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Vancouver
Andrea Bishop lives in Vancouver, Canada. Her flash and short pieces appear in Grain, trampset, Orca, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. She’s an alumna of a Tin House Workshop. Andrea recently completed a collection of short stories with support from the Canada Council for the Arts…
Vancouver
Andrea
Bishop
Edmonton
Halifax
Bruce Bishop's published work has appeared in over 100 print and online publications in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Brazil since the mid-1990s. He contributed to several guidebook publishers including Fodor’s and DK Eyewitness Guides, and was…
Halifax
Bruce
Bishop
Port Perry
Lucy E.M. Black studied creative writing at the undergraduate level and later earned an M.A. in nineteenth-century British fiction. She has also studied at the Sage Hill School of Writing, the Humber College School of Writing, and the University of Toronto Creative Writing…
Port Perry
Lucy
Black
Gatineau
Robin Blackburn McBride is a Canadian novelist, poet and coach. For over twenty years she worked as a teacher in Toronto, and before that, as an actress. Robin holds degrees in English, Drama and Education from the University of Toronto. Her first novel, The Shining Fragments,…
Gatineau
Robin
Blackburn McBride
Richmond Hill
Yvonne Blackwood is an African-Canadian author of four adult non-fiction books, Into Africa, A Personal Journey, Will That Be Cash or Cuffs? Into Africa the Return, and College Life of a Retired Senior. She has also published three children’s picture books in The Nosey Charlie…
Richmond Hill
Yvonne
Blackwood
I'm an Anishinaabe-kwe from Treaty 9 who writes stories about Indigenous and Queer characters (preferably both at the same time). Currentlym I have a traditionally published fantasy romance series The Halfling Saga and will be releasing self-published sapphic romances later in…
Melissa
Blair
Toronto
Born on a tiny island stuck to the south of England, Kate Blair has worked as a museum curator, a clown and a cook on a ship on the Great Barrier Reef. She's worked at a theme park on the Jersey Shore and made furniture for the Sydney Olympic Village. Now a young adult author…
Toronto
Kate
Blair
Born in Quebec City in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais has been a dominant figure in her country's literary landscape for more than 25 years. At twenty, she published her first novel, La Belle Bête, translated as Mad Shadows. In it, she analyzes with fierce lucidity the psychological…
Marie-Claire
Blais
Toronto
A two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013), Becky Blake’s stories and essays have appeared in publications across Canada. Her first novel, Proof I Was Here, was published by Wolsak & Wynn’s Buckrider Books imprint in May…
Toronto
Becky
Blake
Toronto
Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. Her collection of essays Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas will be published in June 2024 by…
Toronto
Gloria
Blizzard
Edmonton
Astrid Blodgett's second collection of stories, This is How You Start to Disappear, is forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press. Astrid's first collection of stories, You Haven't Changed a Bit, was long-listed for a ReLit Award in 2014 and was a runner up for the 2013…
Edmonton
Astrid
Blodgett
Victoria
Yvonne Blomer (she/her) is an award-winning travel writer and poet who most recently won the Exile Editions Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. The Last Show on Earth is forthcoming with Caitlin Press in 2022 along with a re-issue of her poetry collection The Book of Places…
Victoria
Yvonne
Blomer
Toronto
Ronna Bloom is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent book, The More (Pedlar Press, 2017) was longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and translated into Bangla, Chinese and Spanish…
Toronto
Ronna
Bloom
Toronto
Toronto
Arthur Boers (arthurboers.com) is an Anglican priest and a Benedictine Oblate. His degrees include: MFA (Seattle Pacific), B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, M.A. in Peace Studies from Associated Menonite Biblical Seminary, M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, M…
Toronto
Arthur
Boers
Guelph, ON
Born in Houston, Texas, Jo Ellen Bogart attended the University of Texas in Austin, earning degrees in education and psychology. She came to Canada in 1975 and settled in Guelph, where she still lives. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.--having attained her Canadian…
Guelph, ON
Jo Ellen
Bogart
Victoria
Dennis E Bolen has led the literary life since his late teens, experimenting with poetry in high school before taking two university degrees in creative writing. He published seven books of fiction with three different publishers over a career that saw him work as editor for sub…
Victoria
Dennis E
Bolen
Rosemarie Boll has been practicing family law for over 20 years. She has written extensively on the legal system and how it affects families. She is committed to educating the public about the complex network of laws which govern our everyday lives, and explaining what the…
Rosemarie
Boll
