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Salt Spring Island
Mona Fertig is a BC poet, publisher, editor and founder of The Literary Storefront, Canada’s first literary centre (1978-1985) and Mother Tongue Publishing. She grew up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano and Burnaby and went to the Vancouver School of Art. She has been writing poetry…
Salt Spring Island
Mona
Fertig
Toronto
Joy Fielding was born and in Toronto, Canada and went to the University of Toronto, where she received her B.A. after majoring in English, and appearing in the well-received student movie, "Winter Kept Us Warm." Acting ambitions subsequently took her to Hollywood where she got a…
Toronto
Joy
Fielding
Souris
Carolyn Finch is a lover of literature and life! As a red seal, blue collar tradeswoman, she spent 28 years standing behind a hairstylists cutting chair. At forty years of age, it was time to set down her scissors for a few days a week and explore an old passion- writing!…
Souris
Carolyn
Finch
Gibsons
Claire Finlayson is a writer from Gibsons, BC. For ten years she served on the board of directors of the Sunshine Coast's Festival of the Written Arts, the last three years as vice president. Her first book, Dispatches from Ray's Planet: A Journey through Autism, published by…
Gibsons
Claire
Finlayson
Whitehorse, Yukon
YUKON STORY LAUREATE.
Growing up in Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, I worked as a journalist, sewer rat, truck driver, heavy equipment operator, expediter, prospector, public relations director, motion picture theatre owner, financial advisor and in 2009, retired to become a…
Whitehorse, Yukon
John
Firth
Toronto
Christine Fischer Guy is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has lived and worked in London, England. Her debut novel, The Umbrella Mender, appeared in 2014. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Five Dials, Descant, Prairie Fire, The Queen's Quarterly, The…
Toronto
Christine
Fischer Guy
Paris
Born and raised in Florida, ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. She has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She performed her latest…
Paris
Alison
Fishburn
Centre Wellington
After two decades in media Colleen now writes copy for the financial services industry. In 2023, Colleen completed the Humber Creative Writing graduate program where she was also the recipient of the Harlequin Diverse Voices Scholarship. In 2024, she launched Elora Writing…
Centre Wellington
Colleen
Fisher Tully
Orfordville and Halifax
Lisa Fishman’s seventh collection of poetry, Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, was recently released on Wave Books (2020) and her debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride, is forthcoming on Gaspereau Press (2022). She is also the author of 24 Pages and other poems (…
Orfordville and Halifax
Lisa
Fishman
Belledune
Andy Flanagan wrote and published a historical non-fiction titled, THE ENDLESS BATTLE in conjunction with the University of New Brunswick military heritage program and Goose-lane Editions. This book was nominated for a 2018 Democracy Historical writing award. Andy was e-…
Belledune
Andy
Flanagan
St. John's
Susan Flanagan has worked as a freelance journalist (BJ, King’s College, NS, 1991) in St. John’s, NL for more than 30 years.
In 2021 Susan had two novels published: Supermarket Baby, winner of the 2019 Percy Janes First Novel Award (Flanker Press, February 3, 2021) and The…
St. John's
Susan
Flanagan
Montreal
Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Times bestselling The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted…
Montreal
Judith
Flanders
Whitehorse
Patti Flather is an award-winning Yukon playwright, theatre artist and writer. Patti’s first fiction collection is Such A Lovely Afternoon (Inanna Publications). Her play Paradise premiered in the Yukon, toured nationally, and is published (Playwrights Canada Press). Directed by…
Whitehorse
/Patti
Flather
Vancouver, Kelowna
Anne Fleming grew up in Toronto, parked in Kitchener for a while, moved to Vancouver and now divides her time between East Van and Kelowna. She is the author of four books, most recently the typo-titled poemw, her first book of poems, as well as the story collection, Gay Dwarves…
Vancouver, Kelowna
Anne
Fleming
Vancouver
You Are Here: Selected Stories appeared from Biblioasis in October 2022, and includes an introduction written by Rebecca Rosenblum. The book features 20 stories from my previously published books, and I'm happy to see it in print.
Vancouver
Cynthia
Flood
Invermere
Elinor Florence grew up on a Saskatchewan farm, earned her Journalism degree at Carleton University, and had a long career writing for newspapers and magazines, including Reader’s Digest Canada, before turning to fiction. Her first novel Bird’s Eye View, about a Canadian woman…
Invermere
Elinor
Florence
Melanie Florence is an Aboriginal writer based in Toronto. She has seen her byline on everything from online dating advice for men to a piece about not so perfect parenting, from an interview with Meg Cabot to a review of an award-winning Aboriginal dance performance. Her…
Melanie
Florence
Toronto
Vancouver
Lee Edward Födi is an author, illustrator, and specialized arts educator—or, as he likes to think of himself, a daydreaming expert.
Födi is an engaging public speaker, specializing in presentations and workshops for elementary-aged children. He has taught programs for kids in…
Vancouver
Lee Edward
Födi
St John's
Beth Follett is the founder and publisher of Pedlar Press, a Canadian literary house. Her first novel, Tell It Slant (Coach House Books, 2001), a retelling of Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood, met with critical acclaim. Her newest novel, Instructor, is published by Breakwater…
St John's
Beth
Follett
