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Newmarket
Stephanie is the award-winning author of six picture books and one mid-grade novel. She reviewed children’s books for twelve years for Today’s Parent magazine (for which she got to interview the legendary Maurice Sendak!), operated an online bookstore for a few years called…
Newmarket
Stephanie Simpson
McLellan
Ottawa
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove…
Ottawa
Robert
McLennan
Thunder Bay
Heather lives with her family on an old homestead on the edge of town overlooking Lake Superior. She studied music in University and paid for her education working as a busker and jazz singer. Upon graduation she launched her first career as a singer/songwriter. It kept her on…
Thunder Bay
Heather
McLeod
Toronto
Cinders McLeod grew up in Toronto. She picked up the doublebass at eight, played in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, then moved to England where she studied art and film. After receiving her film degree in London, she became a newspaper, comic book, magazine and conference…
Toronto
Cynthia
McLeod
Sooke
Darrel J. McLeod is Nehiyaw (Cree). Darrel’s memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (Douglas & McIntyre), won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award and was a finalist for the RBC Charles Taylor Prize. The sequel, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity, was released in March…
Sooke
Darrel
McLeod
Ottawa
"Susan McMaster's purview is the world entire, with all its mystery, heartbreak and magic" (Carolyn Smart, editor McGill-Queen's). Her poetry has been described as "muscular, candid, intimate yet universal... with an open, seemingly effortless control of her craft" (Heather…
Ottawa
Susan
McMaster
Kingsville
Margaret is a multimedia creator who writes, paints, produces videos for the YouTube Channel: A Sweet Enough Life, and designs journals for Mansbridge Dunn Publishers. This is what she calls retirement after working in education, business, and library services. She lives in…
Kingsville
Margaret J.
McMaster
Amber McMillan is the author of This Is a Stickup (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022), The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions, 2021), The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (Nightwood Editions, 2016), and We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). Her work has won a Penguin…
Amber
McMillan
Burlington, ON
Concordia graduate and former creative writing instructor at Sheridan College and Living Arts Centre, Sylvia McNicoll has written 40 internationally published novels for young audiences and given writing workshops and talks across Canada as well as in South Korea and Colombia.…
Burlington, ON
Sylvia
McNicoll
Waterloo
David McPherson is the author of 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts (2023); Massey Hall (2021) and the acclaimed Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History (2017). He is a frequent contributor to GRAMMY.com, the Globe and Mail, and SOCAN’s Words and Music. He lives in…
Waterloo
David
McPherson
George McWhirter was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1939 and came to Canada via Spain in 1966. He taught high school in Port Alberni before going to UBC in 1968. He retired from the Creative Writing Department as a Professor Emeritus in 2005 to write and translate full-…
George
McWhirter
Martensville
Sally Meadows is an award-winning author, speaker, and singer/songwriter who currently resides in Saskatchewan. Her former work as a scientist, science entertainer, science outreach educator, and teacher has given her a rich background to draw from for her five children's books…
Martensville
Sally
Meadows
MISSISSAUGA
Peacock in the Snow, Anubha’s debut novel, was an instant best-seller and launched in two countries- Canada and India. In Canada, it was published by Inanna Publications in September 2018 and in India, by Amaryllis Publications in January 2019 (Harper-Collins India Distribution…
MISSISSAUGA
Anubha
Mehta
Maria Meindl’s novel, The Work, is forthcoming from Stonehouse Publishing in Fall 2019. She is the author of Outside the Box from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History.
Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many…
Maria
Meindl
Ridgetown
Toronto
Michael Melgaard is a Toronto-based author and editor. His debut story collection Pallbearing was published by House of Anansi in 2020. His stories have appeared in Joyland, Bad Nudes, Grain, and elsewhere. He has written essays and criticism for the National Post and Canadian…
Toronto
Michael
Melgaard
Enfield
I was born in Nova Scotia and spent several years travelling around the world, working in France, England, Turkey, and India, ending up in Israel where I spent ten years working as an Editorial Assistant in a publishing company. I returned to Canada to raise my children, and…
Enfield
Charlotte
Mendel
