Member Directory
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Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Benj Gallander ran away to work in the Middle East, France and Czechoslovakia, but amidst betwixt and between, wrote a best-seller and six plays and a poetry book which is a left-right hemisphere link-up and started the SummerWorks Theatre Festival and his works sold in Austria…
Regina
Toronto
Toronto
Loretta developed a real love for picture books while working as a storyteller, bookseller and reviewer at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore in Toronto. Very thrilled to be putting books into the hands of tomorrow’s big readers, she felt it was time to write a few stories of her own.…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, a finalist for the Montaigne…
Kingston
Kingston
Maureen Garvie grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to New Zealand in 1971. Returning to Canada in 1983, she worked as a writer and editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She has taught writing and editing at Queen's University and is an editor for the Journal of British…
Vancouver
Cowichan Bay
Cowichan Bay
Kate currently lives, and writes, on a small farm in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, with her amazing husband, two incredible sons, an adorable dog, several barn cats who don’t earn their keep, a gaggle of geese, and some decidedly ungrateful chickens … all of…
Toronto
Whitehorse
Whitehorse
Michael was born and raised in Alberta, where he received a B.A. in Archaeology in 1970. He later earned an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the State University of New York in 1988. He was curator of collections for Klondike National Historic Sites in Dawson City, Yukon,…
Toronto
Lakefield
Lakefield
Laura Rock Gaughan's first book, a short fiction collection called Motherish, was published in 2018 by Turnstone Press. Her fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. After long stints in Washington, DC and…
New Westminster
New Westminster
Daniel Gawthrop was born in Nanaimo in 1963 and grew up there. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Victoria and a Journalism diploma at the University of King’s College, Halifax, he began his career as a newspaper reporter for the Hope Standard and Vancouver…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Veronica Gaylie is a writer and teacher from Vancouver. Her literary memoir Sword Dance: A Celtic Poem was published by Exile in 2015. Veronica's creative non-fiction essays and poems have appeared in many journals, including Geist, Grain, Room and The Poetry Review, and she’s…
Thetis Island
Thetis Island
Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940. He completed a doctorate at University of Toronto and has taught at various institutions in Canada and abroad, including Western Washington University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture. Geddes has written…
Brentwood Bay
Brentwood Bay
As part of a nomadic navy family, Leslie Gentile grew up singing and telling stories in the back seat of the car with her siblings, so it was only natural for her to become a musician and author. Leslie performed with two siblings as The White Sisters, and now performs with two…
Mia Herrera’s short stories, feature articles, and reviews have appeared in various online and print publications like CG Monthly, Live in Limbo, Side Street Review, Hart House Review, and TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 7. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an…
Regina
Calgary
Calgary
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of several books, including the short story collection What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019), the novella Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020) and the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits forthcoming with Wolsak and Wynn for Spring 2024.
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