Frank was born in Dublin, Ireland, and began his writing career there while in fourth grade. One day Frank’s regular teacher was ill, and his class was combined with another. In order to keep this large group of students quiet, the teacher offered a prize of sixpence for the…

Gillian O’Reilly has been interested in words ever since she ate the dust jacket off the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary when she was 11 months old.  She is the author of two non-fiction books for young readers and is currently working on fiction and picture book projects. …

I have a bachelor degree in history and English, a MA in history (both from York University, Toronto), a MFA in creative nonfiction (University of King’s College, Halifax), and MA in refugee protection and forced migration studies (University of London. I am currently a PhD…

Debbie Ridpath Ohi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Where Are My Books?, I Want To Read All The Books, and Sam & Eva (Simon & Schuster). She has helped create over 30 books, most of which are for young people. Her illustrations appear in books by Judy Blume…

Ruth Ohi is the illustrator of over 60 books, 23 of which she is also the author. Her latest are “Blanket” (Groundwood Books) and “Choose Kindness” (Scholastic Canada). Other author/illustrated books include “Scribble”, “No Help Wanted!” and the Fox and Squirrel Series (all…

Lara is a writer, researcher, and educator who grew up in a diverse, working-class neighbourhood in Toronto, close to her Japanese Canadian grandparents and often visiting her Anglo-Irish Canadian grandmother on her rural Ontario farm. Though she did not like reading as a kid,…

Debbie Okun Hill has been writing for over 35 years. She began her writing career as a journalist with a community newspaper in rural Manitoba then moved towards a profession in public relations with The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Fanshawe…

Susan Olding is the author of Big Reader: Essays, shortlisted for the CAA Fred Kerner Award and Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Alberta Book Awards, and Pathologies: A Life in Essays, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to read in a…

Peter Oliva writes mostly fiction. To support that habit, he has worked as a cook's flunkie, a Santa Claus (in Japan), and a dog trainer. In 1994 he opened a bookstore, called Pages on Kensington, where he ran a reading series and hosted 600 author events in six years before…

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Let the Empire Down ( 2016), and Hail, the Invisible Watchman (2022). Her…

George was co-founder of the magazine that is currently called “Recreational Flyer”. He was the main contributor of articles and fictional stories, as well as the Editor. While traveling on business during his career, George wrote numerous short stories and many filmscripts,…

Treena Orchard is an anthropologist, author, and activist who researches sexuality, gender, and the politics of health among marginalized groups and within the context of her own life. She is currently an Associate Professor & Undergraduate Chair in the School of Health…

Judie Oron is a Canadian/Israeli journalist who was born in Montreal, moved to Israel in 1967 and returned to Canada in 2004. She was a feature writer at ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ including a four year stint as a weekly columnist. Later, she directed the newspaper’s charitable Funds…

    James Osborne is a writer and book editor with more than 30 years experience. He is a former senior editor for a national news service and has edited books of fiction, non-fiction and memoirs. He is also a bestselling novelist and author of more than 120 short stories. His…

Richard Osler (65) is an experienced poetry writing facilitator and workshop leader who leads more than one hundred writing retreats and workshops a year in the U.S. and Canada. His poems have been published in the U.S. and Canada. His full-length collection, Hyaena Season, was…

Rosalie Osmond is a writer and lecturer who was educated at institutions in three countries (Acadia University, Bryn Mawr College, and Cambridge University) and has spent her life divided between the two sides of the Atlantic. She has taught English literature in universities in…

Christine Ottoni is a writer based in Toronto. Her short fiction has appeared in the pages of untethered, The Nashwaak Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Riddle Fence, Exile Literary Quarterly, and PRISM international. She was short-listed for PEN Canada's nomination to the…

Born in Guelph, Ontario, John has lived in Egypt, Iraq and Japan and then settled in Toronto. He has a BA and MA in English from York U., and non-credit writing courses at the jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he worked closely with Allen GInsberg and Anne…

After graduating from Theatre Performance at Humber, Lucie received top honours in English and French Literature at UofT and somehow ended up working in I.T.  She subsequently attended Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre as a screenwriting resident. Since then, Lucie has…