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Sorestad, Glen
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Glen
Sorestad
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Glen Sorestad is a well known poet who lives in Saskatoon. He is a Life Member of both the League of Canadian Poets and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. In November 2000 became the first provincially appointed Poet Laureate in Canada. Sorestad is a Member of the Order of Canada,…
Soutar-Hynes, Mary Lou
Toronto
Mary Lou
Soutar-Hynes
Toronto
Mary Lou
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Jamaica-Canadian, former nun, is an Ontario poet/educator with an interest in poetic inquiry. In 2009, she was a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. Her second collection, Travelling Light, Seraphim Editions (2006), was…
Spalding, David
David
Spalding
Born in Sheffield, England, David Spalding studied geology at the University of Sheffield and commenced a career in museum work which brought him to Alberta in 1967. Along with positions in museums, consulting work in heritage management and planning, and performance as a folk…
Spencer, Oliver Dean
Montreal
Oliver Dean
Spencer
Montreal
OLIVER DEAN SPENCER is an international crime fiction writer and artist who spends his time between Rome, Italy and Montreal, Canada. To date, he’s published four novels, three as part of the James Cartwright PI series: The Spencer Files (Book 1), Call of the Nightingale (Book…
Spenst, Kevin
Vancouver
Kevin
Spenst
Vancouver
Kevin
Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015),  Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) and A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press 2024) along with 16 chapbooks, including…
Spracklin, Floyd
Corner Brook
Floyd
Spracklin
Corner Brook
Floyd
Floyd Spracklin was born in Buchans eleven months after Newfoundland became Canada’s 10th Province,  He graduated from Memorial University of NL(1972) with a double major in English and History, and in 1995 earned an MEd from the University of New  Brunswick. He taught…
Spruit, Jennifer
Srigley, Ron
Owen Sound
Ron
Srigley
Owen Sound
Ron Srigley is a writer and academic. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, L’Obs, Canadian Dimension, Education Canada, and the MIT Technology Review, as well as in scholarly journals. He teaches philosophy and religious…
Stachniak, Eva
TORONTO
Eva
Stachniak
TORONTO
Eva
Eva Stachniak, born and raised in Wrocław, Poland, came to Canada in 1981 on scholarship to the Department of English, McGill University, in Montreal. In Poland she taught English literature at the University of Wroclaw. In Canada she has been a radio broadcaster and…
Stallworthy, Robert
Stanley, Kara
Stapley, Marissa
Toronto
Marissa
Stapley
Toronto
Marissa Stapley is the author of the critically acclaimed Globe and Mail bestselling novel Mating for Life, which was released in 2014 by Atria Books and Simon & Schuster Canada and reprinted in June 2016, and Things to Do When It's Raining, out in February 2018 with Graydon…
State, Hannah D.
Hannah D.
State
Hannah D. State is an award-winning Canadian author and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her debut novel, Journey to the Hopewell Star, was named “A Must-Have New Brunswick Book of 2020” by Atlantic Books Today, received the Literary Titan Gold Award, was a “RED RIBBON…
Staunton, Ted
Port Hope
Ted
Staunton
Port Hope
Ted Staunton has been publishing stories since writing a picture book called "Puddleman" for a university class way back in the '80s.  Since then he's written over forty books of fiction and non-fiction for readers of middle-grade, YA, picture books, beginning…
Stefanovich-Thomson, Alexis
Toronto
Alexis
Stefanovich-Thomson
Toronto
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto with his partner and their two children. His novella “The Man Who Went Down Under” won both the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023). He placed third in the Toronto…
Steinfeld, J. J.
Charlottetown
J. J.
Steinfeld
Charlottetown
J. J.
Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-four books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation and Word…
Steinmetz, Andrew
Ottawa
Andrew
Steinmetz
Ottawa
Andrew
Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He strums the guitar and pushes a pen. He writes fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry and songs. He’s been the lucky finalist of numerous prizes, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the…
Stemp, Heather
North Bay
Heather
Stemp
North Bay
Heather Stemp has a B.A. in English an M.Ed. in Special Education and 24 years of teaching experience in English, Physical Education, Cooperative Education, and Special Education at the secondary school level. For the last six years of her 30-year career, she taught Educational…
Stenson, Billie
Stenson, Fred
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Fred
Stenson
Pincher Creek/Treaty 7
Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the…
Stephens, Lorina
Neustadt
Lorina
Stephens
Neustadt
Over the past 40 years I’ve worked all sides of the publishing desk: journalist, ghost-writer, author, editor, publisher. I have four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication. I co-edited with Susan MacGregor, Tesseracts Twenty-…
Stephenson, Craig
Stern, Bonnie
Stern, Reva Leah
Toronto
Reva Leah
Stern
Toronto
Reva Leah
Writer, editor, director, designer Reva Stern was Artistic Director of a Toronto theatre for twenty years.  She has been a Guest Director in Florida, Kansas City, Chicago, Pasadena CA, New York City and Los Angeles and has collaborated with such notables as Isaac Bashevis…
Stevan, Diana
Campbell River
Diana
Stevan
Campbell River
Diana Stevan likes to joke she’s a Jill of all trades as she’s worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five…