Di Brandt often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
Claire Harris was a Canadian poet who lived in Calgary, Alberta. Harris' numerous works explore themes such as mortality, the role and treatment of women of color in society, and the search for identity. Harris attended university in both Dublin and Jamaica, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and a post-graduate diploma. She immigrated to Canada in 1966, working as a high school English teacher before publishing her first poetry book in 1984. After this, Harris published six books, as well as co-authoring two more and editing another. Her work has earned her numerous awards; her 1992 collection, Drawing Down a Daughter, was nominated for a Governor General's Award. In Calgary, Harris got involved working as a poetry editor for Dandelion Magazine from 1981-1989.
Robert Hilles is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Beverley Daurio is a Canadian writer and editor. Formerly editor-in-chief of Poetry Canada Review and editor and publisher of Paragraph: the Canadian Fiction Review, she is currently editor-in-chief of The Mercury Press. Books edited by Beverley Daurio have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, City of Toronto Book Award, Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, and many others. Her short fiction has been published in Canada, Australia, the United States, Romania, and England, and her poetry, reviews, and literary essays have been widely published (including The Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, The Malahat Review and many other venues. If Summer Had a Knife was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. She has served on the boards of directors of various organizations, including the Literary Press Group and the Book and Periodical Council, and has been the recipient of grants in writing from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, as well as the Barbara Deming Memorial Award. She was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association in 1985.She has designed and taught creative writing courses at George Brown College, the Kingston School of Writers, and This Ain't the Rosedale Library, as well as run day-long workshops for high-school students, and has attended writing residencies in Canada and the United States. In multidisciplinary art, she has worked with choreographer and dancer Sheila Muir, choreographer Ted Fox, and with visual artist Sheila Gregory.
Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.
Derek Alexander Beaulieu is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist.
Frederick James Wah, OC, is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
angela rawlings is a Canadian poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist who uses many spectacular languages for her material.
Sheri-D Wilson, CM D. Litt, is a Canadian poet, spoken word artist, educator, speaker, producer and activist.
Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.
Frontenac House is an independent publishing house located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard, 50 titles in print are from this literary press.
John Barton is a Canadian poet.
Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, Exploding Into Night was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
Miriam Mandel was a Canadian poet who won Canada's Governor General's Award.
Jacqueline Jill Robinson is a Canadian writer, editor and teacher. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including Geist, the Antigonish Review, Event, Prairie Fire and the Windsor Review. Her novel, More In Anger, published in 2012, tells the stories of three generations of mothers and daughters who bear the emotional scars of loveless marriages, corrosive anger and misogyny.
Murdoch Maclean Burnett was a Canadian poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist.
Helen Hajnoczky is a visual poet, who currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Micheline Maylor is a Canadian poet, academic, critic and editor.
Cecelia Frey is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network. She was the 2018 recipient of the Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dandelion Magazine was an independent literary magazine published in Calgary, Alberta between 1975 and 2011. In its day, according to The Literary History of Alberta, it was considered Alberta’s leading literary magazine. It started as an annual publication and then became biannual. Over the years, Dandelion featured fiction, poetry, visual art and reviews. Contributors consisted of emerging and established Canadian authors including Joan Clark, Edna Alford, Carol Shields, Robert Hilles, W. P. Kinsella, Robert Kroetsch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Aritha van Herk, and Karen Connelly, among others.
