Gary Barwin is a Canadian poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual poetry, music for live performers and computers, text and sound works, and writing for children and young adults. His music and writing have been presented in Canada, the US, Japan, and Europe.
Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
Steven Heighton was a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is the author of eighteen books, including three short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections. His last work was Selected Poems 1983-2020 and an album, The Devil's Share.
Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist. He also writes under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe.
Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is a Canadian poet, ethnographer, and essayist. Born and raised on the Prairies, she moved to Nova Scotia in 1983. Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books of creative nonfiction, poetry, literacy, ethnography, and essays. Her award-winning writing focuses on women, arts-based research, and memoir/life stories; her work is known for its hybrid and lyrical approaches. She has published book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers.
Danielle (Dani) Couture is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist.
Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editor.
Matthew F. Tierney is a Canadian poet.
John Terpstra is a Canadian poet and carpenter.
Laisha Rosnau is a Canadian novelist and poet.
Tanis Rideout is a Canadian writer based in Toronto, Ontario.
Douglas Burnet Smith is a Canadian poet. He is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry. His Voices from a Farther Room was nominated for the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in Canada. In addition to winning numerous poetry awards, in 1989 Mr. Smith won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. He has also represented Canada at international writers’ festivals and has served as the President of the League of Canadian Poets and as Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. His poetry has also been published in numerous literary periodicals and anthologies. He was twice a member of the Poetry Jury for the Canada Council for the Arts' Governor General's Literary Awards, in 1988 and again in 2011.
Robert Moore is a Canadian poet, actor, director, playwright, and professor. He has written over a dozen plays that have been performed across Canada, and he has published five books of poetry. So Rarely in Our Skins was a finalist for the 6th Annual Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and, along with his two subsequent books, was long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry. Moore's poetry has been published in literary journals such as Descant, The Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, Ink Magazine, Canadian Author, The New Quarterly, Maissoneuve, Pottersfield Portfolio, Gaspereau Review, Prairie Fire, Quadrant Magazine, and Contemporary Verse II. He has been the recipient of the Edmonton Journal Literary Award for poetry (1987) as well as a finalist for the Pottersfield Portfolio Short Poetry Award (1997), The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize (2001) and The New Brunswick Literary Award for Poetry (2016).
Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.
Jeanette Lynes is a Canadian author, poet and professor born in Hanover, Ontario. She went to high school in Hanover and Flesherton, Ontario. She then earned an Honours B.A. in English from York University, Toronto, and went on to earn an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from York University. In 2005 she received an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of Southern Maine's low-residency Stonecoast Program. Jeanette has taught university in Canada and the United States since the mid-1980s. She was the Pathy visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University in 2003. She is a former co-editor of The Antigonish Review. Lynes has been a Writer in Residence at Northern Lights College in B.C., Saskatoon Public Library, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and The Kingston Writers' Festival. She has also been on faculty at The Banff Centre and The Sage Hill Writing Experience (2006-2008) She is now Coordinator of the M.F.A. in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan and a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Lynes is the author of seven collections of poetry and two novels.
Catherine Owen is a Canadian poet, writer, and performer.
Canisia Lubrin is a writer, critic, professor, poet and editor. Originally from St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Richard Lemm is a poet and professor based in Prince Edward Island. He was born in Seattle, immigrated to Canada in 1967, and moved to Atlantic Canada in 1979. He has an MA in English from Queen's University and a PhD from Dalhousie University.
