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Manning, Joanna
Mardero, Adam
Adam
Mardero
Adam
Adam Mardero founded the blog Differently Wired in 2011 to educate and advocate for neurodiversity. He holds a Master’s Degree in History and a Bachelor of Education. Since coming to terms with being neurodivergent, he’s dedicated his life to helping further the causes of Autism…
Marin, Amela
Toronto
Amela
Marin
Toronto
Amela Marin moved to Canada from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Her writing appeared in magazines in former Yugoslavia, as well as Poetry Today, Meta, Gastronomica, Descant, PRISM International, BBC Radio and Radio Netherlands. "The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine", a memoir about…
Marjerrison, Lara
Toronto
Lara
Marjerrison
Toronto
LARA MARGARET MARJERRISON is a queer, multidisciplinary artist with a vision of impacting the world around her through the transformative power of visual art and storytelling. She spends her days writing poetry and prose, dabbling in photography, and playing with paint, bringing…
Marlatt, Daphne
Vancouver
Daphne
Marlatt
Vancouver
Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia. She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University…
Marques, Irene
Toronto
Irene
Marques
Toronto
Irene
Irene Marques is a bilingual writer (writing in English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Ryerson University in the English Department where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has also taught at the University of Toronto, York University and OCAD University in…
Marshall, Yolanda T.
Toronto
Yolanda T.
Marshall
Toronto
Yolanda T.
Yolanda T. Marshall is a Guyanese-born Canadian Author. As a cross-genre writer. The oldest of three girls, she began writing poems at the age of 8 years old. A daughter of a talented Jazz Guitarist, her lyrics manifest into poetry like a genetic code. Poems such as “…
Marshall Flaherty, Kate
Toronto
Kate
Marshall Flaherty
Toronto
Kate offers spontaneous occasional p.o.e.m.s "Poems of the Extraordinary Moment" live and on zoom. She also guides poetry workshops for all ages live and on zoom. See Kate's books, award-winning performance poetry videos, sample poems, and StillPoint Writing and Poetry…
Marshy, Leila
Montreal
Leila
Marshy
Montreal
Montrealer Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland heritage—she can tell a good joke, but it bombs. She has been a filmmaker, a baker, an app designer, a marketer, a farmer, and editor of online culture journal Rover Arts. In 2011, she founded the Friends of…
Martel, Yann
Saskatoon
Yann
Martel
Saskatoon
Yann Martel is the author of a collection of short stories, four novels, and a collection of letters to former Prime Minister Harper. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Martens, Debra
Debra
Martens
Debra Martens has published short stories in print journals such as The New Quarterly and Room, and online with Agnes and True and The Quarantine Review, among others. With years of experience as a book reviewer, and having lived in five countries abroad, she launched and…
Martin, Jason
Toronto
Jason
Martin
Toronto
JJ Martin was born in Manitoba and grew up Catholic in Ontario. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Ottawa in Anthropology of Religion. His business writing has appeared in a variety of online and print publications. His debut novel, 'Father Sweet,' was published in…
Martin, C K Kelly
Ottawa
C K Kelly
Martin
Ottawa
C K Kelly
Carolyn Martin is the author of several acclaimed novels for young people published under the names C. K. Kelly Martin and Cara Martin. Carolyn was born in Mississauga, Ontario and spent her early years devouring books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley…
Martin, Sandra
Martin, Geoff
Kitchener
Geoff
Martin
Kitchener
GEOFF MARTIN’s place-based and environmental essays have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The New Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Review of Canada,  Boulevard, and The Common, among others. He holds an M…
Martin, Timothy
Martin, Gwen
Gwen
Martin
Gwen
In her formative years, Gwen jumped freight trains, played lounge piano, and prospected for gold. She later became a freelance writer/editor, producing political speeches, grant proposals, and geoscience reports for clients across Canada. She also taught writing/editing…
Martin, D'Arcy
Martin Bouteillier, Jill
Lunenburg
Jill
Martin Bouteillier
Lunenburg
Jill Martin is the author of Return to Sable (2015), the story of her ancestors' life on Sable Island. Part love story and history of the island, readers are transported to the sand crescent in the North Atlantic. Her second work, Sable Island in Black and White, a…
Marttila, Melanie
Sudbury
Melanie
Marttila
Sudbury
Always looking up, eyes on the skies, head in the clouds, #actuallyautistic author Melanie Marttila writes poetry and speculative tales of hope in the face of adversity. She lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on…
Martz, Fraidie
Maruno, Jennifer
Burlington
Jennifer
Maruno
Burlington
Jennifer's childrens novels of historical fiction have all been nominated for several Canadian Awards. Breakwater Books released Moose's Roof, with Laurel Keating, in 2017, She celebrates While You Sleep with Miko Sato from Pajama Press in 2022.  Elementary…
Mascarenhas, Derek
Toronto
Mascayano, Ismael
Massie, Merle