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France Adams (Francais)
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France Adams habite Winnipeg depuis son départ de Québec, il y a longtemps. Mère de deux garçons, enseignante et orthopédagogue, elle travaille au niveau préscolaire, primaire et universitaire. Lors d'un séjour de 18 mois en Australie, elle découvre le cercle des conteurs et s'initie au conte oral. Elle a publié des nouvelles : Beyond Words et Simply Write (Heart Space Anthology), des récits épistolaires avec Bertrand Nayet et Charles Leblanc : Voyages en papier (Blé, 2003); des livres pour enfants : Du pain, du lait, des oeufs, du beurre (Plaines, 2004) et Regarde par-ci! Regarde par-là! Regarde partout! (Plaines, 2005). Elle termine une pièce de théâtre pour enfants intitulée Le garçon pommier qui sera présentée en 2007 par le Cercle Molière. |
George Amabile
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George Amabile has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in journals and anthologies in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand, and has published eight books. Among his many awards, he includes the CAA National Prize for Literature for The Presence of Fire, first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest, and a third prize in both the CBC Literary Competition and the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition. He is the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire (2001). His most recent publication is Tasting the Dark: New and Selected Poems (The Muses' Company). Amabile lives in Winnipeg. |
Debra Anderson
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An award-winning writer, playwright and film maker, Debra Anderson is a recipient of the prestigious George Ryga Award for Playwriting and a graduate of the York University Creative Writing Program. A regular on the Toronto reading scene for most of the last decade, Anderson has published widely in journals, and her work has been anthologized in Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws, Bent: On Writing, and the Lambda-nominated Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity. Her rawly-funny first novel, Code White (McGilligan), finds resilience and even wisdom in the chaos of a psych ward. Anderson currently resides in Toronto, where she was born and raised. |
Dale Auger
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Dale Auger, a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, has established himself as a speaker, writer, educator, and visual artist; he is in demand in Canada and internationally for his paintings, lectures, and workshops. His first book, Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children (Heritage House), brings his talents and passions into perfect balance. Written in English and Cree, the story captures the intricate links between Native spirituality and the laws of nature, and feels both present and timeless. Auger\'s extraordinary watercolor paintings are vivid and beautiful. He lives in Bragg Creek, Alberta. |
Jamie Bastedo
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Jamie Bastedo is a writer and environmental consultant living in Yellowknife. His outstanding contributions to the conservation and promotion of northern nature earned him the Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal, and his passion for popularizing natural science brought him national honor when he won the 2002 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion. Established as an adult non-fiction writer, Red Deer Press is publishing his first two books for young audiences: Free as the Wind tells a true story about Sable Island horses, and On Thin Ice raises warning flags about the rapid changes in both climate and culture in Canada's Arctic. |
C C Benison
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C.C. Benison is the nom de plume for Winnipeg writer and editor Doug Whiteway. His three mystery novels set in England, Death at Buckingham Palace, Death At Sandringham House, and Death at Windsor Castle, have been translated into three languages. A Carleton University journalism graduate, he has been a reporter and feature writer for newspapers and magazines, and currently edits The Beaver, Canada's history magazine. He has received a National Magazine Award, two Western Magazine Awards, and an Arthur Ellis Award for best first mystery novel. His newest mystery novel, Death in Cold Type (Signature Editions), is set in Winnipeg. |
Laurie Block
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Laurie Block is a poet, playwright, and storyteller who grew up in Winnipeg and now calls Brandon home. His full-length play, The Tomato King, was produced by Theatre Projects of Manitoba in 1997. His short story, "While the Librarian Sleeps" won the Prairie Fire fiction contest and a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for fiction. He has published three volumes of poetry: Governing Bodies, the bilingual Foreign Graces/Bendiciones Ajenas, and most recently Time out of Mind (Oolichan), an exploration of Alzheimer\'s gradual erosion of his mother\'s self. This moving collection of poems is the map of their journey into and out of that darkness. |
Dennis Bock
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Dennis Bock's first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award, the inaugural Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award. His best-selling first novel, The Ash Garden, won the Japan-Canada Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Kiriyama Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region). His new novel, The Communist's Daughter (HarperCollins), brings the legendary Canadian doctor Norman Bethune--visionary, radical, martyr--vividly to life. Bock lives with his family in Guelph, Ontario. |
Gail Bowen
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Gail Bowen\'s Joanne Kilbourn mysteries have made her one of Canada\'s most popular crime writers. The first in the series, Deadly Appearances, was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1990, and A Colder Kind of Death won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award in 1994. Her new novel, The Endless Knot (McClelland & Stewart), is the tenth in the series. Bowen has also written five plays that have been produced across Canada, and several of her mysteries have been made into TV movies starring Wendy Crewson as Joanne. Head of the English Department at the First Nations University of Canada, Bowen lives in Regina. |
Brian Brennan
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Brian Brennan is an award-winning Alberta author who specializes in books about the people and the social history of Western Canada. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he immigrated to Canada in 1966 and has lived in Calgary since 1974. He spent twenty-five years as a full-time journalist with the Calgary Herald, writing columns and feature stories, before leaving to devote his time to writing books, giving radio talks, and playing the piano. His titles include Boondoggles, Bonanzas, and Other Alberta Stories and Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters from Alberta\'s Past. His new book is How the West Was Written: The Life and Times of James H. Gray (Fifth House). |
Martha Brooks
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Martha Brooks is a Winnipeg artist who is acclaimed as both a writer and a jazz singer. Among the long list of writing awards are the Mr. Christie Book Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Vicki Metcalf Award, the IBBY Honor Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People Award, the Chalmers Best Canadian Children's Play Award, and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award. She has been nominated for the Governor General's Award four times, winning it in 2002 for Confessions of a Heartless Girl (Groundwood). Her debut CD, Change of Heart, won the Prairie Music Award for outstanding jazz album that same year. |
Sigmund Brouwer
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Sigmund Brouwer didn't come easily to reading, and much of his energy as a writer now is devoted to supporting kids in their efforts to become better readers. "Kids who can read and write well when they get out of school have a lot better chance of reaching their dreams than kids who still struggle with it," he says. He has an astonishing number of new titles coming soon from Orca, all in various series targeting reluctant readers. Among them are Timberwolf Chase and Timberwolf Revenge from the Echoes Series, Sewer Rats, from Orca Currents, and Rebel Glory from Orca Sports. Brouwer lives in Red Deer. |
Heather Summerhayes Cariou
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Heather Summerhayes Cariou was born, raised and educated in Ontario, and has spent much of her adult life on stages all across Canada and off-Broadway, and on location with her actor-husband, Len Cariou. Her book, Sixtyfive Roses: A Sisters Memoir (McArthur & Company), is a graceful memoir tracing the challenges and gifts of life with her sister, Pam, who suffered from the terminal disease Cystic Fibrosis. Diagnosed at the age of four, and given only months to live, the family took on the challenge, eventually founding the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Cariou emigrated to New York City in 1983. |
Simone Chaput (Francais)
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Originaire de Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), Simone Chaput étudie au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface et à l'Université du Manitoba. En 1978, elle termine une maîtreise en littérature à l'Université de Toronto. Au retour d'un stage en littérature/théâtre a l'Universitâé de Londres et d'un séjours en France, en Italie et en Grèce, elle commence à écrire. Son premier roman, La Vigne amère (Blé, 1989) est couronné du prix littéraire La Liberté. Un piano dans le noir (Blé, 1991), obtient lui aussi le prix littéraire La Liberté.. Elle public un troisième roman en français, Le Coulonneux (Blé, 1998), des nouvelles, Incidents de parcours (Blé, 2000), et un roman en anglais, Santiago (Turnstone Press, 2004). Simone enseigne la langue et la littérature française au Collegiate de l'Université de Winnipeg. |
Ying Chen (Francais)
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Née à Shanghai en 1961, Ying Chen obtient dans cette ville une licence en lettres françaises. Outre le dialecte de sa région et le mandarin, elle a appris le russe, l'italien, l'anglais et le français. En 1989, elle vient étudier à l'Université McGill. Pour tromper la nostalgie de sa Chine natale, elle se met à écrire jusqu'à douze heures par jour. Écrivaine de romans, notamment La mémoire de l'eau et Lettres chinoises, elle publie en 1995 L'Ingratitude, qui a été en lice pour le prix Fémina et qui a obtenu le prix Québec-Paris et le prix des lectrices d'Elle-Québec. Son dernier roman est Le Mangeur, publié par les Éditions Boréal en 2006. |
Richard Clewes
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Richard Clewes is an internationally recognized creative director whose work in advertising has won prizes in the UK, the US, Canada and at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival. In the aftermath of his estranged wife's suicide, he left the safe confines of a familiar life and embarked on a physical-and spiritual-quest. Finding Lily (Key Porter) is the record of a trip through four continents and his own dark underworld. Part travelogue, part contemplation, peppered with sharp observations, evocative drawings, and the wisdom of writers of all sorts, Finding Lily is an assured debut. Clewes lives in Toronto. |
Jan Conn
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Jan Conn is both a research scientist working on malarial mosquitoes, and a successful poet, with six collections to her credit. South of the Tudo Bem Café was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and a suite of poems, Amazonia, won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards. Her new book, Jaguar Rain (Brick Books), travels the Amazon with the remarkable painter-explorer Margaret Mee (1909-88) as guide. Written with Mee's journals and illustrations, Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship. Roo Borson calls it "a book of marvels from the tropical zone of poetry." Conn lives in Albany, NY. |
MÉIra Cook
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Méira Cook was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and came to Canada in the late 1980s. She has published three poetry collections, A Fine Grammar of Bones, Toward a Catalogue of Falling, and Slovenly Love (Brick Books), a couple of chapbooks, and a novel, The Blood Girls. Toward a Catalogue of Falling was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Her most recent book is a collection of essays, Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women (Wilfred Laurier). Cook lives and writes in Winnipeg. |
Gloe Cormie
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Winnipegger Gloe Cormie's poetry collection, Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the Blues, was a finalist for several awards, and her second poetry book, Under a Different Dark Sky (Augustine Hand Press), has recently been completed. She has won recognition for her work in literary competitions, including in Prairie Fire. The oral aspect of her poetry is as important as the written aspect, thus Cormie has given poetry readings in several Canadian, American and Asian cities, including Chicago, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, and broadcast her poems nationally on CBC radio. She is an active member of the League of Canadian Poets, and has been re-elected as the 2006-07 Manitoba Representative. |
Christopher Paul Curtis
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Christopher Paul Curtis made an outstanding debut with The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, which was showered with praise, including ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Booklist 25 Top Black History Picks for Youth, and a New York Times Best Book. His second novel, Bud, Not Buddy, is the first book ever to receive both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award, an award given each year to a black writer for an inspirational and educational contribution to literature. His new book is Mr Chickee's Magic Money (Random House). Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan, but makes his home now in Windsor, Ontario. |
Rosanna Deerchild
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Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Prairie Fire and CV2. She has been a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective since its inception in 1999. This group of Manitoba writers has released two collections, urban kool and Bone Memory, and a live spoken word CD, Red City. Her work has most recently been published in Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry (Talonbooks), edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch. She has finished her first manuscript, entitled This is a small northern town, and is now working on her second collection. Deerchild lives in Winnipeg. |
Barry Dempster
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Barry Dempster has published nine collections of poetry, a children's book, two volumes of short stories, and a novel, The Ascension of Jesse Rapture. He came to national attention in 1982 when his first poetry collection was nominated for a Governor General's Award; he has since received a Confederation Poets Prize and a Petra Kenney Award. His most recent book, The Burning Alphabet (Brick Books), a clear-eyed and emotionally-charged collection, was nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award, and won the CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award. Born and raised in Toronto, he lives now in Holland Landing, north of the city. |
David Elias
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David Elias writes in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and children's literature. He has published two collections of stories, Crossing the Line and Places of Grace, which received strong critical and audience response. His short story "How I Crossed Over" from Places of Grace was a finalist for the 1995 Journey Prize. His warmly funny first novel, Sunday Afternoon (Coteau), was shortlisted for The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Elias lives in Winnipeg, and divides his time between teaching and writing. |
Joe Fiorito
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Joe Fiorito has written city columns for the National Post, the Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette, and is now a city columnist at the Toronto Star. He is the author of an internationally-acclaimed memoir, The Closer We Are to Dying, as well as two collections of newspaper columns, Comfort Me with Apples and Tango on the Main. His novel, The Song Beneath the Ice, won the 2003 City of Toronto Book Award. He has lived in Toronto for the past eight years, and his new book, Union Station: Stories of the New Toronto (McClelland & Stewart), is a clear-eyed tour of the city that Canadians love to hate. |
Paul Friesen
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Paul Friesen has been writing most of his literate life. When he began frequenting (if not inhabiting) Heaven Art & Book Café in 1995, his writing took on a more audience-specific intent. That now-mythical place was the site of his first public readings. His linguistic impulses, coupled with a quasi-pathological fascination with language, mean most of his work falls incidentally and mostly by accident into the live spoken word genre. He can always be found on the first Tuesday of every month at the Academy Bar & Oven for Speaking Crow, Winnipeg's longest-running open-mic literary event. |
Tony G De Luca
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Tony G. De Luca was born in Lappano, Cosenza, Italy and came to Canada in 1959. After graduating from Gordon Bell H. School, he worked in the real estate industry until De Luca's was established in 1969. Tony and his three bothers Frank, Pasquale, Peter, together with Papa Vincenzo and mother Emilia, worked in the store that expanded to include a wholesale division, a restaurant, a cooking school and a wine store. Their most recent accomplishments are a new cooking school and meeting centre at 956 Portage Avenue, and a new cookbook: The Italian Way: Cooking with the De Luca's (Alba Publishing). |
Lise Gaboury-Diallo (Francais)
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Née à Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), Lise Gaboury-Diallo est professeure de langue française et des littératures francophones au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (MB). Elle est l'auteure de nombreux articles critiques, de nouvelles et textes divers, dont 4 recueils de poésie : Subliminales (1999), transitions (2002), Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal (2005) et Homestead, poèmes du coeur de l'Ouest (2005), oeuvre pour laquelle elle a remporté le premier prix, catégorie poésie française, des Prix littéraires Radio-Canada 2004. Ce recueil inclut la traduction de Mark Stout, les illustrations d'Étienne Gaboury, d'Anna Binta Diallo et les photographies de Laurence Véron. |
Linda Ghan
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Originally from a Jewish farming community in southern Saskatchewan, Linda Ghan has written fiction, drama, and journalism in Jamaica, Montreal, and Japan. Her first novel, A Gift of Sky, had two editions in Canada as well as publication in translation in Japan. Her children's story, Muhla, The Fair One, was commissioned and performed by Montreal's Black Theatre Workshop and published by Nuage Editions. She has written articles for Japanese dailies, and published a non-fiction book, Gaston Petit: The Kimono and the Cross. Her new novel, Sosi (Signature Editions), follows a young Turkish-Armenian girl fleeing Turkey in the early 20th century. Ghan lives in Montreal. |
Michelle GrÉGoire
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A talented composer and versatile performer, jazz pianist Michelle Grégoire holds an undergraduate jazz degree from St. Francis Xavier University and a Master's in Jazz Studies from the Florida State University. An active freelance musician since 1984, Grégoire is a sought-after leader and sideperson, and has played with the who's-who on the Canadian jazz scene. She won the Project COOL competition in 2004, which resulted in her first CD, Reaching, which was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award and listed as one of the best of the year by CBC's After Hours. Grégoire lives in Winnipeg. |
Rawi Hage
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Rawi Hage was born in 1964 in Beirut, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. At 18, he immigrated to New York, and eventually moved to Montreal. He is a visual artist and curator, whose work has been shown in galleries and museums around the world. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals, and this year, Anansi published De Niro's Game, a novel of two young men in war-torn Beirut. Hage brilliantly fuses vivid, jump-cut cinematic imagery with the measured strength and beauty of Arabic poetry in this powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after. |
Richard Harrison
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Richard Harrison is the author of five books of poetry, including Hero of the Play and Big Breath of a Wish which won the City of Calgary/W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic, and his work has been featured on many TV and radio broadcasts including Adrienne Clarkson Presents and Peter Gzowski's Morningside. Dionne Brand calls his powerful new collection, Worthy of His Fall (Wolsak & Wynn), "a lyric on masculinity." Harrison lives in Calgary where he teaches English and Creative Writing at Mount Royal College. |
Tomson Highway
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Tomson Highway, the proud son of legendary caribou hunter and world championship dogsled racer, Joe Highway, was born in a tent pitched in a snow bank in the extreme northwest corner of Manitoba. Among his acclaimed works are a best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, and several plays, The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, and most recently, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout (Talonbooks). He has three children's books to his credit, all written bilingually in Cree and English, and has toured his cabaret work throughout Europe and North America. He divides his year between a cottage near Sudbury and an apartment in the south of France. |
Linda Holeman
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Before writing historic novels for adults, Linda Holeman was well-known for her writing for young adults with such books as Search of the Moon King's Daughter, which won numerous awards including the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award and the Mr Christie Book Award Silver Seal. She has published short story collections for both young adults and adults. Her historical novel, The Linnet Bird, has appeared in ten countries. Her newest title, The Moonlit Cage (McArthur & Company), is slated already for six. The Globe and Mail says it is "definitely a book you want to talk about." Holeman lives in Winnipeg. |
Anita Horrocks
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Anita Horrocks' novels for young adults have all enjoyed critical acclaim and a lively readership. Breath of a Ghost was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Alberta Children's Literature Award. What They Don't Know won both that award and a Red Maple Award. Topher also won the Writers Guild of Alberta Children's Literature Award and was a runner-up for the Golden Eagle Children's Choice Award. Almost Eden, her new release from Tundra, is her first novel to draw on her own Mennonite background growing up in Winkler. Horrocks lives with her husband in Lethbridge. |
Sally Ito
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Sally Ito studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta, and traveled on scholarship to Japan, where she translated Japanese poetry. Her first book, Frogs in the Rain Barrel, was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. Her second, Floating Shore (Mercury Press), won the Writers Guild of Alberta Book Award for short fiction, and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Prize and the City of Edmonton Book Prize. Her work has appeared in literary journals, and in Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets and Poets 88. Ito teaches creative writing at the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg. |
Mark Anthony Jarman
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Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of 19 Knives, New Orleans is Sinking, and the travel book Ireland's Eye (Anansi). His hockey novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca's list of 50 Essential Canadian Books. He has been shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays, he won a Gold National Magazine Award for nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories. He is this year's winner of Prairie Fire's Award for Non-Fiction. Jarman lives in Fredericton where he teaches at the University of New Brunswick and serves as fiction editor for The Fiddlehead. |
Sarah Klassen
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Sarah Klassen reads, writes and sometimes teaches in Winnipeg where she was born. Journey to Yalta, her first book, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; her second, Violence and Mercy, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Three of her books - Violence and Mercy, Dangerous Elements, and Simon Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love - have been recognized with nominations for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and Peony Season, a short fiction collection, was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award. Her long poem, "In Retrospect," which won a National Magazine Gold Award, appears in her new volume, the quietly powerful A Curious Beatitude (The Muses' Company). |
M Travis Lane
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M Travis Lane has established herself as a pre-eminent Canadian poet, with many acclaimed titles to her credit. Her awards include several prizes from literary journals - Arc, Fiddlehead, Amethyst Review, and Atlantic Poetry - as well as the 1980 Pat Lowther Award for Divinations and the 2002 Atlantic Canada Poetry Award for Keeping Afloat. In 2003, she received the Alden Nowlan Award for Literary Excellence in the English Language. Her new book, Touch Earth, has just been published by Guernica Editions. An honorary research associate in the University of New Brunswick's English Department, she lives in Fredericton. Prairie Fire will present her with the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award at THIN AIR. |
Annette Lapointe
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Annette Lapointe was born in Saskatoon on the coldest day of 1978 to hippy parents whose pursuit of pastoral bliss led Annette to be schooled mostly in a small, scary town outside the city, for which they have since apologized. She did her BA at the University of Saskatchewan, and her MA there and at Memorial University. After a stint teaching ESL in South Korea and Women's Studies in Canada, she is pursuing doctoral studies in English at the University of Manitoba. She has just published Stolen (Anvil), featuring a surprisingly sympathetic prairie anti-hero. In a rave review, the Globe and Mail called it "an exceptional first novel." |
Charles Leblanc (Francais)
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Né une seule fois à Montréal en 1950, Charles Leblanc a vécu la moitié de sa vie au Manitoba. Titulaire de baccalauréats en sciences sociales et en sciences économiques et d'un certificat en traduction. N'ayant pu se décider, il a eu plusieurs carrières : chercheur et enseignant en sciences économiques, serveur de bar, copropriétaire d'une boîte de nuit, acteur professionnel, coordonnateur d'événements artistiques, ouvrier industriel et traducteur. Des constantes : le théâtre (comédien au sein de plusieurs troupes, dont le Cercle Molière) et la poésie (cinq recueils publiés aux Éditions du Blé). Le dernier, l'appétit du compteur (2003), a mérité le prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault en 2005. |
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