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Yuan-Innes (writing as Melissa Yi), Melissa
Melissa
Yuan-Innes (writing as Melissa Yi)
Melissa
Melissa Yi, also known as Melissa Yuan-Innes, escapes from her work as an emergency physician by writing her way into different worlds, from a Chinese Cinderella to the critically acclaimed Hope Sze medical thrillers to her bestselling memoir, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the…
Zaghal, Ashraf
Zaman, Farida
Toronto
Farida
Zaman
Toronto
Farida Zaman is an illustrator for 16 books and author illustrator of 3 books- “ALIYA’S SECRET- A STORY OF RAMADAN” (Owl Books) 2023  “MEENA CAN’T WAIT” (Orca Books) - spring 2024. Recently Farida has signed 2 more book deals with OWL BOOKS publish dates…
Zarankin, Julia
Zaric, Richard
Winnipeg
Richard
Zaric
Winnipeg
Richard
Richard was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has lived in various cities in North America but settled back in his home town in 2002. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. His first book, Hiding Scars, is a historical fiction novel and was…
Zeman, Ludmila
Montreal
Zeman-Spaleny, Linda
Toronto
Zhang, Ling
Zier-Vogel, Lindsay
Toronto
Zimmerman, Alex
Victoria
Alex
Zimmerman
Victoria
Alex, before retiring from his main career, consulted on operationalizing sustainability in the buildings industry, for both projects and organizations. Alex was the Founding President of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) in 2003. CaGBC became, under his watch, a…
Zimmermann, H. Werner
Guelph
H. Werner
Zimmermann
Guelph
Author of Snow Day (Scholastic 1999) and the Alphonse series of books, Werner also illustrates for other authors: Helaine Becker ( 2014 Libris Award winner Dashing Through the Snow & 2010  Porcupine in a Pine Tree) and Jean Little (2003 Mr Christie Award winner Pippin…
Zonailo, Carolyn
Montreal, QC
Carolyn
Zonailo
Montreal, QC
Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, Canada. She has published over a dozen chapbooks and books of poetry. Her work has appeared in periodicals and anthologies, her poetry set to music, recorded and broadcast. She studied at the University of Rochester, New York, and received…
Zonta, Patricia
Zorn, Alice
Montreal
Alice
Zorn
Montreal
Alice Zorn lives in Montreal. Her collection of short fiction, Ruins & Relics, was shortlisted for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Prize. In 2011 she published a novel, Arrhythmia, with NeWest Press. Her second novel, Five Roses, appeared with Dundurn Press in…
Zubatiuk, Kurt
Zuehlke, Mark
Victoria
Mark
Zuehlke
Victoria
A full-time writer since 1981, Mark Zuehlke has emerged in recent years as one of Canada’s leading new writers of military history. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than twenty books and before turning his attention primarily to book writing in 1992 had published…
Zwarenstein, Carlyn
Toronto
Carlyn
Zwarenstein
Toronto
Carlyn Zwarenstein is a Toronto writer whose writing has been has been described variously as compelling, sensuous, measured, rage-inducing, radical, and gorgeous. Her second book. On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance (Goose Lane Editions), was published in…
Zweig, Eric
Owen Sound
Eric
Zweig
Owen Sound
By the age of ten Eric Zweig was already a budding sports fanatic who was filling his school news books with game reports instead of current events. He has been writing professionally about sports and sports history since graduating from Trent University in 1985 with a degree in…