Member Directory
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MONTREAL
MONTREAL
Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years…
Calgary
Calgary
paulo da costa was born in Luanda, Angola and raised in Portugal. He is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. paulo is twice the recipient of the 2023 and 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean…
Fort Erie
Fort Erie
Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full length…
Vancouver
Vancouver
I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, April 2019), inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter. The story is an on-the-road adventure that covers the terrain of love, race and science …
Wasaga
Wasaga
Tasneem has a degree in Drawing and Painting and a minor in English from OCAD University, but she learned most of what she knows from reading children’s books with her daughter. Her books are Amazon bestsellers in categories such as Children’s Inspirational & Personal Growth…
Ottawa
Victoria
Toronto/gta
Toronto/gta
Arundati Dandapani, MLitt, CAIP, CIPP/C, is an award winning researcher and the founder of Generation1.ca, a platform and community that places Canada's immigrant newcomers, legal cannabis and non-profit associations at the forefront of data and insights innovation using its…
Toronto
Toronto
Jasveer is an author, podcast host, behavioural trainer and award-winning health and safety professional. He is currently based in Canada. He was part of the team of trainers that trained 22,000 volunteers for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. He loves the outdoors and…
Toronto
Toronto
Helen Dantas is a Brazilian Canadian novelist, public speaker, and workshop designer and facilitator. She was born to a middle-class family in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in southeast Brazil.
Dantas completed her studies in 1986, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in…
Rossland
Rossland
Véronique Darwin writes fiction and essays. She has stories in PRISM International and The Quarantine Review, and forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Her humour pieces appear in Geist, and literary essays and reviews in carte blanche, Porter House Review, Literary…
East York
Toronto
Toronto
Annahid is author of non-fiction books Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (Dundurn 2023) and Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Reconciliation. A leading voice on issues of racism, inclusion and belonging, Annahid is also Co-founder of Anima…
Toronto
GUELPH
Edmonton
Fredericton
Fredericton
Lynn writes poems, essays, reviews, and freelance pieces, also poems and stories for children. Born in Moncton, N.B., her first paying job was working in her parent’s independent bookstore, The Bookmark. She graduated with a B.A. in English (Honours) from the University of King’…
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Lauren B. Davis’s most recent works are EVEN SO, published by Dundurn Press in 2021, and named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Quill & Quire and the Winnipeg Free Press; THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, called “timely and important” by the Toronto Star, and “…
Dartmouth
Dartmouth
Nicola Davison is a writer and photographer. Her first book, In the Wake (Vagrant Press) won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) won the 2023 Ann Connor…