long interest in the literary and visual arts. Her work includes fiction, poetry, literary translation and non-fiction ( criticism, reviews, essays, translations).  

Arlene Cotter is an award-winning designer and strategist whose writing furthers a conversation about life initiated with From This Moment On: A Guide for Those Recently Diagnosed With Cancer (Penguin Random House, 1999) which she wrote after surviving her own terminal diagnosis…

Charis Cotter is an award-winning children’s author who grew up beside a cemetery and has been living with ghosts ever since. She studied English in university and went to drama school in London, England. Now she lives at the end of a road by the ocean in Newfoundland, where the…

Jeff Cottrill is a fiction writer, poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has headlined in countless literary series throughout Canada, the U.K., the U.S., France and Ireland over the last twenty years. His performance style is influenced by slam…

Myrl has been a writer since she was a teenager. Her fourth book, and first novel, She Who Burns, was released in August, 2023. Kirkus Reviews named it one of the 100 Best Indie Books of 2023. Myrl's first book, The House With the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers (Anvil…

Claudia’s poems won the 2009 National Capital Region Canadian Author's Award for Poetry Accidentals (2011, Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa) won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Claudia Coutu Radmore's lyric poetry has been published in Psychopoetica, paperplates.ca and Acta Victoriana. Her…

Pauline Couture worked in daily journalism for many years in print, radio and television, in French and in English. Much of her writing life has been devoted to behind the scenes work such as research reports and regulatory submissions on large and complex issues in fields such…