Member Directory
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Montreal
Montreal
Padma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and others. She has published short fiction, essays and translations in Granta, BRICK, and elsewhere. Full-length…
Waterloo
Waterloo
JESSICA VITALIS is an award-winning, Columbia MBA-wielding middle grade author with Greenwillow/HarperCollins. Her books have been translated into three languages, received multiple starred reviews, been designated as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and appeared…
Canmore
Canmore
Since his 1987 graduation from New York University's School of Journalism (Magna Cum Laude), Michael Vlessides has made a career of creating tight, refreshing, and readable copy for a wide range of audiences and businesses. From best-sellers to annual reports, anesthesiology to…
Vancouver
Edmonton
Edmonton
Dr. Renée von Paschen, (M.A.): Born in Canada, at home in North America and Europe, Renée is a writer, poet, literary translator, editor and screenwriter. PhD in Theater, Film & Media, Univ. of Vienna; M.A. in Gender Studies. Literary Translator's Fellowship at International…
Crofton
Crofton
Giselle Vriesen (she/they) is an author living on Halalt First Nations land on Vancouver Island Canada. Her debut YA fantasy novel Why We Play with Fire released in February of 2024 through Row House Publishing, distributed by Simon and Schuster, and she is currently working on…
Sebright
Toronto
J. A. Wainwright was born in Toronto in 1946. He has lived in England, Spain, and Greece, but mostly in Nova Scotia since 1972. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Canadian Literature from Dalhousie University where he is McCulloch Emeritus…
Calgary
Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Chelsea Wakelyn’s debut novel, What Remains of Elsie Jane, was published by the Rare Machines imprint of Dundurn Press in 2023. She holds an MA in Health Leadership and has a day job focused on strategic responses to the toxic drug crisis in B.C. Chelsea is of white settler and…
Oshawa
Montreal
Windsor
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts
Ian Wallace is one of Canada's best known and loved author-illustrators of children's books. Over a long and distinguished career he has published many picture book classics, including 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy' by Gordon Lightfoot, 'Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance', 'Boy of…
Woodbridge
Woodbridge
Author of seven books is a lover of the outdoors and enjoys canoeing, skiing and traveling. Among other things. He’s lived at various times in the Dordogne in France where his book Harvest is based.
He began writing when taking a year off between high school and university to…
Toronto
Wakefield
Toronto
Westmount
Westmount
Cecily has been writing since she was a girl. She wrote her first book when she was twelve, an 88 page novella about a girl who could fly like Peter Pan. She has loved fantasy and storytelling ever since. With a background as a screenwriter, Cecily was behind the script of the…
Toronto
Toronto
Mary W. Walters is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of non-fiction. Her most recently published novels are The Adventures of Don Valiente and the Apache Canyon Kid, a novel co-written (word by word, on the phone) with the Santa Fe author John…
