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Greg Buium has spent more than two decades working as a journalist in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
His articles on culture have appeared in the Believer, the Walrus, CBC.ca, and most of Canada’s metropolitan dailies, including the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun.
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Vancouver
Greg
Buium
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Burnt Church
Sandra Bunting writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction and journalistic articles. She grew up on the east coast of Canada and was awarded a BA in Radio and Television Arts from the Metropolitan Toronto University and an MA in Writing from NUI, Galway, Ireland. After working for CBC…
Burnt Church
Sandra
Bunting
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Toronto
Ella Burakowski was born to Holocaust survivors, Shoshana Gold and Fishl Burakowski, who met after the war in Foehrenwald, a displaced person's camp in Germany. Together they smuggled on an Aliyah Bet ship to make a new life for themselves in Israel. Ella and her older sister…
Toronto
Ella
Burakowski
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Toronto
Aileen Burford-Mason is a Canadian biochemist, immunologist, and author. Born in the UK she grew up in Ireland. After completing a B.Sc. in biology and biochemistry at University College Dublin, she later completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK…
Toronto
Aileen
Burford-Mason
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Princeton
Finnian Burnett is a writer whose work explores the intersections of the human body, mental health, and gender identity. They are a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts grant, a finalist in the 2023 CBC nonfiction prize, and a 2024 Pushcart nominee.
Their work appears…
Princeton
Finnian
Burnett
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Windsor, ON
Bradd Burningham grew up in Essex, Ontario, and has lived in Windsor, Cambridge, Toronto, Ottawa, London, Saskatoon, and Sackville (New Brunswick). He studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Windsor (B.A, M.A), and the University of Western Ontario (M.L.S.). He…
Windsor, ON
Bradd
Burningham
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Ottawa
Kevin Burns is an Ottawa-based writer, editor, and researcher with a focus on broad cultural and social issues. He has seen some 300 books make their way into print in the commercial and academic publishing worlds. He has an extensive background in publishing, having developed…
Ottawa
Kevin
Burns
Sointula
Bruce Burrows started his fishing career underwater, abalone diving. Fortunately it didn’t end there. His diving career took him to Scotland where he worked in the North Sea oilfield. After 6 years he had accumulated 286 days living in a decompression chamber. “One more season…
Sointula
Bruce
Burrows
Edmonton
Jeff Bursey was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. His plays have been performed in St. John's and Charlottetown, his fiction has appeared online and in print, and his scholarly articles and literary criticism have been published in…
Edmonton
Jeff
Bursey
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Peterborough
Varda Burstyn's career as a writer of non-fiction and as an independent scholar began in the early 1980s, after which her work appeared in numerous magazines, including Saturday Night and Mother Jones, in documentary films, in multiple series for CBC's national documentary…
Peterborough
Varda
Burstyn
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North Vancouver
Brian completed a B.A. (Sociology) at Queen's University, an M.A. (Criminology) at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. (Sociology) at the University of British Columbia. He had a full-time appointment for 30 years in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and…
North Vancouver
Dr. Brian Eric
Burtch
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Vancouver
A resident of Vancouver, Julie Burtinshaw is an award-winning author of seven novels for young adults. A graduate of SFU’s Writers Studio, Julie has served as a judge for the BC Book Awards, Red Cedar Awards, Illinois Women's Press Association Communications.
Hangman: The True…
Vancouver
Julie
Burtinshaw
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Hornby Island
My debut novel Ivy’s Tree was published by Thistledown Press in September 2020.
I completed a second draft of Millicent, the fictionalised account of my great-great-grandmother’s life in London’s East End in the 1850s. My work with this manuscript earned me a Letter of…
Hornby Island
Wendy
Burton
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Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe and Mail Best Book and Hamilton Reads 2021 Selection; the Canada Reads long-listed Accusation (2013); the Trillium Award short-listed Claire’s Head (2004), and the national bestselling The Rules…
Catherine
Bush
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Vancouver
Aaron Bushkowsky A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright, film-writer, poet, novelist, and educator. His plays have been produced across Canada and have received 9 Jessie Richardson Theatre (Vancouver Theatre awards) nominations over the last 14 years…
Vancouver
Aaron
Bushkowsky
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Chapleau
Pam Bustin was born in Regina SK and raised in a host of small towns across the prairies. She currently lives MOSTLY in Chapleau Ontario with a lovely man and 10,001 books - though she still tends to wander. Pam’s play Saddles in the Rain had its world premiere at 25th Street…
Chapleau
Pam
Bustin
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Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, she has spent the last thirty years on a ranch in the southwest near the Saskatchewan-Montana border. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, but didn't begin writing until she was 38, publishing her first book at 44. She is married to…
Sharon
Butala
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Alan D. Butcher was born in Vancouver, B.C. and has been writing all his life. "I wasn't much good at anything else--and my former employers will agree with me on that." He has written advertising copy, worked in the Canadian arctic, and wrote and produced the Chase Almanac for…
Alan
Butcher
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Lethbridge
Paul Butler is the author of ten novels and one non-fiction book. His most recent novel, Mina’s Child, was published in 2020 by Inanna Publications (Toronto). Mina’s Child imagines a second generation springing from the ‘heroes’ of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and questions the notion…
Lethbridge
Paul
Butler
Barrhead County
Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her) is an award-winning poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the…
Barrhead County
Jenna
Butler
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St. John's
Michelle Butler Hallett is a disabled person and history nerd who writes fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Novels: Constant Nobody, winner of the 2022 Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction, This Marlowe, deluded your sailors, Sky Waves, and Double-blind. Story…
St. John's
Michelle
Butler Hallett
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