Nazneen Sheikh was born in Kashmir and went to school in Pakistan and Texas. She has written three titles for young adult audiences: Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories (1985); Heartbreak High (1988); and Lucy and Time of My Life for the Degrassi television series (1989). She has also written several books of […]
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Lien Chao came to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies. She is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her publications also include Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (2001), a creative memoir about growing up in Mao’s China; Strike the Wok: […]
Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels celebrated by the critique and an essay. Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction. Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton […]
Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories, winner of the IPPY and AmericanBookFest awards. She is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. Isolated Incident is her first novel.
Pamela Mordecai writes poetry, fiction and plays. Her collections of poetry include Journey Poem, de Man, Certifiable, The True Blue of Islands, Subversive Sonnets, de book of Mary, Up Tropic, and A Fierce Green Place: new and selected poems. Her first collection of short fiction, Pink Icing and Other Stories, appeared to enthusiastic reviews in […]
Didier Leclair (Didier Kabagema) was born in Montreal to Rwandan parents. He grew up in Africa—Gabon, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville—and returned to Canada in 1987. Since then, he has been living and writing in Toronto. In 2000, his novel Toronto, I Love You won the Prix Trillium, and he has also been a […]
Devakanthan was exiled by the Sri Lankan civil war and now lives in Toronto. He has written numerous essays, short stories, and novels and is an active member of the Toronto Tamil literary community. His work is read and studied internationally, in his homeland and among the diaspora. The Prison of Dreams quintet of novels is an […]
charles c. smith is a poet, playwright and essayist who has written and edited fourteen books. He studied with William Packard at New York University, at Herbert Berghof Studio as well as the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Canada Review, Quill and Quire, Descant, Dandelion and Fiddlehead. He is […]
Sheilah Madonna Salvador moved to Canada with her family when she was 16 and lived in Scarborough until her 20’s. She is an ongoing contributor to the Puritan’s Town Crier blog and was shortlisted for the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival Poetry contest in 2018. She has been published in David F. Shultz’s Hamthology and is one of the […]
Cindy Arlette Orellana is a Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and Toronto-based poet and writer. As a first-generation Canadian born to Haitian parents, Cindy uses her experiences as a visible minority, and the dichotomy and realities of colourism and spirituality within her community, to inspire her storytelling and shed light on the experiences of Caribbean diaspora. Her poetry has appeared in […]
Adom Acheampong is an emerging writer who works in short fiction and prose, and is inspired by the poetic potential of words. She has performed at a number of venues across Toronto, including the Draft Reading Series and the Tartan Turban. One of four 2019 Writers-in-Residence with Firefly Creative Writing, Adom’s short story Ehonam has been published online through Broken Pencil Magazine, and […]
