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Vancouver
Doretta Lau started watching horror movies at age nine and sketch comedy at eleven, which was probably why she ended up completing an MFA in Writing at Columbia University.
She spent her days in New York working in children’s publishing and her nights watching musicians work…
Vancouver
Doretta
Lau
Orangeville
Author of The Black Cup published May 2020.
Orangeville
Alec
Lavictoire
Kingston
Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published three books of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012); Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2022) and This is About Angels, Women, and Men (2022),…
Kingston
Chantel
Lavoie
Toronto
Robin D. Laws writes novels, short stories, web serials, a comic strip, and has contributed to a variety of new media projects. He was recently named Creative Director of a new fiction imprint, Stone Skin Press. His blog is a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative…
Toronto
Robin
Laws
Victoria, BC
Julie Lawson was born in Victoria, B.C. and graduated from the University of Victoria with an Honours B.A. in French. She lived and taught in France, travelled extensively, and settled in rural East Sooke on Vancouver Island. She taught elementary school for 18 years. She now…
Victoria, BC
Julie
Lawson
Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka
Sharon Lax is a teacher and author. Her collection of short stories, Shattered Fossils (2020), is available through Guernica Editions. She is ever grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts’ assistance in developing her latest collection of poetry that explores the loss we’re…
Deux-Montagnes / Wendat, Abenakai, Anishaabeg and Kanien'kehá:ka
Sharon
Lax
VICTORIA
An award-winning writer on the history of exploration and cartography, and on history of natural history
of Vancouver Island. Resident in Victoria, B.C. For details please see website
VICTORIA
Michael
Layland
NORTH VANCOUVER
Eve Lazarus is a reporter and author and she hosts and produces the Cold Case Canada true crime podcast. Her books include the BC bestsellers Cold Case BC, Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Sweat and Fear; Cold Case Vancouver; Sensational Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for…
NORTH VANCOUVER
Eve
Lazarus
Weyburn
Anne Lazurko is an award-winning author, a no-awards farmer, and sometime poet. Her novel, What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press, 2022) received the Sask Book Awards Fiction Award and was shortlisted for both Book of the Year and the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award. Work on the…
Weyburn
Anne
Lazurko
Bowen Island
Pauline has been spinning songs and stories ever since she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Voice in 1975 from the University of Alberta. She is an award-winning screenwriter, award-winning novelist, a playwright, journalist, editor, recently published poet, and singer/…
Bowen Island
Pauline
Le Bel
Whistler
Sara Leach is the author of nine books for children, including her most recent book, Duck Days. Its companion book, Slug Days, was a finalist for a Foreword Indie Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Penguin Days was a Bank Street Best…
Whistler
Sara
Leach
Trenton, ON
Born in Toronto, Peggy Dymond Leavey received her formal education in nine different schools between Winnipeg and Fort Chambly, Quebec. Today she lives near Trenton, Ontario with her husband. She has three grown children.A love of local history led to many freelance articles,…
Trenton, ON
Peggy
Leavey
Fanny Bay
Judy LeBlanc's most recent book is a memoir, Permission to Land, published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2024. This follows The Broken Heart of Winter, her debut novel also published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2023. A collection of short stories was published by Oolichan Books,…
Fanny Bay
Judy
LeBlanc
Calgary
Amy LeBlanc is a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. Amy's debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, was published with Gordon Hill Press in March 2020 and was long listed for the 2021 ReLit Award and selected as a finalist…
Calgary
Amy
LeBlanc
Dartmouth
James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1973. At the time his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed.
Besides working as a teacher in Canada, Japan and Kuwait he enjoys travelling. He has had the good fortune to visit New…
Dartmouth
James
Leck
Calgary
Dale's two books have both been extended best sellers. His recent book, The Scenic Geology of Alberta: A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide, has topped the best seller lists across the province since it came out in April. Dale’s first book Rocks, Ridges, and Rivers: Geological…
Calgary
Dale
Leckie
Calgary
I am a writer, doctor and teacher of medicine. Throughout my career, I have split my time between North and South — practicing as a fly-in physician for isolated communities in the Canadian Arctic and working with actors, instructors, and students while designing curriculum and…
Calgary
Murray
Lee
Brossard
Day’s Lee wrote the script for her first documentary about her family’s Chinese-Canadian restaurant entitled Meet and Eat at Lee’s Garden for which she was also producer and director. It premiered on the CBC program Absolutely Canadian on November 14, 2020. The documentary is…
Brossard
Day's
Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee’s first novel, The End of East (Knopf Canada, New Face of Fiction 2007), spans almost the entire 20th century and delves into the underside of Chinese Canadian history through the eyes of the Chan family. The National Post calls The End of East “impressive, both…
Jen
Lee
Dennis Lee was born in 1939 in Toronto, where he writes full time. Known for adult and children's poetry, as a song lyricist, and a literary editor.
Dennis
Lee
