I am a kindergarten teacher from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2020 I self-published my first children's picture book, Paislee and the Talking Tree (illustrated by Hamilton artist Rae Bates and designed by Greg Smith of Blind Pig Press).  Paislee and the Talking Tree is sold through…

Michelle Sinclair worked for two decades on policy related to human rights. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland and the United States. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations from Spanish to English have appeared…

  Sonya Singh is an author, screenwriter, and storyteller living in Toronto, Canada.  Her debut novel Sari, Not Sari, had a spring release in '22, becoming an instant bestseller. Sonya recently signed a two-book deal with Double Day, with her second book slated to come out in…

Margaret Singleton:       I was born in Toronto, Ontario, and at the age of seven and a half months was adopted away and grew up on farms in Soperton, Brockville and Athens, Ontario. My early education was in rural one room schools, until grade seven and eight when I attended a…

Shanon Sinn is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat - a collection of eerie tales set in BC's Pacific Northwest. His writing and illustrations often focus on ghost…

Pat is a Metis writer and author of eight books for children. Her new picture book  -  “Lights Along the River” -  will be published by Orca Book Publishing in spring 2024. Her new memoir, “Swiftly Flowing Waters” will also be released by Plumleaf Press in spring 2024. Pat keeps…

Patricia Jane Skidmore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent most of her childhood growing up in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. For her, being a daughter of a child migrant was a shameful and often worrying experience. She didn’t feel that she belonged. There…

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the author of 20+ books for young people. Her scrupulously researched historical fiction and narrative non-fiction focuses on refugees and war from a young person’s perspective. Her books have won many honours, but her favourites are the provincial…

Traci Skuce is the author of the short story collection Hunger Moon, released in April 2020 by NeWest Press. Many of these stories first appeared in publications across North America, including Grain, New Ohio Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Hunger Moon was a…

Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan. He is the author of thirty one novels for young readers including The Hunchback Assignments, which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for…

I am a mother, daughter, sister, a palliative care doctor and now an author. I have always loved reading and would devour any books I could get my hands on as a teenager. When it came to school though I was a serious science nerd. As a grown-up even when I had almost no money I…

Hendrik Slegtenhorst has published fourteen books and over 140 works in established media. His interests are music, literature, and the arts; the natural environment and the urban landscape; and, the realization of community identity, aspirations, and needs. His work experience…

Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text Teaching,…

John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada.  He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines.  John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column for a group of…

Ron Smith is the author and editor of numerous books, including four books of poetry, the award-winning Elf the Eagle and The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke. An excerpt from the latter book was translated into eighteen languages by Reader’s Digest and published in over…

Sadé Smith is a Canadian children’s book author of GRANNY'S KITCHEN (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2022) which is nominated for the Blue Spruce Award for the 2023 Forest of Reading and shortlisted for the 2023 Crystal Kite Award. She is of Jamaican descent and her books often…