George Bowering is Canada's first poet laureate and an officer of the Order of Canada. He is the author of more than eighty books, the most recent of which include The Hockey Scribbler, Writing the Okanagan ...

Valerie Taylor (born Velma Young) was a novelist, poet, feminist, and social activist. Whisper Their Love (Fawcett Library) was her first lesbian novel; she followed it with numerous lesbian pulp fiction ...

Barbara Grier is the founder of the Naiad Press, the legendary American lesbian publishing company. She wrote the introduction to the Little Sister's Classic reissue of Whisper Their Love by Valerie Taylor ...

Lindsay Wong is the author of the memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction. ...

Greg Youmans is a scholar, maker, and programmer of queer film and video. His research focuses on gay and lesbian activist and experimental filmmaking of the late 1970s, in the context of the rise of ...

Dany Laferriere was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1953. He is the author of fourteen novels, including I Am a Japanese Writer, Heading South, and the award-winning How to Make Love to a Negro without ...

Mandy Moore is co-author (with Leanne Prain) of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti (a tenth anniversary edition will be published in 2019). She has worked in the yarn craft industry since ...

Gu Xiong came to Canada in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square massacre. For a while he was a sanitation worker at a UBC cafeteria, but he currently works in the Fine Arts Department at the University ...

Jane Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931 and moved to Canada in 1956. She is the author of eleven novels, including Desert of the Heart and Hot-Eyed Moderate. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2007. ...

Nicole Markotic is a novelist, critic, and poet who teaches Children's Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She has widely published in Canada, the USA, Australia, and Europe; ...