Member Directory
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Kingston
Kingston
Shelley Tanaka was born in Toronto, Ontario. She has a B.A. (Hons) in English and German from Queen's University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. For the past thirty-five years she has been the fiction editor at Groundwood Books, Canada's…
Toronto
Toronto
Damian Tarnopolsky is a writer, editor and teacher.
His most recent work, The Defence, won the 2019 Voaden Prize, leading to a staged reading directed by Craig Walker at the Kingston WritersFest. His novel Goya’s Dog, the story of a dyspeptic British painter’s unhappy World War…
Port Moody
Port Moody
Originally from Thunder Bay, ON, Margie has lived and worked in Vancouver, BC, Calgary, AB, Guelph, ON, and London, England. As a CBC Radio host and producer, she worked on regional and national programs (“Morningside”, “Sunday Morning”, “Gabereau”), wrote a syndicated parenting…
Saltspring Island
Saltspring Island
Born in 1941, Patrick Taylor was reared in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast and the Queen's University of Belfast--graduating in medicine in 1964. He trained as a gynaecologist, obtaining his speciality in 1969. Taylor emigrated…
Toronto
Whistler
Whistler
Lucien is a Canadian writer and airline pilot. The Sequence, his debut novel, follows a pair of mercenaries moving contraband for an organized crime syndicate, while asking some intriguing ethical questions regarding human genetic modification.
Lucien has lived in the UK, Hong…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Craig Terlson's fiction has appeared in Lithub, Mystery Tribune, Carve, Hobart, Smokelong Quarterly, and many other literary journals in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa. He is the author of the novels: Correction Line, Surf City Acid Drop, Fall in One Day,…
Toronto
Toronto
Beverley Terrell-Deutsch was an elementary school teacher for several years. After attaining a doctoral degree in psychology, she returned to the school system as a school psychologist, working with children and their families, and teachers, for over twenty years. She has been…
Toronto
Toronto
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four acclaimed poetry books, and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller prize and Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/America Open Book Prize,…
Toronto
Toronto
Manjushree Thapa writes fiction and nonfiction, and translates Nepali literature into English. She studied creative writing as a Fulbright fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998. She is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction set in her homeland…
Barrie
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Leona Theis's novel-in-stories, If Sylvie Had Nine Lives (Freehand 2020), offers her protagonist nine different chances to "get life right." The novel won several awards, including the High Plains Book Award. Leona's first book, Sightlines, linked stories that form a portrait of…
Pender Island
Pender Island
Joy Thierry Llewellyn is an avid long-distance hiker who loves living out of a backpack. She was a story editor and screenwriter for film and TV, and taught screenwriting in Canada, India, and China. She's been a journalist, wildlife biology technician, governess in Australia,…
Peterborough
Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park
H. Nigel Thomas emigrated from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He now lives in the Greenfield Park suburb of Montreal. He is a graduate of Concordia University, McGill University, and Universite de Montreal. Until 2006 he was professor of US literature at Universite…
