OUR AUTHORS

Sylvia Adams is the author of a novel, This Weather of Hangmen, the award-winning chapbook, Mondrian’s Elephant, and a poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon, which was runner-up for the Scott-Lampman Award. Her children’s book, Dinner at the Dog Pound, was published in 2009. She is an editor, book reviewer and writing instructor and as ADAR Press has published poetry chapbooks for groups she facilitates. Her poem Water won Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2005 Diana Brebner Award.

Matthew Bin is a writer living in Cambridge, Ontario. He served as a Bombardier in the 11^th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, from 1991 to 1994. Matthew graduated from McMaster University, earning a BA in English in 1996 and an MA in English in 1997. His has written two books  and his articles have appeared in various national and international magazines, including American Atheist, Inside Soccer Canada, and InBurlington. Matthew Bin is currently National President of the Canadian Authors Association.

Brock Currie is an Ottawa poet who looks for the hidden essentials that bring meaning to life. He “yearns for simple uncomplicated things of the heart and sometimes manages to get the words right” – a claim illustrated by a number of unpublished poetry collections that include Ships List for Neruda, Fragile (for Garth MacLeod) and others. Brock says that, like an old diesel tractor he used to ride, he “mutters and sputters and works best with no choke.”

Anthony Dalton is a writer, adventurer, and photographer. He has written six non-fiction books and collaborated on two others. His illustrated non-fiction articles have been published in magazines and newspapers in twenty countries and nine languages. Anthony is currently working on two television documentaries based on his books. Anthony Dalton is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Explorers Club, a Member of the Welsh Academy and former National President of the Canadian Authors Association.

Jasmine D’Costa was born in India and moved to Canada in 2004. As a PhD and international banker for 25 years, Jasmine was published in many academic journals, business magazines and books on international relations, trade, investment, corporate finance and banking. In Canada, Jasmine D’Costa has pursued a career in writing. She now lives in Toronto and brings to the Canadian writing landscape an arresting new voice and her unique gift of nonpareil multicultural storytelling.

Gill Foss, an award-winning poet, is a member of Haiku Canada, The Canadian Poetry Association,  the Ontario Poetry Society, and is a former National President of the Canadian Authors Association. She has been an active member of the Ottawa arts scene for many years with work in numerous anthologies. Her poem Canoe at Sunset won first prize in the Canadian Authors Association 1983 contest; Storm Warning won second prize in the 1979 Alberta Poetry Yearbook contest.

Michael Fraser was born in Grenada, spent his childhood in Edmonton, and has lived in Toronto since the age of 14. He is a high school teacher, poet, and writer. Michael has been published in various anthologies and journals including The Literary Review of Canada, The Paris Atlantic, Caribbean Writer, Zygote, and Qwerty.  He won the 2005 Toronto Star Poem About Toronto contest.

David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. David received his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. He also studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. David has written four previous poetry books: Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications, 1997), The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press, 2000), Under God’s Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press, 2010), and A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn, 2011). His fifth book of poetry, Rising with a Distant Dawn, is scheduled for publication in 2012 by BookLand Press.

Christina Kilbourne loves to write fiction for all ages and has published books in the genres of adult literary fiction, young adult fiction, and juvenile/tween fiction.  Her books include award-winning, juvenile/tween fiction novel Dear Jo, young adult fiction novel Where Lives Take Root, adult literary fiction novel Day of the Dog-tooth Violets, and its sequel The Roads of Go Home Lake. Her newest young adult novel, They Called Me Red, was published in September 2008. Christina's recent book, Dear Jo, won three young reader's choice awards in Canada - one in Manitoba, one in Saskatchewan, and one in British Columbia.

Glenn Kletke lives and writes in Kanata, Ontario. His work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Lichen, Grist Mill, Quills and other journals. His most recent collection of poems is House on the Edge of Ice. Glenn frequently reviews poetry for Canadian Bookseller Magazine.

Pj Kwong is a figure skating expert currently working as a writer and TV commentator for CBC Sports. She has the unique position of seeing figure skating from a number of different angles: as a Skate Canada coach for the last twenty five years, a PA announcer for the last twenty years (including the last five Olympic Games), and as a commentator for major TV networks for the last ten years. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Pj lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario.

Barbara Myers has published poetry, essays and reviews in many national journals and anthologies, and has won several literary prizes including Other Voices (first place, 2000) as well as Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year (HM, 2006). For six years she worked as an associate editor at Arc Poetry Magazine, to which she continues to contribute. She has published a number of chapbooks, both her own work and collections compiled from the work of students in a poetry group she facilitated. Her first full poetry collection, Slide, was published in 2009 by Signature Editions.

Marianne Paul is a poet and novelist. Her books include Tending Memory, Twice in a Blue Moon, and Dead Girl Diaries. Marianne has a BA (Honours) degree with a major in religion, and her interest in world beliefs and philosophies flavours much of her poetry and fiction. Marianne’s stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of regional and national publications. She grew up in Brockville along the St. Lawrence River, and now lives with her family in Kitchener, Ontario, where she continues to write, paddle, and blog. Marianne is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and the Writers’ Union of Canada.

Brandon Pitts is a prolific author, lyricist and poet who infuses his creations with the experience of a life lived on the edge. From the jungles of Cambodia to the back alleys of Los Angeles, his work penetrates the darker side of spirituality, balancing the sublime with the grotesque. Brandon lives in Toronto, Ontario. Puzzle of Murders is his first novel. For additional information about Brandon Pitts please visit his website www.brandonpitts.com.

Fraser Sutherland is a much-travelled Nova Scotian who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. A reviewer for The Globe and Mail, he’s published fifteen books, including poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction in Canada and the United States. His work has appeared worldwide in numerous magazines and anthologies in print and online, and has been translated into French, Italian, Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Farsi. Having written and edited for many dictionaries in three countries, he may be the only Canadian poet who is also a lexicographer. Fraser Sutherland was a reporter and staff writer for several major newspapers and magazines, among them The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Wall Street Journal before he became a freelance writer and editor.

Margaret Malloch Zielinski was born in Scotland and now lives in Ottawa. Her work has been published in many literary journals including The Amethyst Review, The Antigonish Review, Bywords, Contemporary Verse 2, Geist, The Grist Mill, Quills, Room of One’s Own and Zygote, as well as The Ottawa Citizen and Southam Press. Her poems Still Life and Blue Willow Plate were shortlisted for the Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year award in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Margaret’s poem Along Baltic Beaches won Honourable Mention for the 2001 Lapointe Prize.