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Salivarova, Zdena

Salutin, Rick

RICK SALUTIN’s plays include “1837” and “Les Canadiens”, awarded the Chalmers prize for best Canadian play in 1977. His TV work includes “Maria”, directed by Allan King, and “Grierson and Gouzenko”. He has written biography, history, and three novels, including … Continue reading

Sargent, Ted

Saul, John Ralston

Saul, Nick

NICK SAUL is president and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada. He was Executive Director of The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto from 1998 to 2012, and is a recipient of the prestigious Jane Jacobs Prize, as well as … Continue reading

Saunders, Doug

DOUG SAUNDERS is a Canadian-British writer and journalist, the London-based European Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail and author of an award-winning column devoted to the intellectual concepts behind international news. He is the author of Arrival City: The … Continue reading

Sax, David

DAVID SAX is a Toronto based journalist and writer, whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Globe and Mail, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Saveur, and others. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek, where … Continue reading

Scanlan, Lawrence

LAWRENCE SCANLAN has been a journalist for almost four decades – with daily newspapers, magazines, and in radio with two national CBC programmes (producer on Morningside and Writers & Company). He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including three … Continue reading

Schiller, Bill

Sedlack, Robert

ROBERT SEDLACK is the author of two critically acclaimed novels. His debut novel, The African Safari Papers, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. The Globe & Mail called it, “The literary equivalent of a shout from the wilderness. It … Continue reading

Selvadurai, Shyam

Shaben, Carol

CAROL SHABEN has had her personal essays, fiction, and non-fiction published in books, national magazines and literary journals. At the 2009 National Magazine Awards, Shaben was one of three Canadians nominated for Best New Magazine Writer. In June 2010, she … Continue reading

Shekter, Mark

Shephard, Michelle

MICHELLE SHEPHARD is the Toronto Star‘s National Security reporter and multiple winner of Canada’s top journalism prizes, the National Newspaper Award, and the Governor General’s Michener for public service journalism. Her travels have taken her around the world, most recently … Continue reading

Sher, Julian

JULIAN SHER is an award-winning investigative journalist, a documentary writer and director, and the author of six best-selling books. He is currently an investigative national correspondent for the Globe and Mail. His books on crime and the justice system have … Continue reading

Shimo, Alexandra

ALEXANDRA SHIMO studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, and then did a Master’s on scholarship at The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York. A former editor at Maclean’s, Alexandra Shimo is the author of The Environment Equation, … Continue reading

Siggins, Maggie

MAGGIE SIGGINS is the author of eleven books including Canadian Tragedy: The Story of JoAnn and Colin Thatcher which won an Arthur Ellis Award for crime writing and Revenge of the Land which won a Governor General’s Literary Award. Canadian … Continue reading

Silberstein, Avi

AVI SILBERSTEIN was born in Chile in 1982. His short stories have appeared in publications including The New Quarterly and Grain. He is a librarian in Victoria, BC.

Simpson, Anne

ANNE SIMPSON’s most recent book is a series of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness, published by Gaspereau Press. Her most recent book of poetry, Quick (McClelland & Stewart), won the Lowther Award, while her previous collection, Loop (McClelland … Continue reading

Simpson, Jeffrey

Singer, Peter

PETER SINGER MD, MPH, FRCPC, FRSC, is CEO of Grand Challenges Canada, Professor of Medicine, Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics, and Director at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto. Singer’s research is … Continue reading

Singh, Jaspreet

JASPREET SINGH grew up in several cities in India and now lives in Toronto, Canada. Chef, his first novel, won Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2009 Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the … Continue reading

Siskind, Barry

BARRY SISKIND is an internationally recognized exhibit marketing expert and a sought after speaker. He is the President of International Training and Management Company, a firm that specializes in helping companies improve their performance at corporate events and trade shows. … Continue reading

Skvorecky, Josef

Smith, Beverley

Smith, Graeme

GRAEME SMITH covered the Afghan war for The Globe and Mail from 2005 to 2009, spending more time in southern Afghanistan during that period than any other Western journalist. Previously the Globe’s Moscow correspondent, he has won all the major … Continue reading

Snyder, Carrie

CARRIE SNYDER‘s forthcoming book is The Juliet Stories (House of Anansi Press). Her first book, Hair Hat, was published by Penguin Canada in 2004, and was nominated for a Danuta Gleed Award for Short Stories, and more recently was selected … Continue reading

Sonik, Madeline

MADELINE SONIK is an eclectic, award-winning writer and anthologist whose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in literary journals internationally. She won the Annie Dillard Award for nonfiction (2006), was twice winner of Event’s nonfiction contest, and has won … Continue reading

Spalding, Esta

Stackhouse, John

JOHN STACKHOUSE is Editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail. He was previously the Editor of the Report on Business and has also served as the newspaper’s national editor, foreign editor, correspondent at large, and for seven years, from 1992 to … Continue reading