Tammy Shane
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Tammy Shane

Inside her cozy studio, Tammy works in acrylic and oil on canvas. As a Canadian contemporary realist painter her creations range from landscapes with cloud-filled skies, to animals.

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Jen Jones
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Jen Jones

Jen Jones is a writer/editor (and former police officer) in Hamilton Ontario. She is a City of Hamilton Arts Award (Emerging Writer) recipient, and has taught creative writing at Mohawk College.

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James Dick
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James Dick

James Dick is an actor, writer, screenwriter, and director living in Toronto, Ontario. He has written short stories and novels across the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.

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Dakota LaMarre
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Dakota LaMarre

Dakota LaMarre is a young writer based in Toronto, Ontario. A lover of philosophy and business as well as fiction, Dakota takes great joy in searching for hidden truths and documenting the human condition.

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Catherine Geiling
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Catherine Geiling

Catherine Geiling has recently rediscovered her love of writing, after a lengthy hiatus to deal with life’s realities, some more real than others.

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Rhonda Skinner
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Rhonda Skinner

Rhonda Skinner is an Edmonton-based writer. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, playing golf, taking photos of wildlife, or playing her ukulele.

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Melissa Hardy
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Melissa Hardy

Melissa Hardy’s short stories have been widely anthologized, including in Best American Short Stories, Best Canadian Short Stories and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

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Roselle Doyle
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Roselle Doyle

Montreal native, Roselle Doyle, is a world class professional figure skater and choreographer who has performed in, and choreographed numerous prestigious ice and stage productions alongside some of the greatest names in figure skating.

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Dana Foley
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Dana Foley

Dana Foley (she/her) lives in Ottawa, Ontario where she studies English Literatures at Carleton University. Creative writing is one of her newest passions.

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Amber Phillips
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Amber Phillips

Amber Phillips is from a small lakeshore town on Lake Huron and a self-taught photographer.

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Kyungseo Min
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Kyungseo Min

Kyungseo Min is a Korean-Canadian playwright and writer currently based in Montreal. As a Third Culture Kid, her goal is to create a distinctive style of writing blending Western and Eastern philosophies.

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Glen Hogard
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Glen Hogard

Glen Hogard lives in Calgary, Alberta and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto.

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Neil B. Bishop
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Neil B. Bishop

Neil B. Bishop is a Canadian educator, translator, and writer. He was born in B.C. and raised mostly in Saskatchewan; he has also lived in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland, and France.

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Marina Dempster
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Marina Dempster

Informed by the patterns and cycles of nature, Marina’s craft is a transmutation of materials, thoughts, and emotions.

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Moni Brar
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Moni Brar

Moni Brar is a settler on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7 Region and Metis Nation Region 3, also known as Calgary. She is a Punjabi, Sikh Canadian writer exploring diasporan guilt, identity, cultural oppression, and intergenerational trauma.

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Emily Dontsos
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Emily Dontsos

Emily Dontsos holds an Honours B.A. in English Literature from McMaster University and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where she served as a co-editor of echolocation, the literary journal of the Graduate Department of English.

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Penelope Woodcroft
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Penelope Woodcroft

Penelope Woodcroft is a poet living in Toronto, Canada. She fell in love with poetry at an early age, reading all the Poe she could get her hands on.

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Jozef Leyden
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Jozef Leyden

Jozef Leyden (pseudonym) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He was born and raised in Bohemia and lived for a few decades in the Netherlands before he found his home in Canada.

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Amy LeBlanc
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Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc is a writer and editor from Calgary, Alberta. She is currently non-fiction editor at filling Station magazine and is the author of two chapbooks, most recently "Ladybird, Ladybird" published with Anstruther Press (August 2018).

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