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Hoffmann, Marion
Hohn, Nadia
Toronto
Nadia
Hohn
Toronto
Nadia
Canadian-born of Jamaican immigrant parents, Nadia L. Hohn is an award-winning author, educator, and diverse children's literature advocate and “artivist”.  Nadia L. Hohn is the author of Malaika’s Costume (2016) which was the 2021 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.  Her…
Holdstock, Pauline
Pauline
Holdstock
Pauline Holdstock writes literary fiction, essays and poetry. Her books have been published in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Australia, Brazil and Portugal as well as in Canada, where her work has been featured on CBC radio and named a finalist for the Giller prize. Her fiction…
Holeman, Linda
Toronto
Linda
Holeman
Toronto
Linda received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a BEd in Special Education and MEd in Educational Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has crossed genres with her work, publishing both short story collections and novels for young adults and adults…
Hollingshead, Greg
Toronto
Greg
Hollingshead
Toronto
Born in Toronto and educated in Toronto and London, Greg has published four story collections and three novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and former director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. He has won the Governor General's Award for…
Holt, Michael
Holz, Cynthia
Cynthia
Holz
Cynthia Holz is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in New York City and came to Toronto in 1976 as a Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. Her fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and…
Homel, David
Montreal
David
Homel
Montreal
David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952 of East European stock. He left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and lived in Europe and Toronto before moving to Montreal around 1980. He was educated in three countries and worked at a variety of industrial jobs before…
Honda, Keiko
Vancouver
Keiko
Honda
Vancouver
Keiko Honda is a scientist, writer, community organizer and painter. She holds a PhD in international community health from New York University, but when she suddenly contracted a rare autoimmune disease that confined her to a wheelchair for life, she had to leave her career in…
Honeybourn, Jennifer
Stratford
Jennifer
Honeybourn
Stratford
Jennifer Honeybourn is a young adult and middle grade author who also writes under the pseudonym J.E. Hailstone. She's a fan of British accents, Broadway musicals, and epic, happily-ever-after love stories. If she could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, she’d have high tea…
Hong, C.J.
Ottawa
C.J.
Hong
Ottawa
Children's writer with a passion for promoting literacy.
Hoogland, Cornelia
Hornby Island
Cornelia
Hoogland
Hornby Island
Cornelia Hoogland is 2023 winner of the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award given by the League of Canadian Poets. Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award.  Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011)…
Hope, Alyson
Montreal
Alyson
Hope
Montreal
Alyson Hope is a writer who currently lives in Montreal, the island of Tiohtià:ke – unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. In 2014, Hope received her Master’s Degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Based largely on ecocritical theory, her thesis…
Hoque, shahanaz
Mississauga
shahanaz
Hoque
Mississauga
shahanaz
   Bio Shahanaz is a Canadian Author, teacher and presenter  who is also member of TWUC and League of Canadian poets.  She came from Bangladesh as a young woman. She believes: "human setting" is like  seasonal plant,  very…
Horlick, Leah
Saskatoon
Leah
Horlick
Saskatoon
​Leah Horlick is the 2022-2023 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distnguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. A writer and poet, her most recent collection, "Moldovan Hotel," was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut book…
Hosein, Jennifer
Toronto
Jennifer
Hosein
Toronto
Jennifer
Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, A Map of Rain Days, published by Guernica Editions in 2020, was longlisted for the League…
Hossack, Darcie Friesen
House, Yolande
House, Oriah
Toronto
Oriah
House
Toronto
The focus of Oriah’s life and work has been an on-going inquiry into the nature of the sacred and the mystery of how we co-create meaning from the stories of our lives and communities. Raised in a small town in Northern Ontario, she was at home in the wilderness and drawn to the…
Housty, Jess
Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella
Jess
Housty
Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella
Jess H̓áust̓i is a parent, writer, and land-based educator from the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation in Bella Bella. They live and work in their unceded ancestral homelands where they focus their practice on community building, food sovereignty, and Indigenous culture and language…
Howald, Meg
London
Meg
Howald
London
As a novelist and script writer writer, Meg balances her writing time with teaching creative writing at Fanshawe College (London, Ontario). The new year has bought a contract from World Castle Publishing for a new mystery thriller.  Updates to follow before publication.
Howard, Leslie
Penticton
Howard, Barb
Calgary
Barb
Howard
Calgary
Barb
Barb Howard's most recent book, Happy Sands, was shortlisted by the Book Publisher's Association of Alberta for Trade Fiction Book of the Year. Her short story collection Western Taxidermy won the Canadian Authors' Association 2012 Exporting Alberta Award and was a finalist at…
Howard, Sean
Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sean
Howard
Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sean Howard is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Trinity: Tribute Sequences for Robert Graves (Gaspereau Press, 2022) and Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems, Then as Now (Gaspereau Press, 2021). His poetry as been widely published in Canada, as well as the US, UK and…
Howell, Michael J.
Orillia
Michael J.
Howell
Orillia
Michael Howell was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1957. He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and earned a Bachelor of Education at the University of Calgary. As a high school teacher he is known for his creative leadership programs. In 1998 his grade 9 Autonomous…