Category: Featured Member Profile

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    About Gina Li After twenty years of wrangling others’ words as a commercial translator, Gina trained as an Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) facilitator. Her AWA workshops are a safe space for writers to take risks and tap into their creative joy. You can find her writing at ginali.substack.com where she shares stories and reflections…

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    About Chro Zand Visit Chro on her website, Facebook, and the Immigrant Story website. A Conversation with Chro Zand We sat down with Chro to discuss her writing journey, creative process, and what inspires her stories. Get an inside look at her experiences and learn valuable insights from a fellow writer in our community. Which…

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    About Carol Teal Carol writes memoir, nonfiction and fiction and loves helping other writers get their stories on the page. Through workshops that generate new ideas, and book coaching writers working on longer projects, she helps writers craft stories from life and imagination. A firm believer in life-long learning, she completed her MFA in Creative…

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    About Gina Grant How Power Tools Led Me to Murder In 2018, I moved to Aurora and started over. Determined to learn DIYing, I bought myself a drill-driver set and discovered that even the beginner tutorials assumed I knew which was which. I did not. Fast forward to today. A neighbor recently asked if he…

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    About Kate LSY Kate LSY lives just north of Toronto with her partner and their four-legged menace. A professional ruminator, she writes stories about Death, devotion, and the soft absurdity of being alive. A surprisingly proud winner of the Inkwell Literary Festival, she fences for fun, works in tech by day, and occasionally mistakes head-banging…

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    About Douglas Smith Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada’s most original writers of speculative fiction.” His work includes the multi-award-winning urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, The Lost Expedition); the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections Chimerascope, Impossibilia, La Danse…

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    About D.M. De Alwis D.M. De Alwis is a Canadian-born Sri Lankan feral mom of three. She has over a decade of experience as a product leader working with startups and is the author of children’s books and fantasy fiction. A Conversation with D. M. De Alwis We sat down with D.M. De Alwis to…

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    About FireCatRich aka Richelle Sholdice Richelle Sholdice (she/her) has operated under the artist handle FireCatRich for over twenty years. By day, she works as a freelance illustrator and creative support. By night, she writes and illustrates everything from webcomics to short stories and novels. Her longest-running and most well-known title is Where Does It Hurt?…

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    About Natalie Shammas Natalie Shammas is a lawyer and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where she also teaches employment law. She completed a JD/MBA program at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business in 2015 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2016. Natalie is passionate about educating writers…

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    About Jasveer Singh Dangi Jasveer Singh Dangi embodies a diverse tapestry of talents—author, podcast host, behavioral trainer, and esteemed health and safety professional hailing from Canada. What began as an unforeseen journey into writing in 2018 with his poignant childhood memoir, Version One and a Half (Version 1 ½), swiftly burgeoned into a prolific career…