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Peterborough
Writer. Performer. Academic. My first short story collection, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope 2015) was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Peterborough
Janette
Platana
Montreal
Monique Polak combines a busy life as a children's book author, freelance journalist and CEGEP teacher. She is the author of 29 books for young adults. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, renamed the QWF's…
Montreal
Monique
Polak
Hazelton
Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of thirteen books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada, and two novels. His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.…
Hazelton
Graeme
Pole
Montréal
Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier is originally from the North Shore region of Quebec province and lives in Montreal. She is a poet, a literacy facilitator, a cultural mediator, and an embroiderer. A feminist and socially engaged citizen, she is actively involved in projects that…
Montréal
Noémie
Pomerleau-Cloutier
Yellowknife
I stumbled into a writing career when I made a stop in Hay River, NWT, in January, 1979, during a cross-Canada hitchhiking journey. I had all my worldly possessions in a knapsack on my back, was broke and in need of a job. This materialized as soon as the publisher of the Hay…
Yellowknife
Annelies
Pool
Toronto
Anna Porter is the award-winning author of ten books, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently, Deceptions and In Other Words, How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time and Buying a Better World, George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, and five mystery novels,…
Toronto
Anna
Porter
Sidney, BC
Pamela Porter is the author of ten collections of poetry, two verse novels, and a novel and picture book for children. Her poetry collection, Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and her poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism…
Sidney, BC
Pamela
Porter
Orangeville
Author of Peggy Lee's Delicious Lips (Quattro Books), and numerous novels and books of poetry, Harry is the Poet Laureate of Dufferin County and host of The Sill podcast (www.thesillpodcast.com). He teaches creative writing in the Caledon area, and offers editing services…
Orangeville
Harry
Posner
Montréal
J. Jacob Potashnik spent much of his youth traveling and working in hotels and restaurants learning to cook but discovered he didn't have the back for it. Instead, Jacob studied communications and cinema and spent many years in film and television production. In 1996 Denys…
Montréal
Jacob
Potashnik
Kingston
Tradeswoman, artist, writer, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly two-spirited Métis, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (Spring 2022)
Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss (2009) and Why I’m…
Kingston
Lorrie
Potvin
Regina
Marie Powell's adventures in castle hopping across North Wales resulted in her young adult historical fantasy series, Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight and Water Sight (Wood Dragon, 2020). She is the author of over 40 children's books published by Scholastic Canada, Amicus,…
Regina
Marie
Powell
Kitchener
Shantell (Shan) Powell is a two-spirit author, artist, and swamp hag who grew up in an apocalyptic cult while living off the land. Shan is the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellow for 2023, a fellow for the Roots Wounds Words Winter Retreat, and is a 2022graduate of the…
Kitchener
Shantell
Powell
Ottawa and St. John's
Sara Power is a storyteller from Labrador and a former artillery officer in the Canadian Forces. Her stories have appeared in journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, and most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2024. Sara was a finalist for the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award…
Ottawa and St. John's
Sara
Power
Montreal
Melanie Power is a Montreal-based writer. She is the author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in various Canadian literary magazines, and has been shortlisted in Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, the Montreal…
Montreal
Melanie
Power
Sussex
Toronto
Vancouver, BC
Leanne Prain's fourth book The Creative Instigator's Handbook, A DIY Guide to Creating Social Change Through Art was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2022.
Leanne co-authored the subversive knitting book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti with knitting…
Vancouver, BC
Leanne
Prain
Kingston
Katherine Prairie, a geologist and IT professional, stepped away from her career to follow her passion for writing. An avid traveller with an insatiable curiosity, you never know where you’ll find her next! But most days, she’s in Kingston, Canada quietly plotting murder and…
Kingston
Katherine
Prairie
Ottawa
Rick Prashaw has had a diverse career as a journalist at the Vancouver Sun, Catholic priest in Northern Ontario, executive director of a national NGO ion healing justice, (The Church Council on Justice and Corrections in Canada), and political staff to three members of the…
Ottawa
Rick
Prashaw
