Member Directory
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North Bay
North Bay
Born in Belleville, Ontario, Barry Grills began his writing career as a journalist. He has been a reporter, editor, columnist, broadcaster, and communications consultant. He began publishing short fiction in 1973, publishing stories in such literary publications as Grain, The…
Kingsville
Kingsville
Gord is nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation, and has earned an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor (2020). He also completed his BA (Hon) from the University of Windsor in 2018, almost 30 years after he started his post secondary…
Vancouver
Montréal
Montréal
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator.
She has been a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her translations into English include works by Marie-Claire Blais,…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer and blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and broadcast journalist and as a radio host for the CBC. He has written or edited eight books. His ninth, A Communist for the RCMP, will be published in June 2024…
Montreal and Bolton-ouest
Montreal and Bolton-ouest
During an extended stay next to a jungle in Central America, Susan Grundy veered from drafting marketing reports to writing fiction. Her debut novel, Black Creek (forthcoming from Inanna Publications), was inspired by Huguenot ancestors who fled persecution in Europe to farm the…
Toronto
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach
Jacqueline Guest (CAN) is a Métis writer who lives on Vancouver Island. An award-winning author of 30 novels and short stories, her fast-paced novels cover topics from deadly video games to helpful ghosts. She has worked in Canada, United States, Tanzania and Ghana teaching…
Squamish
Squamish
Author Bio:
Born and educated in Ireland, Nora Ryan immigrated to Canada with her husband and two small children in 1981. She spent sixteen years in rural Manitoba working as an educator and health promotion specialist. In1997 she moved to the Caribbean where her husband had a…
Killaloe
Killaloe
Born in Miami, Florida in 1944, Sandra Gulland lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador for one year. Settling in Toronto, she worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with her…
Vancouver
Crescent Beach, NS
Crescent Beach, NS
Sylvia Gunnery is the author of many books for young adults and children, as well as professional books on writing curriculum. She has presented at schools, libraries, and conferences across Canada. In 2022, the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia awarded her a Queen Elizabeth…
Toronto
Kelowna
Kelowna
Meaghan Hackinen is a writer and cyclist whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and, most recently, from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Her writing explores…
whitehorse
Calgary
Clarksburg
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
I am a wildlife veterinarian, author and storyteller. I have published 6 non-fiction books about my career and the animals I have worked with in Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Mongolia. They species include giraffe (my first case), rhinos, elephants, lions, hippo, a…
