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Tina Chaulk lives in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, with her husband and two sons while writing and...
Gail Weir
Gail (Hussey) Weir was born and raised on Bell Island, as was her mother, who was the daughter of a miner.
Her father...
Noelle Hall
Noelle Chason Hall, a daughter of a Newfoundlander and an American serviceman, has spent many of her summers, since...
Adrian de Hoog
Adrian de Hoog was educated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Oxford, and spent 30 years working as a Canadian diplomat...
Felix Leroy Perry
Felix Perry is the great, great grandson of David Dobbin.
In keeping with his family's tradition, he spent many...
Ron Rompkey
Ronald Rompkey, a biographer, editor and reviewer, is University Research Professor in the Department of English at...
Christopher Pratt
Christopher Pratt is one of Canada’s most prominent painters and printmakers.
Throughout his career, he has received...
Rex Brown
Randy W. Somerton
Randy W. Somerton was born in 1962, on Bell Island in Newfoundland, Canada.
He has been a Union representative and...
Donald Barry
Donald Barry is a professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary.
He holds a B.A. from St. Francis...
Jeanette Walsh
Jeanette Walsh is retired from nursing after a 35-year career in the profession.
Jeanette worked in a variety of...
Audrey Marsh
Audrey J. Marsh was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia on November 17, 1911.
She acquired her early education in that...
Marilyn Beaton
Marilyn Beaton has been a nurse for over thirty years. For many of those years, she has been an Associate Professor...
Marion Davison
Marion Alice Davison was born on January 2, 1931.
Raised, educated and married in King's County, Nova Scotia, she...
Willie Thomas
The author who has published Cristoforo under the pseudonym Willie Thomas is a Quebecer of Irish and Acadian descent...
Nick Wilkshire
Originally from St. John’s, Nick Wilkshire is a lawyer with the Department of Justice in Ottawa, where he lives with...
T.C. Badcock
Tom Badcock was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland. He is the author of numerous novels including the best selling A Broken...
Writers Across Canada Online
Writers Across Canada Online (WACO) first came together on the Internet to share, encourage, critique and read each...
Art Seamans
Having grown up in Upstate New York, Art Seamans studied literature at Eastern Nazarene College, Boston University,...
Anthony Barton
Anthony Barton is a painter and writer who has lived in Newfoundland for 28 years.
He has had two sell-out exhibitions...
Joan Over
Joan Over was born in St. John’s. She moved to Ontario to complete her university education, then managed and edited...
Michael Johansen
Michael Johansen has been a print and radio journalist since the late 1980s, writing for newspapers, wire services and...
Saqamaw Mi’sel Joe
Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe, LL. D, CM, is the author of Muinji’j Becomes a Man and An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey. He has...
Nicole Lundrigan
Nicole grew up in Upper Gullies, Newfoundland, with her five siblings and parents, John and Nancy Lundrigan....
Thomas Rendell Curran
Thomas Rendell Curran was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1939.
He was educated at Holloway School, Prince...
Donald Gale
Donald Gale was born in Millville, Codroy Valley, Newfoundland in 1947.
He is a retired teacher who now invests...
Des Walsh
Des Walsh was born in St. John's and first published in 1972.
Since then, he has published four books of poetry....
Caroline Stellings
Caroline Stellings is an author and illustrator of children’s books from Waterdown, Ontario.
She is a professional...
Dolors Toole
Dolors Toole attended the Presentation Convent School in Renews, Newfoundland, Memorial University of Newfoundland,...
Joe Ryan
Winner of the 1969 Tely 10, Joe Ryan has been a long-distance runner for more than 30 years.
In the late 1970s and...
Captain L. Marmaduke Collins
Captain Duke Collins is a master mariner, who was born into a seafaring family in Carmanville, on the north east coast...
Joshua Jamieson
Joshua Jamieson was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, on June 11, 1984.
Joshua first began writing...
Ross A. Klein
Ross A. Klein is academically trained as a sociologist and as a social worker.
His previous writing covers a range...
Bill Abbott
Bill Abbott has been involved in the newspaper business for more than twenty years as a reporter, editor and publisher....
Joanna Gosse
Joanna Gosse grew up in St. John's Newfoundland where she honed her talents as a singer, dancer and actress.
She...
Anne Stine Ingstad
Acclaimed Viking scholars, the Ingstads pieced together their story from old sagas, the researches and guesswork of...
Helge Ingstad
Acclaimed Viking scholars, the Ingstads pieced together their story from old sagas, from the researches and guesswork...
Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Shannon Lewis-Simpson was raised in Holyrood, and now lives in Harbour Main, Conception Bay.
She holds a PhD in...
Pat Byrne
Patrick Byrne, cross-appointed with the Department of English, specializes in the interrelationships between folklore...
Ed Jones
Paul Butler
Paul Butler is a graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre in Toronto and is presently developing a number...
Phyllis Joy Hammond
Phyllis Joy Hammond has exhibited her work in Iceland, Texas, Vermont, Quebec and Alberta.
Mrs. Hammond's diverse...
Clyde Rose
Clyde Rose was born on Fox Island on the southwest coast of Newfoundland.
He attended school in Burgeo following...
Malcolm MacLeod
A native of Halifax, Malcolm MacLeod has lived in Newfoundland since the 1970’s.
He is a past president of the...
JoAnne Soper-Cook
JoAnne Soper-Cook was born in Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland.
Her published work includes short stories, poetry, non-fiction...
Annamarie Beckel
Formerly an ecologist and science writer and then a newsletter editor on an Ojibwe Indian reserve, Annamarie Beckel...
Michael Burzynski
Michael Burzynski began working with national parks as a naturalist in 1973 - the same year that Gros Morne was established....
Lynne Fitzhugh
Lynne Fitzhugh first visited Labrador in 1969 when her archaeologist husband Bill was finishing his dissertation research...
Alan Fisk
Alan Fisk was born in 1950, and lived in Singapore, Austria, and England before coming to Newfoundland in 1972, where...
Gilbert Penny
Gilbert Penney is a retired teacher who lives in Springdale, Newfoundland.
He is married to the former Gleason Rice...
Boyd Warren Chubbs
Boyd Warren Chubbs was born in L'Anse Au Clair, Labrador on Bloomsday, 1955 to Una (nee Cribb) and Gordon Victor Chubbs.
His...
Len Rich
Len Rich was born and raised in Whitehall, New York.
He was first exposed to Newfoundland and Labrador with the US...
Gene Long
Former member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly, Gene Long was the first NDP representative elected in St. John’s....
Chris LeGrow
At age 20, with eight years sailing experience already to his credit, Chris LeGrow of Topsail, Newfoundland was accepted...
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale...
Roberta Buchannan
Roberta Buchannan was born in South Africa, educated in England, and immigrated to Canada in 1964.
She lives in...
Geoffrey C. Carnell
Geoffrey C. Carnell was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland on February 7, 1953.
A Professional Engineer and licensed...
Peggy Smith Krachun
Peggy Smith Krachun has won numerous prizes in several Arts & Letters competitions.
She has published her work in...
Howard Maxwell Harvey
Howard Maxwell Harvery was born on Bell Island on November 6, 1955, but moved to Montreal and then Toronto.
Later...
Albert Reiner-Glaap
Albert Reiner-Glaap studied English, Latin and Philosophy at the University London/England, King's College.
He began...
Kevin Redmond
Kevin Redmond has spent the past thirty years exploring Newfoundland and Labrador's land, sea and related cultural legacies....
C.J. Poole
Calvin Poole was born at the Grenfell Hospital in Mary’s Harbour, Labrador during 1947 and grew up at a nearby fishing...
Michael Cook
Michael Cook was born in Fulham, London, in 1933 and emigrated to Canada in 1966 where he joined the Department of Extension...
Michael Leo Donovan
Michael Leo Donovan is a professional scriptwriter.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, he is Communications...
Sally Goddard
Sally Goddard was born and grew up in London, England.
She developed her love of Marine Biology as a young girl...
Sue Lebrecht
Adventure travel writer Sue Lebrecht has been a travel columnist for the Toronto Star for 15 years.
Her column,...
Peter Bowyer
Peter has been with the Meteorological Service of Canada for many years.
He is the author of two books on Atlantic...
Lynn Noel
Lynn Noel was the Director of River Programs for the Quebec-Labrador Foundation (QLF).
True to the mission of her...
Ella Manuel
Ella Manuel was born in 1911 and grew up in Lewisporte, Newfoundland, where her father was a well known merchant and...
Whale Research Group Memorial University
The Whale Research Group was organized in 1978 in response to the problem of Newfoundland's inshore fishermen who were...
James Hillier
James Hiller, Professor of History at Memorial University and author of a number of articles on Newfoundland in the...
Peter Neary
Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic...
Klaus Peter Mueller
Klaus Peter Muller studied English, French, Philosophy and Educational Science at the Universities of Dusseldorf and...
Rurik Von Antropoff
Rurik von Antropoff studied English, German, Philosophy and Educational Science at the Universities of Freiburg and...
Rolf Altholf
Rolf Althof studied English, German and Educational Science at the Heinreich Hen University of Dusseldorf and at Dalhousie...
Valerie Summers
Valerie Anne Summers was born in Newfoundland.
She received her BA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, her...
Heather Walter
Heather Walter and Eric West have been performing music together since 1988, in schools concert halls, festivals as...
Gerald Thomas
Gerald Thomas is a professor and former head of Memorial University’s Department of Folklore, as well as a professor...
Phillip Gardner
Phillip Gardner was born in Liverpool in 1936.
He studied English Literature at King's College, Cambridge, and after...
Sue Willis
Ian Lowe
Ian Lowe is now an emeritus professor at Griffith University, where he was previously Head of the School of Science....
Barry Kissane
Barry Kissane teaches in the School of Education at Murdoch University, WA, where his main responsibilities include...
Neville Grace
Neville is well known within the Australian Mathematics Trust, having been State Director of the AMC for Queensland...
Tom Dawe
Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay South, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (Memorial Univesity),...
Nick Avis
Nick Avis was born in England, moved to Newfoundland in 1971 and currently lives in St. John's, where he practices law....
Bernice Morgan
Bernice Morgan was born in preconfederate Newfoundland.
She has worked for many years in public relations, first...
Percy Janes
Percy Janes is a Canadian author who was raised in Newfoundland and returned there to live after extended travels in...
Janet Webster
Janet Webster was Director of Special Programs, Department of Education, Whitehorse, Yukon.
She was an elementary...
Andrew Garrod
“In my two careers as high school English teacher and as university education professor, I have sought, first of all,...
Alastair Macdonald
Alastair Macdonald was born and educated in the United Kingdom.
He received degrees from Aberdeen University, Christ...
Ingeborg C. L. Marshall
Ingeborg Marshall has studied with great interest the Beothuk of Newfoundland since she became a resident of the province...
Clifford Wood
Associate Professor of Geography, has been the Director of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Cartographic Laboratory...
Gary E. McManus
Gary McManus is Associate Director of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Cartographic Laboratory, Department of...
Michael Nowlan
Mary Dalton
Mary Dalton was born in Lake View, in the parish of Harbour Main, in Conception Bay.
She has studied at the University...
Anne Petite
Based in Toronto, Anne Petite is a management consultant specializing in customer service solutions; she has worked...
Wynanne Downer
Wynanne Downer was a provincial and municipal politician.
Bill Rowe
Lawyer, writer, broadcaster, Bill Rowe was born in Newfoundland in 1942.
A Rhodes Scholar with an M.A. in Law from...
David Elliott
Born on the East Coast of Newfoundland, David Elliott resides in Corner Brook, where he teaches English at Sir Wilfred...
Helen Fogwill Porter
Helen Fogwill Porter was born and grew up in St. John’s.
Her first book Below the Bridge, was published by Breakwater...
John B. Corston
John B. Corston taught at Pine Hill Divinity School and at the Atlantic School of Theology. He is now retired (and writing)...
Gary Saunders
Gary Saunders was born in northeast Newfoundland and received a B.Sc. in forestry from the University of New Brunswick...
Gerhard Bassler
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, and educated in Germany, England and the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. in European...
Whale Research Group Memorial University
The Whale Research Group was organized in 1978 in response to the problem of Newfoundland's inshore fishermen who were...
Dillon Wallace
Dillon Wallace was born in Craigsville, New York, on June 24, 1863, the son of Dillon Wallace and Ruth Ann Ferguson.
After...
Job Barbour
Captain Job Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898.
He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one...
Al Clouston
Al Clouston was born in St. John's, Newfoundland.
His fifty years in business life and traveling about the island...
Shannon Ryan
Shannon Ryan was born and received his early education in Riverhead, Harbour Grace.
He has studied at Memorial University...
Ivan Jesperson
Life began for Ivan in Piapot, Saskatchewan, the fourth son and sixth child of the village blacksmith, Art Jesperson.
After...
Larry Small
Larry Small was born on Twillingate Island and grew up in Moreton's Harbour, the home of his ancestors for two centuries....
Enos Watts
Enos Watts was born in Long Pond, Manuels on the East Coast of Newfoundland in 1939. He attended Memorial University...
Jack Fitzgerald
Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. During his career he has been a journalist,...
Michael Collins
Born in the UK, Dr. Collins studied in both the sciences and education, receiving a BSc and MSc from Southampton University,...
D.W.S. Ryan
D.W.S. Ryan is an ex-teacher and freelance writer. He has co-edited several literature textbooks in use in high schools...
Grant Boland
Grant Boland is from St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. He has held multiple solo and group exhibitions. He...
Debbie Hanlon
Debbie is an elected city councillor, a national and international columnist, and an award-winning businesswoman. She...
Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer Morgan is a visual artist and writer from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Thomas Moyst, the Second Engineer of...
James Langer
JAMES LANGER is the author of the award-winning poetry collection Gun Dogs (Anansi, 2009). He’s edited poetry for...
Mark Callanan
MARK CALLANAN is the author of Scarecrow (Killick, 2003) and Gift Horse (Signal Editions, 2011) which was shortlisted...
Calvin Evans
Calvin D. Evans is a retired University Librarian who was born in Newfoundland and has lived and worked in six Canadian...
Lesleyanne Ryan
Lesleyanne was born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A retired veteran who served in Bosnia in 93/94, she graduated...
Joan Sullivan
J. M. Sullivan is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Telegram, This Magazine, and...
Chad Pelley
Chad Pelley’s fiction has been recognized by more than a dozen literary awards. His debut novel, Away from Everywhere,...
