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Ottawa
Ottawa
Anne Shmelzer's Ottawa Citizen award-winning memoir, The Night My Father Came Back from the War, served as a precursor to her debut novel, A Marginally Noted Man. Anne's extensive knowledge and experience as a psychiatric nurse helped shape her characters and her…
The Honorable Michel M.J. Shore was born in Paris, France in 1948. He came to Canada at the age of three. Michel Shore studied at Collège Notre-Dame in Montreal, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (in 1969). In the summer of 1966, he was invited to study at the Université de la…
Jacques Shore is a partner in the international law firm of Gowling WLG. Mr. Shore is a published author and artist. His published works include articles on the law and public policy, op-eds, as well as three children’s books, and an illustrated book of short stories. Mr. Shore…
Toronto
Toronto
My name is Craig Shreve. I was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad, the system of routes and safe houses…
Pender Island
Pender Island
Sandy Shreve has written, edited and/or co-edited eight books and four chapbooks. Her most recent poetry collection is Waiting for the Albatross (Oolichan Books, 2015). Her previous books include Suddenly, So Much (Exile Editions, 2005) and In Fine Form, 2nd edition - A…
North Saanich
North Saanich
Meenal Shrivastava lives on the unceded Coast Salish territory, on an (almost) acreage in North Saanich. She is a writer of non-fiction and a professor of political economy and global studies at Athabasca University. Spanning three countries, her academic journey has made her…
Oakville
Oakville
Jade Shyback spent her childhood in Western Canada: Red Deer, Nanaimo, and Innisfail. She obtained a BA in English Literature from the University of Calgary in 1996, before relocating to Southern Ontario and eventually Abu Dhabi. A former financial regulator in the United Arab…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa writer, journalist and editor Barbara Sibbald has published an award-winning collection of short stories, two print novels and an online novel. Her collection of short fiction, The Museum of Possibilities (The Porcupines Quill, 2017), won gold in the Foreword Indies…
Claire Sicherman is the author of Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation. Her writing has been published in anthologies and journals including Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces, Don’t Ask: What Families Hide, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of…
Colborne
Colborne
Felicity Sidnell Reid’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies and on line journals. Her historical novel, Alone: A Winter in the Woods (Hidden Brook Press) set 1796 takes place on the shores of Presqu’ile bay. She is a contributor to and one of the…
Maggie Siggins is a journalist, author of nine books, and a television producer/writer. Based in Regina, she is currently the vice-president, creative of 4 Square Productions, an innovative independent production house. She has written/produced over twenty documentaries as well…
Saltspring Island
Toronto
Toronto
  Publications: The Death of Tony, nonfiction, Stonehewer Books, 2024 Some Unfinished Business, Cormorant Books, 2023 Provisionally Yours, Biblioasis, 2019. The Barefoot Bingo Caller. ECW, 2017 Underground. Thomas Allen, 2011 Woman in Bronze. Toronto: Random House…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Kumudini Nicholas (pen name: R. E. Siliente) was born in Sri Lanka, and she currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  She graduated from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka with an B. Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry, and landed in Nova Scotia in 1980 as the spouse of a…
Toronto
Toronto
I’m a children’s author and with three books available and several more on the way. My middle grade novel, Just Watch Me, is a laugh-out-loud book about social media and video games (Common Deer Press, October 2020). It also deals with serious topics like divorce and bullying.…
St. Catharines
Eve
St. Catharines
National bestselling author Eve Silver writes for both adults and teens. She has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Eve's work won the OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award (2015), was shortlisted for the…
Regina
Regina
Judith Silverthorne has authored over a dozen books for publication, most of which are children's literary novels, while two are adult non-fiction, one is a picture book and another a YA novel. All feature Saskatchewan in some way, where she's lived most of her life in…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Monica Silvie practiced law for over fifteen years before returning to her earliest passion, writing for children. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Monica has an Advanced…
Charlottetown
Charlottetown
Bren Simmers is the author of four books of poetry, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn, 2010). Her first…
D'Escousse
D'Escousse
Marjorie Simmins is the author of four non-fiction books: Coastal Lives (2014); Year of the Horse (2016); Memoir: Conversations and Craft (2020); and Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable (2021). Simmins began her career as a freelance journalist…
Toronto
Toronto
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…