Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
Vancouver
Vancouver
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis poet, writer, and editor born on Treaty 3 (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 (Prince Albert, SK), and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, cka Vancouver.
Molly has a BA…
Toronto
Toronto
Cathy Crowe is a longtime Canadian Street Nurse, educator, social justice activist, and filmmaker specializing in advocacy on homelessness in Canada. She is the author of Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out (Between the Lines) and A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of…
Waterloo
Waterloo
Kevin Crowley is an award-winning journalist and the author of the satirical novel, Sir Middling U. He spent nearly 20 years in journalism, writing for daily newspapers and magazines and contributing to CBC Radio. His work has won a number of awards, including a Michener Award…
Toronto
Toronto
Bruce grew up along the Corso Italia neighbourhood in Toronto, the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. An alumnus of North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where he found a piqued interest in Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and …
Cree, Metis, Settler
Victoria
Victoria
Michael Scott Curnes is an award-winning American Canadian author. To Pay Paul is his fifth fiction novel to be published and is considered a sequel to his Green Book Award-winning novel, For the Love of Mother (2011). Written as an ode to the countless cancer victims and…
Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw
Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer from Moose Jaw who taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School of th Arts and at The Sage Hill Writing Experience. The author of 13 books, he feels blessed to have served two terms as Saskatchewan Poet Laureate and to have delivered the…
Brampton
New Westminster
New Westminster
Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023), The Inquisition Yours (…
Toronto
Montreal
Montreal
Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,…
Montreal
Montreal
I am a writer, literary translator, and journalist. I am a co-founder and publisher of Accenti, an English-language cultural magazine, and of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works that celebrate cultural diversity. As a photojournalist for an international NGO…
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…
