# List of Canadian writers

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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## A

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Irving Abella | 1940 | 2022 | historian | None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 |
| Louise Abbott | 1950 | | non fiction author, photographer, filmmaker | The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence |
| Jordan Abel | | | poet, novelist | Empty Spaces, The Place of Scraps |
| Mark Abley | 1955 | | poet, journalist | Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages |
| Carolyn Abraham | 1968 | | journalist, non-fiction | Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Eistein's Brain, The Juggler's Children: A Journey Into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us |
| Marianne Ackerman | 1952 | | playwright, novelist, journalist | |
| Janice Acoose | 1954 | 2020 | journalist | Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak |
| Milton Acorn | 1923 | 1986 | poet | The Island Means Minago |
| José Acquelin | 1956 | | poet | Anarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable |
| Ken Adachi | 1929 | 1989 | historian, critic | The Enemy That Never Was |
| Barry D. Adam | 1952 | | sociologist | |
| Evan Adams | 1966 | | dramatist | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River |
| Ian Adams | 1937 | 2021 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence |
| Mary Electa Adams | 1823 | 1898 | poet | From Distant Shores |
| Gil Adamson | 1961 | | novelist, short stories, poet | The Outlander |
| Caroline Adderson | 1963 | | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice |
| Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler | | | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake |
| Marie-Célie Agnant | 1953 | | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang |
| Freda Ahenakew | 1932 | 2011 | linguist, children's literature | |
| Jean Marc Ah-Sen | | | novelist, short stories | Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| Kate Aitken | 1891 | 1971 | journalist, cooking enthusiast | Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book |
| Kelley Aitken | 1954 | | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate |
| Will Aitken | 1949 | | novelist, journalist | Terre Haute, Realia |
| Donald Akenson | 1941 | | novelist, historian | |
| Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm | 1965 | | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet |
| Omar El Akkad | 1982 | | novelist | American War, What Strange Paradise |
| Linda Aksomitis | 1954 | | children's literature | Adeline's Dream |
| Kamal Al-Solaylee | 1964 | | journalist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes |
| Donald Alarie | 1945 | | poet | Jérôme et les mots |
| Robert Arthur Alexie | 1957 | 2014 | novelist | Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian |
| André Alexis | 1957 | | novelist, journalist, short stories | Childhood, Asylum, Pastoral |
| Edna Alford | 1947 | | poet | |
| Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | 1985 | | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy |
| Nada Alic | 1986 | | short stories | Bad Thoughts |
| Sandra Alland | 1973 | | poet, journalist | |
| Donna Allard | 1956 | | poet | |
| Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) | 1941 | 2023 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | |
| Grant Allen | 1848 | 1899 | science writer, novelist | The Woman Who Did |
| Harper Allen | | | romantic fiction | |
| Lillian Allen | 1951 | | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes |
| Ralph Allen | 1913 | 1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
| Robert Thomas Allen | 1911 | 1990 | humorist, children's literature | The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life |
| Tom Allen | 1964 | | creative non-fiction | Rolling Home |
| Paul Almond | 1931 | 2015 | novelist, screenwriter | |
| Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951 | 2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
| Lisa Alward | 1962 | | short stories | Cocktail |
| George Amabile | 1936 | | poet | |
| William Lacey Amy | 1877 | 1962 | writer | 'Blue Pete' series |
| Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard) | 1906 | 1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
| Marguerite Andersen | 1924 | 2022 | poet | Courts métrages et instantanés |
| Debra Anderson | | | novelist, playwright | Code White |
| Doris Anderson | 1921 | 2007 | journalist | The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter |
| Enza Anderson | 1964 | | journalist | |
| Gordon Stewart Anderson | 1958 | 1991 | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
| Hugh Anderson | 1890 | 1965 | playwright | Auld Lang Syne |
| Patrick Anderson | 1915 | 1979 | poet | |
| Rod Anderson | 1935 | | poet, accounting texts | |
| Trevor Anderson | 1972 | | screenwriter | |
| Gail Anderson-Dargatz | 1963 | | novelist | The Cure for Death by Lightning |
| Maryse Andraos | 1988 | | novelist | Sans refuge |
| Michael Andre | 1946 | | poet | |
| François-Réal Angers | 1812 | 1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
| Vincent Anioke | | | short stories | Perfect Little Angels |
| Trey Anthony | 1974 | | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair |
| Salvatore Antonio | 1976 | | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen |
| Marianne Apostolides | | | novelist, memoirist | Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure |
| Lisa Appignanesi | 1946 | | novelist, biographer | Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir |
| Emmanuel Aquin | 1968 | | novelist | |
| Hubert Aquin | 1929 | 1977 | novelist | Prochain épisode |
| Nelly Arcan | 1973 | 2009 | novelist | Putain |
| Gilles Archambault | 1933 | | novelist | L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions |
| Bert Archer | 1968 | | journalist, essayist | The End of Gay |
| Richard Arès | 1910 | 1989 | | |
| Tammy Armstrong | 1974 | | novelist, poet | Bogman's Music |
| Jeannette Armstrong | 1948 | | novelist, poet | Slash |
| Kelley Armstrong | 1968 | | horror fiction | Women of the Otherworld |
| Rebecca Agatha Armour | 1845 | 1891 | novelist, local historian | Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton |
| David Arnason | 1940 | | poet, novelist, historian | The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg |
| Daniel Arnold | | | playwright, screenwriter | Lawrence & Holloman, Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience |
| Joanne Arnott | 1960 | | poet, children's literature | Wiles of Girlhood |
| Lawrence Aronovitch | 1974 | | playwright | |
| Nina Arsenault | 1974 | | | |
| Ryad Assani-Razaki | 1981 | | novels, short stories | Deux cercles, La main d'Iman |
| Bernard Assiniwi | 1935 | 2000 | novelist, essayist, journalist | La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde |
| Damien Atkins | 1975 | | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project |
| Diana Atkinson | 1964 | | novelist | Highways and Dancehalls |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939 | | novelist, poet, critic | The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Surfacing |
| Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé | 1814 | 1841 | novelist | L'influence d'un livre |
| Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé | 1786 | 1871 | novelist, memoirist | |
| Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot) | 1947 | 2012 | novelist, short stories | Cet imperceptible mouvement |
| Jean-Paul Audet | 1918 | 1993 | theologian | |
| Noël Audet | 1938 | 2005 | poet, novelist | Ah, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier |
| Larry Audlaluk | 1953 | | memoirist | What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile |
| Ashley Audrain | 1982 | | novelist | |
| Emily Austin | | | novelist, poet | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space |
| Jonathan Auxier | 1981 | | young adult literature | The Night Gardener |
| François Avard | 1968 | | screenwriter | Les Bougon |
| Susan Avingaq | 1942 | | screenwriter, children's literature | Before Tomorrow, Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil |
| Margaret Avison | 1918 | 2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
| Mona Awad | 1978 | | novelist, short stories | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl |
| Edem Awumey | 1975 | | novelist | Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales |
| Makram Ayache | 1990 | | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer |
| Malcolm Azania | 1969 | | science fiction | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad |
| Caroline Azar | | | playwright | The Surreal Detective |

## B

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Todd Babiak | | | novelist | The Garneau Block |
| Ken Babstock | 1970 | | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht |
| Mette Bach | | | novelist, screenwriter | |
| Elizabeth Bachinsky | 1976 | | poet | |
| Aaron Badgley | 1964 | | non-fiction, biographer | Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label |
| Britta Badour | | | poet | Wires That Sputter |
| Bruce Bagemihl | 1962 | | science | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity |
| Samantha M. Bailey | | | novelist | Woman on the Edge, Watch Out for Her |
| Pierre Baillargeon | 1916 | 1967 | novelist | Le scandale est nécessaire |
| Martha Baillie | 1960 | | novelist | The Incident Report |
| Irene Baird | 1901 | 1981 | novelist, poetry, journalist | Waste Heritage |
| Jacqueline Baker | 1967 | | novelist, short stories | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours |
| R. Scott Bakker | 1967 | | fantasy | Prince of Nothing |
| Sharon Bala | 1979 | | novelist, short stories | The Boat People |
| Shauna Singh Baldwin | 1962 | | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw |
| John Ballem | 1925 | 2010 | novelist | |
| Winifred Bambrick | 1892 | 1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
| Catherine Banks | c.1960 | | playwright | Bone Cage |
| Himani Bannerji | 1942 | | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism |
| Kaushalya Bannerji | | | poet | |
| Gary Bannerman | 1947 | 2011 | non-fiction | Squandering Billions |
| Nick Bantock | 1949 | | novelist | Griffin and Sabine |
| Simina Banu | | | poet | Pop, I Will Get Up Off Of |
| Marius Barbeau | 1883 | 1969 | academic, folklorist | |
| Raymond Barbeau | 1930 | 1992 | essayist, literary critic | |
| Victor Barbeau | 1896 | 1994 | | |
| Bruce Barber | 1950 | | art critic | Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State |
| Joan Barfoot | 1946 | | novelist | Dancing in the Dark, Luck |
| Keith Barker | | | playwright | The Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here |
| Leslie Gordon Barnard | 1890 | 1961 | short stories, fiction | |
| Robert Barr | 1849 | 1912 | novelist, short stories, humorist | The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
| Laurent Barré | 1886 | 1964 | novelist | |
| Joelle Barron | | | poet | Ritual Lights |
| James Bartleman | 1939 | 2023 | memoirist, young adult literature | Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow |
| John Barton | 1957 | | poet | Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis |
| Gary Barwin | 1964 | | novelist, children's literature, poet | Seeing Stars |
| Earl W. Bascom | 1906 | 1995 | cowboy historian | The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding |
| Rodrigo Bascunan | 1976 | | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System |
| Jean Basile | 1932 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
| Michel Basilières | 1960 | | novelist | Black Bird |
| Gurjinder Basran | 1972 | | novelist | Everything Was Good-bye |
| Karen Bass | 1962 | | young adult fiction | Graffiti Knight |
| Frédéric Bastien | 1972 | | historian, journalist | La Bataille de Londres |
| Arjun Basu | | | novelist, short stories | Squishy, Waiting for the Man |
| Andrew Battershill | | | novelist | Pillow |
| Claire Battershill | | | short stories | Circus |
| Bill Bauer | 1932 | 2010 | poet | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
| Nancy Bauer | 1934 | | arts journalist | Flora, Write This Down |
| Jeremy Bates | 1978 | | novelist (suspense/horror) | Suicide Forest |
| Eli Baxter | 1954 | | memoirist | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth |
| Kevin Bazzana | 1963 | | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould |
| Tara Beagan | 1975 | | playwright | Thy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace |
| Yves Beauchemin | 1941 | | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou |
| Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | 1945 | | novelist, playwright | |
| Doug Beardsley | 1941 | | poet | Dancing Star |
| Jeann Beattie | 1922 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Blaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps |
| Deni Ellis Béchard | 1974 | | novelist | Vandal Love |
| Peter Behrens | 1954 | | novelist, screenwriter, short-stories | The Law of Dreams |
| Henry Beissel | 1929 | | non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator | Under Coyote's Eye |
| Jennifer Bélanger | 1991 | | novelist | Menthol |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | | | poet, memoirist | This Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body |
| Ken Belford | 1946 | 2020 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains |
| Donald Bell | 1937 | 2003 | journalist, humorist | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
| William E. Bell | 1945 | 2016 | children's literature | Forbidden City |
| Winthrop Pickard Bell | 1884 | 1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
| Lesley Belleau | | | poet | Indianland |
| Martin Bellemare | | | playwright | Le chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral |
| Paul Bellini | 1959 | | screenwriter, comedy | |
| John Bemrose | 1947 | | journalist, novelist, playwright, poet | The Island Walkers |
| Gwen Benaway | | | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage |
| Djemila Benhabib | 1972 | | journalist, non-fiction | Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes |
| Nigel Bennett | 1949 | | fantasy novelist | Keeper of the King, His Father's Son |
| Roxanna Bennett | | | poet | Unmeaningable |
| David Bergen | 1957 | | novelist | The Time in Between, A Year of Lesser |
| S. Bear Bergman | 1974 | | playwright, poet | |
| David Berman | 1962 | | non-fiction | Do Good Design |
| Christophe Bernard | 1982 | | novelist | La bête creuse |
| Jovette Bernier | 1900 | 1981 | journalist, novelist, poet | Non Monsieur |
| Sarah Bernstein | 1987 | | novelist | Study for Obedience |
| Kris Bertin | | | short stories | Bad Things Happen |
| Pierre Berton | 1920 | 2004 | historian, journalist, memoirist | The National Dream, The Last Spike |
| Dennison Berwick | 1956 | | adventure travel | Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges |
| Gérard Bessette | 1920 | 2005 | novelist | Le libraire, Le Cycle |
| H. S. Bhabra | 1955 | 2000 | novelist | The Adversary, Bad Money |
| Navtej Bharati | | | poet, publisher Third Eye Press | Leela |
| Shashi Bhat | | | novelist, short stories | The Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth |
| Dave Bidini | 1963 | | journalist, non-fiction, songwriter | Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey |
| Anthony Bidulka | 1962 | | mysteries | Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu |
| Nicolas Billon | 1978 | | playwright, screenwriter | The Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher |
| Pierre Billon | 1937 | | novelist, screenwriter | |
| Brandi Bird | | | poet | The All + Flesh |
| Will R. Bird | 1891 | 1984 | novelist, non-fiction | Here Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen |
| Sandra Birdsell | 1942 | | novelist, short stories | The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf |
| Earle Birney | 1904 | 1995 | poet, novelist, playwright, short stories | David and Other Poems, Turvey |
| Charlotte Biron | 1990 | | novelist | Jardin radio |
| Carol Bishop-Gwyn | | | biographer, arts journalist | The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca |
| Bill Bissett | 1939 | | experimental poet | nobody owns th earth |
| Lise Bissonnette | 1945 | | novelist, journalist | Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus |
| Neil Bissoondath | 1955 | | novelist | A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions |
| Persimmon Blackbridge | 1951 | | non-fiction, novelist | Prozac Highway |
| George G. Blackburn | 1917 | 2006 | creative non-fiction | The Guns of Normandy |
| Marthe Blackburn | 1916 | 1991 | screenwriter, dramatist | A Scream from Silence, Beyond Forty, Le retour de l’âge |
| Peggy Blair | | | non-fiction, novelist | Lament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera |
| Marie-Claire Blais | 1939 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, La Belle Bête |
| Clark Blaise | 1940 | | novelist, short stories, memoirist | Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories |
| Cassandra Blanchard | | | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes |
| Robin Blaser | 1925 | 2009 | essayist, poet | |
| Christie Blatchford | 1951 | 2020 | journalist, writer and broadcaster | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army |
| Lance Blomgren | 1970 | | short stories, essays | Walkups, Corner Pieces |
| Patricia Blondal | 1926 | 1959 | fiction, poet | A Candle to Light the Sun |
| Lise Blouin | 1944 | | novelist | L'Ors des fous |
| Michael Blouin | 1960 | | novelist, poet | Chase and Haven, Wore Down Trust |
| Martha Blum | 1913 | 2007 | historical fiction | The Walnut Tree, The Apothecary |
| Giles Blunt | 1952 | | mysteries, screenwriter | Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season |
| Ali Blythe | | | poet | Twoism |
| Selina Boan | | | poet | Undoing Hours |
| Adam Bock | 1961 | | playwright | The Receptionist, The Drunken City |
| Dennis Bock | 1964 | | novelist, short stories | The Ash Garden |
| Maxime Raymond Bock | 1981 | | novelist, short stories | Atavismes, Les noyades secondaires |
| Michel Bock | 1971 | | historian, non-fiction | Quand la nation débordait les frontières |
| Fred Bodsworth | 1918 | 2012 | journalist, naturalist | The Last of the Curlews |
| Alice Boissonneau | 1918 | 2007 | novelist, short stories, poetry, memoirs | Eileen McCullough, There Will Be Gardens |
| Christian Bök | 1966 | | poet | Eunoia |
| Stephanie Bolster | 1969 | | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems |
| Carol Bolt | 1941 | 2000 | playwright | Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists |
| Kenneth Bonert | 1972 | | novelist, short stories | The Lion Seeker |
| Shane Book | | | poet | Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic |
| Walter Borden | 1942 | | playwright, poet | |
| Kathryn Borel | 1979 | | memoirist | Corked |
| Roo Borson | 1952 | | poet | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida |
| Monique Bosco | 1927 | 2007 | journalist, novelist, poet, short stories | La femme de Loth |
| Gérard Bouchard | 1943 | | non-fiction, novelist | Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde |
| Michel Marc Bouchard | 1958 | | playwright | Lilies, The Orphan Muses |
| Paul Bouchard | 1908 | 1997 | journalist | |
| Eddy Boudel Tan | | | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide |
| Marsha Boulton | 1952 | | humorist, journalist | Letters from the Country |
| Hédi Bouraoui | 1932 | | poet, novelist | Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes |
| Pierre Bourgault | 1934 | 2003 | essayist, journalist | |
| Arthur Bourinot | 1893 | 1969 | poet | Under the Sun |
| Pan Bouyoucas | 1946 | | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea |
| Gail Bowen | 1942 | | novelist, playwright | Joanne Kilbourn series |
| George Bowering | 1935 | | biographer, novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water |
| Marilyn Bowering | 1949 | | poet, novelist, playwright | Visible Worlds, Autobiography |
| Cedar Bowers | | | novelist, short stories | Astra |
| Bonnie Bowman | | | novelist | Skin |
| Randy Boyagoda | 1976 | | novelist, non-fiction | Governor of the Northern Province |
| David Boyd | 1951 | | children's literature | Bottom Drawer |
| George Boyd | 1952 | 2020 | playwright, screenwriter | Consecrated Ground |
| Joseph Boyden | 1966 | | novelist, short stories | Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda |
| Frances Boyle | | | poet, short stories | Seeking Shade |
| Harry J. Boyle | 1915 | 2005 | humorist, novelist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
| D. M. Bradford | | | poet | Dream of No One But Myself |
| Karleen Bradford | 1936 | | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves |
| Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite | 1963 | 2008 | essayist, novelist, poet | |
| Max Braithwaite | 1911 | 1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
| Shannon Bramer | 1973 | | poet | The Refrigerator Memory |
| Alan Bradley | 1938 | | mystery | Flavia de Luce series |
| Dionne Brand | 1953 | | essayist, novelist, poet | What We All Long For, Land to Light On |
| Di Brandt | 1952 | | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care |
| Beth Brant | 1941 | 2015 | | |
| André Brassard | 1946 | | screenwriter | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard |
| Marie Brassard | | | playwright | |
| Jacques Brault | 1933 | | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin |
| Lois Braun | 1949 | | short stories | A Stone Watermelon |
| Morwyn Brebner | | | playwright, television writer | Music for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope, Rookie Blue |
| Brian Brett | 1950 | | novelist, memoirist, poet | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden |
| Krista Bridge | | | novelist, short stories | The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls |
| Robert Bringhurst | 1946 | | poet, author, typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major |
| Barry Broadfoot | 1926 | 2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
| Hélène Brodeur | 1923 | 2010 | historical fiction | Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario |
| Eve Brodlique | 1867 | 1949 | author, journalist | A Training School for Lovers |
| David Bromige | 1933 | 2009 | poet | My Poetry |
| Frances Brooke | 1724 | 1789 | novelist, essayist | The History of Emily Montague |
| Bertram Brooker | 1888 | 1955 | novelist, artist | Think of the Earth |
| Carellin Brooks | | | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach |
| Nicole Brossard | 1943 | | novelist, poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse |
| Chrystine Brouillet | 1958 | | novelist, children's literature | |
| Sigmund Brouwer | 1959 | | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! |
| Ian Brown | 1954 | | journalist | Man Overboard, The Boy in the Moon |
| Loranne Brown | 1955 | | novelist, short stories | The Handless Maiden |
| William J. Bruce III | 1980 | | author | Penholder, Introduction for 150th Anniversary Edition of Demons |
| Charles Tory Bruce | 1906 | 1971 | poet, novelist, journalist | The Mulgrave Road |
| Julie Bruck | 1957 | | poet | The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch |
| Tyler Brûlé | 1968 | | journalist | |
| Gaétan Brulotte | 1945 | | academic, novelist, playwright, short stories | |
| Nick Brune | 1952 | | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture |
| Carol Bruneau | 1956 | | novelist | Purple for Sky |
| Louis-Ovide Brunet | 1826 | 1876 | botany | |
| Michel Brunet | 1917 | 1985 | historian | Les Canadiens après la conquête |
| Cathy Marie Buchanan | 1963 | | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls |
| Ernest Buckler | 1908 | 1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
| Margaret Buffie | 1945 | | children's literature | Who Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher |
| Gilbert Buote | 1833 | 1904 | journalist | |
| Kayt Burgess | | | novelist | Heidegger Stairwell |
| Tony Burgess | 1959 | | novelist, screenwriter | Pontypool Changes Everything |
| Nathan Burgoine | | | novelist, short stories | Light |
| Ronnie Burkett | 1957 | | playwright | Tinka's New Dress |
| Mabel Burkholder | 1881 | 1973 | historian | Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories |
| Bonnie Burnard | 1945 | 2017 | novelist | A Good House |
| Murdoch Burnett | 1953 | 2015 | poet | Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans |
| Richard Burnett | | | journalist | |
| Lawrence J. Burpee | 1873 | 1946 | historian | The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History |
| Mick Burrs | 1940 | 2021 | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob |
| Frank Christopher Busch | 1978 | | novelist | Grey Eyes |
| Catherine Bush | 1961 | | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement |
| Arthur de Bussières | 1877 | 1913 | poet | Les Bengalis |
| Sharon Butala | 1940 | | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning |
| Alec Butler | 1959 | | playwright | Black Friday |
| Michelle Butler Hallett | 1971 | | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | This Marlowe, Constant Nobody |

## C

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Charmaine Cadeau | | | poet | Placeholder |
| Cody Caetano | | | memoirist | Half-Bads in White Regalia |
| Frank Oliver Call | 1878 | 1956 | poet, travel | Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth |
| Barry Callaghan | 1937 | | novelist, journalist | Barrelhouse Kings |
| Morley Callaghan | 1903 | 1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
| Anne Cameron | 1938 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Daughters of Copper Woman |
| Elspeth Cameron | 1943 | | biographer | No Previous Experience |
| George Frederick Cameron | 1854 | 1885 | poet, lawyer, journalist | Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta) |
| Silver Donald Cameron | 1937 | 2020 | non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist | Sailing Away From Winter |
| Curtis Campbell | | | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay |
| Grace Campbell | 1895 | 1963 | novelist | Thorn-apple Tree |
| Nicola I. Campbell | | | poetry, children's literature, memoir | Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe |
| Natalee Caple | 1970 | | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World |
| Pat Capponi | 1949 | 2020 | memoirist, mystery novelist | Upstairs in the Crazy House |
| Cliff Cardinal | | | playwright | The Land Acknowledgement |
| Opal Carew | 1956 | | romantic novelist | His To Possess |
| Dave Carley | 1953 | | playwright | Writing With Our Feet |
| Louis Carmain | 1983 | | novelist | Guano |
| Bliss Carman | 1861 | 1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
| Jean-François Caron | 1978 | | poet, novelist | De bois debout |
| Louis Caron | 1942 | | novelist, television | L'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume |
| David Carpenter | 1941 | | novelist, poet, essayist | A Hunter's Confession |
| Emily Carr | 1871 | 1945 | novelist, short stories | Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands |
| Roch Carrier | 1937 | | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey |
| Anne Carson | 1950 | | poet | Autobiography of Red |
| Anne Laurel Carter | 1953 | | children's fiction | The Shepherd's Granddaughter |
| Allan Casey | | | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada |
| Kate Cayley | | | novelist, dramatist, poet | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova |
| Denys Chabot | 1945 | | novelist, historian | L'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire |
| Sébastien Chabot | 1976 | | novelist | Noir métal |
| Éric Chacour | 1983 | | novelist | Ce que je sais de toi |
| Perry Chafe | 1969 | | television writer, novelist | Republic of Doyle, Closer by Sea |
| Robert Chafe | 1971 | | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence |
| Soufiane Chakkouche | 1977 | | novelist | Zahra |
| Francis Chalifour | 1977 | | creative non-fiction | After |
| Gillian Chan | 1954 | | children's literature | Glory Days and Other Stories |
| Robert Charbonneau | 1911 | 1967 | novelist | Ils posséderont la terre, Fontile |
| David Chariandy | 1969 | | novelist | Soucouyant, Brother |
| Lyne Charlebois | | | screenwriter | Borderline |
| Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682 | 1761 | historian | Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France |
| Normand Chaurette | 1954 | | playwright | Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier |
| Évelyne de la Chenelière | 1975 | | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar |
| Herménégilde Chiasson | 1946 | | poet, playwright | Conversations |
| Philip Child | 1898 | 1978 | novelist | Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time |
| Anne Chislett | 1942 | | playwright | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box |
| Ann Y. K. Choi | | | author | Kay's Lucky Coin Variety |
| Ins Choi | 1974 | | playwright | Kim's Convenience |
| Gabriel Cholette | | | memoirist | Carnets de l'underground |
| Corinna Chong | | | novelist, short stories | Bad Land |
| Denise Chong | 1953 | | memoirist | The Concubine's Children |
| Kevin Chong | 1975 | | novelist, memoirist | My Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity |
| Wayson Choy | 1939 | 2019 | novelist, memoirist | The Jade Peony, All That Matters, Paper Shadows |
| Lesley Choyce | 1951 | | poet, novelist, non-fiction | The Republic of Nothing |
| Michael Christie | | | short stories | The Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die |
| Jane Christmas | 1954 | | travel, memoirist | And Then There Were Nuns |
| S. D. Chrostowska | | | novelist, non-fiction, aphorist | Permission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book |
| Eliza Clark | 1963 | | novelist | Bite the Stars |
| Greg Clark | 1892 | 1977 | humorist | War Stories |
| Joan Clark | 1934 | 2023 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires |
| Austin Clarke | 1934 | 2016 | novelist | The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack |
| George Elliott Clarke | 1960 | | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls, George and Rue, Black |
| Stéfanie Clermont | 1988 | | novelist | Le jeu de la musique |
| David Clerson | 1978 | | novelist | Frères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête |
| Mabel Clint | 1874 | 1939 | novelist, nurse | Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister |
| Fabien Cloutier | 1976 | | dramatist | Pour réussir un poulet |
| Lynn Coady | 1970 | | novelist | Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven, Hellgoing |
| Mark Coakley | | | true crime | Tip and Trade |
| Devon Code | | | novelist, short stories | In a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| Lisa Codrington | | | playwright | Cast Iron, Up the Garden Path |
| Fred Cogswell | 1917 | 2004 | poet | |
| Leonard Cohen | 1934 | 2016 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter | Beautiful Losers |
| Matt Cohen | 1942 | 1999 | novelist | Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After |
| Susan G. Cole | 1952 | | journalist | Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography |
| Trevor Cole | 1960 | | novelist | The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean |
| Anne Coleman | | | creative non-fiction | I'll Tell You a Secret |
| Layne Coleman | | | playwright | Blue City Slammers |
| Victor Coleman | 1944 | | poet | |
| Don Coles | 1927 | 2017 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World |
| Ruth Collie | 1888 | 1936 | poet | Known as the Poem a Day Lady |
| John Robert Colombo | 1936 | | poet, reference book compiler | Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References |
| Daria Colonna | 1989 | | poet | Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse |
| Wayde Compton | 1972 | | poet, essays, short fiction | |
| Bill Conall | | | novelist, humorist | The Promised Land |
| Christy Ann Conlin | | | novelist, short stories | Heave, The Memento, Watermark |
| Jan Conn | 1952 | | poet, insect geneticist | South of the Tudo Bem Cafe |
| Karen Connelly | 1969 | | travel, novelist, poet | Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage |
| Kevin Connolly | 1962 | | poet, editor | Drift, Revolver |
| Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon) | 1860 | 1937 | novelist, essayist | The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot |
| Darla Contois | | | playwright | The War Being Waged |
| George Ramsay Cook | 1931 | 2016 | historian | |
| Hugh Cook | 1942 | | novelist | |
| Michael Cook | 1933 | 1994 | playwright | Jacob's Wake |
| Tim Cook | 1971 | | military historian | Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918, No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War |
| Dennis Cooley | 1944 | | poet | Irene |
| Beverley Cooper | | | playwright | Thin Ice, Innocence Lost |
| Douglas Cooper | 1960 | | novelist | Amnesia, Delirium |
| Paige Cooper | | | short stories | Zolitude |
| Ann Copeland | 1932 | | short stories | The Golden Thread |
| Judith Copithorne | 1939 | | poet | |
| Carole Corbeil | 1952 | 2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
| Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | 1985 | | playwright | Scratch |
| Amanda Cordner | | | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| David Cormican | 1981 | | screenwriter, producer | Northern Rescue, Réveillon |
| Michael Cormican | 1948 | 2023 | author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse | A Long Way From Tipperary |
| Thomas B. Costain | 1885 | 1965 | historical fiction, non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice |
| Lawrence Moore Cosgrave | 1890 | 1971 | non-fiction | Afterthoughts of Armageddon |
| Douglas Coupland | 1961 | | novelist | Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma |
| Kevin Courrier | 1954 | 2018 | biographer, music and film critic | Randy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream |
| Maya Cousineau Mollen | 1975 | | poet | Bréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen |
| Saros Cowasjee | 1931 | 2019 | novelist | Goodbye to Elsa |
| Hugh Cowan | 1867 | 1943 | historian | Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814 |
| James Alexander Cowan | 1901 | 1978 | writer, columnist | |
| Daniel Allen Cox | 1976 | | novelist | Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In |
| Ivan Coyote | 1969 | | spoken-word poet, columnist | Bow Grip |
| Archie Crail | 1944 | | playwright, short stories | Exile, The Bonus Deal |
| Isabella Valancy Crawford | 1846 | 1887 | poet, freelance | Old Spookses' Pass |
| Donald Creighton | 1902 | 1979 | historian | John A. Macdonald |
| Luella Creighton | 1901 | 1996 | historical fiction, children's non-fiction | High Bright Buggy Wheels |
| Octave Crémazie | 1827 | 1879 | poet | |
| Eva Crocker | | | short stories | Barrelling Forward |
| Lynn Crosbie | 1963 | | poet, novelist | Life Is About Losing Everything |
| Caleigh Crow | | | playwright | There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow |
| Lorna Crozier | 1948 | | poet | Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light |
| Michael Crummey | 1965 | | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents |
| Nancy Jo Cullen | | | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary |
| Alan Cumyn | 1960 | | novelist | The Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia |
| Peter Cureton | 1965 | 1994 | playwright | Passages |
| Andrea Curtis | | | creative non-fiction | Into the Blue |
| Herb Curtis | 1949 | | novelist, humorist | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles |
| Kayla Czaga | 1989 | | poet | For Your Safety Please Hold On |

## D

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Antonio D'Alfonso | 1953 | | poet, novelist, bilingual writer | The Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout |
| Michel Dallaire | 1957 | 2017 | novelist, poet | Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne |
| Roméo Dallaire | 1946 | | documentarian, memoirist, activist | Shake Hands with the Devil, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children |
| Anne Dandurand | 1953 | | novelist | |
| Louis Dantin | 1865 | 1945 | poet, critic | Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques |
| Jean-Paul Daoust | 1946 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva |
| Peter Darbyshire | | | novelist | Please |
| Jill Daum | | | playwright | Forget About Tomorrow |
| Frank Davey | 1940 | | poet | |
| Craig Davidson | 1976 | | novelist, short stories | Rust and Bone, Cataract City |
| True Davidson | 1901 | 1978 | poet, fiction, non-fiction | The Golden Strings |
| Blodwen Davies | 1897 | 1966 | historian | A Study of Tom Thomson |
| Lynn Davies | 1954 | | poet | The Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools |
| Robertson Davies | 1913 | 1995 | novelist | Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone |
| Lauren B. Davis | 1955 | | novelist, short stories | Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market |
| Amber Dawn | | | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa |
| Caroline Dawson | 1979 | 2024 | novelist, poet, children's literature | Là où je me terre |
| Nicholas Dawson | 1982 | | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure |
| Frank Parker Day | 1881 | 1950 | novelist | Rockbound, John Paul's Rock |
| Claire Dé | 1953 | | novelist, short stories | Bonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel |
| Alfred Duclos DeCelles | 1843 | 1925 | journalist, librarian | The 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion |
| Mazo de la Roche | 1879 | 1961 | novelist | Jalna |
| Charles de Lint | 1951 | | fantasy | |
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | | | short stories, poet | How to Get Along With Women |
| Sadiqa de Meijer | 1977 | | short stories, poet | Leaving Howe Island |
| James de Mille | 1833 | 1880 | novelist | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder |
| Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929–1939 |
| Marq de Villiers | 1940 | | journalist, magazine editor, science | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource |
| Anthony de Sa | | | novelist, short stories | Barnacle Love |
| Patrick deWitt | 1975 | | novelist | The Sisters Brothers |
| Michael Delisle | 1959 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père |
| Martine Delvaux | 1968 | | novelist, non-fiction | Blanc dehors |
| David Demchuk | | | playwright, novelist | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise |
| Sandra Dempsey | 1956 | | | |
| Barry Dempster | 1952 | | | |
| Dennis Denisoff | | | novelist, poet, academic | Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories |
| Randall Denley | | | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate |
| Adebe DeRango-Adem | | | poet | Terra Incognita, Vox Humana |
| Martine Desjardins | 1957 | | novelist | Le Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium |
| Roxane Desjardins | 1991 | | writer, editor | Ciseaux |
| Léo-Paul Desrosiers | 1896 | 1967 | journalist, novelist | Les Engagés du Grand Portage |
| Henriette Dessaulles | 1860 | 1946 | journalist, diarist | Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881 |
| William Deverell | 1937 | | mysteries, screenwriter | Trial of Passion, April Fool |
| Alexander Dewdney | 1941 | | computer science, philosophy | |
| Christopher Dewdney | 1951 | | | |
| Selwyn Hanington Dewdney | 1909 | 1979 | novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author | Wind Without Rain |
| Myrna Dey | | | novelist, journalist | Extensions |
| Ranj Dhaliwal | 1976 | | novelist | Daaku, The Gangster's Life |
| Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | 1949 | 2019 | poet | The Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise |
| David Di Giovanni | | | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| Mary di Michele | 1949 | | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love |
| Ann Diamond | 1951 | | poet, novelist, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye |
| Don Dickinson | 1947 | | novelist, short stories | Blue Husbands, The Crew |
| Nicolas Dickner | 1972 | | novelist, short stories | Nikolski |
| Cherie Dimaline | 1975 | | novelist, short stories | The Marrow Thieves |
| Christopher DiRaddo | 1974 | | novelist | The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way |
| Dorothy Dittrich | | | playwright | The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher |
| Sean Dixon | | | playwright | 1492, A God in Need of Help |
| Sandra Djwa | 1939 | | biography, literary criticism | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page |
| Kildare Dobbs | 1923 | 2013 | short stories | |
| Farzana Doctor | | | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement |
| Cory Doctorow | 1971 | | science fiction | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother |
| Jeramy Dodds | 1974 | | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds |
| M. T. Dohaney | 1930 | | novelist, short stories | The Corrigan Women |
| Bob Dolman | 1949 | | screenwriter | SCTV |
| Don Domanski | 1950 | 2020 | | |
| Fernand Dorais | 1928 | 2003 | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
| Candas Jane Dorsey | 1952 | | science fiction | Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth |
| Clive Doucet | 1946 | | |
| Lily Dougall | 1858 | 1923 | author | A Question of Faith |
| Arthur Doughty | 1860 | 1936 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
| Orville Lloyd Douglas | 1976 | | poet | |
| James Doull | 1918 | 2001 | philosopher | |
| Philippa Dowding | | | children's literature | Oculum, Firefly |
| Glen Downey | 1969 | | children's literature | |
| Brian Doyle | 1935 | | young adult fiction | |
| Brian Drader | 1960 | | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals |
| Stan Dragland | 1942 | 2022 | fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays | Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys |
| Sylvie Drapeau | 1962 | | novelist | Le Fleuve, La Terre |
| Don Druick | 1945 | | playwright | Where Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes |
| William Henry Drummond | 1854 | 1907 | poet | The Habitant |
| Klara du Plessis | | | poet | Ekke |
| Marcel Dubé | 1930 | 2016 | | |
| Peter Dubé | | | novelist, short stories | Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky |
| Réjean Ducharme | 1941 | 2017 | | |
| Louis Dudek | 1918 | 2001 | poet | |
| Margaret Duley | 1894 | 1968 | novelist | The Eyes of the Gull |
| Dawn Dumont | | | novelist, short stories | Nobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run |
| Dave Duncan | 1933 | 2018 | | |
| Sandy Frances Duncan | 1942 | | novels, short fiction, mysteries | Cariboo Runaway, Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island |
| Sara Jeannette Duncan | 1861 | 1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
| Warren Dunford | 1963 | | novelist | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer |
| Nina Dunic | | | short stories, novelist | The Clarion |
| Norma Dunning | | | short stories | Annie Muktuk and Other Stories |
| Kristyn Dunnion | 1969 | | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles |
| Éric Dupont | 1970 | | novelist | La Logeuse, La fiancée américaine |
| Douglas Durkin | 1884 | 1967 | novelist, screenwriter | The Magpie |

## E

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Lawrence Earl | 1915 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass |
| Edith Maude Eaton | 1865 | 1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
| Evelyn Eaton | 1902 | 1983 | novelist, poet | Quietly My Captain Waits |
| Chris Eaton | 1971 | | novelist, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect |
| Winnifred Eaton | 1875 | 1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
| James Eayrs | 1926 | 2021 | historian | In Defence of Canada |
| Kim Echlin | 1955 | | novelist | The Disappeared |
| David Eddie | | | novelist, humorist | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control |
| Esi Edugyan | 1978 | | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black |
| Caterina Edwards | 1948 | | novelist, playwright, short story writer | The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife |
| Modris Eksteins | 1943 | | historian | Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty |
| Francesca Ekwuyasi | | | novelist | Butter Honey Pig Bread |
| Rima Elkouri | | | novelist, journalist | Manam |
| George Elliott | 1923 | 1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
| Deborah Ellis | 1960 | | non-fiction, young adult fiction | The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop |
| Sarah Ellis | 1952 | | children's literature | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks |
| Louis Émond | 1969 | | novelist | The Manuscript |
| Marina Endicott | 1958 | | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference |
| Howard Engel | 1931 | 2019 | mysteries | The Suicide Murders |
| Marian Engel | 1933 | 1985 | novelist | Bear |
| Yves Engler | 1979 | | politics, activist | Playing Left Wing |
| Sharon English | 1965 | | short stories | Zero Gravity |
| Karen Enns | | | poet | That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics |
| Steven Erikson | 1959 | | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series |
| Ann Eriksson | 1956 | | novelist | In the Hands of Anubis |
| Thom Ernst | | | film critic, memoirist | The Wild Boy of Waubamik |
| Gloria Escomel | 1941 | | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion |
| Robin Esrock | 1974 | | travel writer | The Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List |
| Michael Estok | 1939 | 1989 | poet | A Plague Year Journal |
| Hubert Evans | 1892 | 1986 | novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature | Mist on the River |
| Jon Evans | 1973 | | novelist | Dark Places |
| Stanley Evans | 1931 | | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |

## F

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Emil Fackenheim | 1916 | 2003 | historian, philosopher | |
| Jean Mohsen Fahmy | 1942 | | novelist, short stories, literary criticism | L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée |
| Terry Fallis | 1959 | | humorist | The Best Laid Plans |
| Alain Farah | 1979 | | novelist, poet | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne |
| Abla Farhoud | 1945 | 2021 | novelist, playwright | Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince |
| Edmundo Farolan | 1943 | 2023 | poet, playwright, novelist | Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer |
| Brian Fawcett | 1944 | 2022 | novelist, non-fiction | Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow |
| Charles Fenerty | 1821 | 1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
| Linda Rui Feng | | | novelist | Swimming Back to Trout River |
| Ian Ferguson | | | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses |
| Max Ferguson | 1924 | 2013 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
| Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow | 1947 | | novelist, playwright | |
| Will Ferguson | 1964 | | humorist, novelist, travel writer | Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419 |
| Raoul Fernandes | | | poet | Transmitter and Receiver |
| Paola Ferrante | | | poet, short stories | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals |
| Jacques Ferron | 1921 | 1985 | playwright | |
| Madeleine Ferron | 1922 | 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
| George Fetherling | 1949 | | | |
| Charlotte Fielden | 1932 | 2021 | | |
| Joy Fielding | 1945 | | novelist | |
| Connie Fife | 1961 | 2017 | poet | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World |
| Timothy Findley | 1930 | 2002 | novelist, dramatist, short stories | The Wars, The Piano Man's Daughter |
| Lois Fine | | | playwright | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week |
| Larry Fineberg | 1945 | | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve |
| Joe Fiorito | 1948 | | novelist, columnist, memoirist | The Song Beneath the Ice |
| Sheree Fitch | 1956 | | poet, novelist, children's fiction | Mabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies |
| James FitzGerald | | | non-fiction | Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past |
| Judith Fitzgerald | 1952 | 2015 | | |
| Polly Fleck | 1933 | 2019 | poet | The Chinese Execution |
| Anne Fleming | 1964 | | | |
| May Agnes Fleming | 1840 | 1880 | novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
| Cynthia Flood | 1940 | | novelist, short stories | My Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy |
| Lisa Foad | | | short stories, journalist | The Night Is a Mouth |
| Waawaate Fobister | | | playwright | Agokwe |
| Jacques Folch-Ribas | 1928 | | novelist | Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur |
| Naomi Fontaine | 1987 | | novelist | Kuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni |
| Dennis Foon | 1951 | | | |
| Charles Foran | 1960 | | novelist | Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire |
| John-James Ford | 1972 | | | |
| Paul Serge Forest | | | novelist | Tout est ori |
| André Forget | | | novelist | In the City of Pigs |
| Helen Forrester | 1919 | 2011 | novelist | |
| Dominique Fortier | 1972 | | novelist | Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer |
| Carley Fortune | 1985 | | novelist | Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake |
| Cecil Foster | 1954 | | | |
| Marion Foster | 1924 | 1997 | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender |
| Martin Fournier | 1954 | | historian, young adult literature | The Adventures of Radisson |
| Roger Fournier | 1929 | 2012 | novelist, screenwriter | Le cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi |
| Barbara Fradkin | | | | |
| Tess Fragoulis | | | | |
| Brian Francis | 1971 | | novelist | Fruit |
| Brad Fraser | 1959 | | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love |
| John Anderson Fraser | 1866 | 1960 | | |
| Keath Fraser | 1944 | | | |
| Raymond Fraser | 1941 | 2018 | | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life |
| Sylvia Fraser | 1935 | | novelist | |
| Louis Fréchette | 1839 | 1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
| Pauline Fréchette | 1889 | 1943 | poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun | |
| David French | 1939 | 2010 | playwright | |
| Maida Parlow French | | | novelist, artist, biographer | |
| Kathy Friedman | | | short stories | All the Shining People |
| Patrick Friesen | 1946 | | | |
| Mark Frutkin | 1948 | | | |
| Northrop Frye | 1912 | 1991 | critic | Anatomy of Criticism |
| Kim Fu | 1987 | | novelist | For Today I Am a Boy |
| Robert Fulford | 1932 | | journalist | |
| Janine Fuller | 1958 | | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
| Pik-Shuen Fung | | | novelist | Ghost Forest |
| Wes Funk | 1969 | 2015 | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage |
| Nicola Furlong | | | | |

## G

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Brendan Gall | 1978 | | playwright, screenwriter | Wide Awake Hearts |
| Mavis Gallant | 1922 | 2014 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
| Steven Galloway | 1975 | | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| François-Xavier Garneau | 1809 | 1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
| Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939 |
| Hugh Garner | 1913 | 1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
| Alfred Garrioch | 1848 | 1934 | novelist | First Furrows |
| Elyse Gasco | 1967 | | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? |
| Bill Gaston | 1953 | | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite |
| C. E. Gatchalian | 1974 | | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time |
| Connie Gault | 1949 | | playwright, novelist, short stories | Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty |
| Daniel Gawthrop | 1963 | | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter |
| Pauline Gedge | 1945 | | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions |
| John Geiger | | | non-fiction author | The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition |
| Karoline Georges | 1970 | | novelist, poet | De synthèse |
| Shree Ghatage | 1957 | | novelist, short story writer | Awake When All the World Is Asleep |
| Camilla Gibb | 1968 | | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly |
| John Murray Gibbon | 1875 | 1952 | non-fiction, novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
| Chantal Gibson | | | poet | How She Read |
| Douglas Gibson | 1943 | | editor, publisher, memoirist | Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others |
| Graeme Gibson | 1934 | 2019 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
| Margaret Gibson | 1948 | 2006 | novelist, short stories | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
| William Gibson | 1948 | | science fiction | Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties |
| Sky Gilbert | 1952 | | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space |
| Charlotte Gill | | | short stories, non-fiction | Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe |
| John Patrick Gillese | 1926 | 1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
| Curtis Gillespie | 1960 | | short stories, non-fiction, novels | The Progress of an Object in Motion, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast |
| David Gilmour | 1949 | | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
| M-E Girard | | | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up |
| Malcolm Gladwell | 1963 | | journalist, sociologist | The Tipping Point, Outliers, Talking to Strangers |
| Joanna Glass | 1936 | | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying |
| John Glassco | 1909 | 1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
| Paul Glennon | | | short stories, young adult literature | The Dodecahedron, Bookweird |
| Susan Glickman | 1953 | | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape |
| Douglas Glover | 1948 | | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N |
| Jacques Godbout | 1933 | | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine |
| Dave Godfrey | 1938 | 2015 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
| Philip H. Godsell | 1889 | 1961 | writer | Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company |
| Glenda Goertzen | 1967 | | novelist | The Prairie Dogs |
| Nora Gold | 1952 | | writer | Fields of Exile, The Dead Man, Marrow And Other Stories,18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas) |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1794 | 1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
| Gabriella Goliger | 1949 | | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped |
| Leona Gom | 1946 | | novelist, mysteries, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame |
| Michelle Good | | | novelist | Five Little Indians |
| Alison Gordon | 1943 | 2015 | sports journalist, mysteries | The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball |
| Charles Gordon | 1940 | | newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist | The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip |
| Phyllis Gotlieb | 1926 | 2009 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
| Sondra Gotlieb | 1936 | | newspaper columnist | True Confections |
| Hiromi Goto | 1966 | | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child |
| John Gould | | | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions |
| Nora Gould | | | poet | I see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah |
| George R. D. Goulet | 1933 | | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
| Terry Goulet | 1934 | | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied (researcher), The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
| Katherine Govier | 1948 | | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
| Lee Gowan | 1961 | | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy |
| Barbara Gowdy | 1950 | | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone |
| Wayne Grady | 1948 | | novelist, memoir, science | Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café |
| Gwethalyn Graham | 1913 | 1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
| Neile Graham | 1958 | | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory |
| Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874 | 1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
| Jack Granatstein | 1939 | | historian | |
| Linda Granfield | 1950 | | children's literature | In Flanders Fields |
| E. M. Granger Bennett | | 1988 | historical fiction | Short of the Glory |
| George Grant | 1918 | 1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
| Hilda Kay Grant | 1910 | 1996 | writer, artist | The Salt Box |
| Jessica Grant | 1972 | | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise |
| Élise Gravel | 1977 | | children's literature, graphic novels | Le Grand Antonio, La clé à molette |
| François Gravel | 1951 | | novelist | Ostende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker |
| Charlotte Gray | 1948 | | novelist, non-fiction | Mrs. King |
| R. W. Gray | | | short stories | Crisp, Entropic |
| Ethel Grayson | 1890 | 1980 | novelist, poet | |
| Lowell Green | 1936 | | history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism | Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada! |
| Nick Green | | | playwright | Body Politic |
| Robert Joseph Greene | 1973 | | children's literature, romantic fiction | This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World |
| Ed Greenwood | 1959 | | fantasy | Forgotten Realms |
| Darren Greer | 1968 | | novelist | Still Life with June, Just Beneath My Skin |
| James Gregor | | | novelist | Going Dutch |
| Doris Gregory | | | autobiographer | How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story |
| Daniel Grenier | 1980 | | novelist, short stories | L’année la plus longue |
| Taras Grescoe | | | creative non-fiction | Sacré Blues |
| Grey Owl | 1888 | 1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
| Francis William Grey | 1860 | 1939 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Curé of St. Philippe |
| Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894 | 1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
| G. A. Grisenthwaite | | | novelist, short stories, poet | Home Waltz |
| Lionel Groulx | 1878 | 1967 | historian | The Call of the Race |
| Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879 | 1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
| Brett Josef Grubisic | 1963 | | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities |
| Katia Grubisic | 1978 | | poet, short stories | what if red ran out |
| Agnès Gruda | | | journalist, short story writer | Onze petites trahisons |
| Christian Guay-Poliquin | 1982 | | novelist | Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige |
| Germaine Guèvremont | 1893 | 1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
| Genni Gunn | 1949 | | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless |
| Kristjana Gunnars | 1948 | | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps |
| Stephen Guppy | 1951 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy |
| David Gurr | 1936 | | novelist, playwright | The Ring Master |
| Ralph Gustafson | 1909 | 1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
| Don Gutteridge | 1937 | | poet, novelist | |
| Guy Lawson | 1963 | | journalist | War Dogs |
| Sandra Gwyn | 1935 | 2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |

## H

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Samra Habib | | | photographer, memoirist | We Have Always Been Here |
| Chris Hadfield | 1959 | | scientist, memoirist, essayist, musician | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station |
| Rawi Hage | 1964 | | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach, Carnival |
| Joan Haggerty | 1940 | | | |
| Medina Hahn | | | playwright | Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience |
| Roderick Haig-Brown | 1908 | 1976 | | |
| Ken Haigh | 1962 | | memoirist | Under the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury |
| Arthur Hailey | 1920 | 2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | 1796 | 1865 | | The Clockmaker |
| Phil Hall | 1953 | | poet | Killdeer |
| Louis Hamelin | 1959 | | novelist, short stories, literary critic | La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx |
| Ian Hamilton | 1946 | | journalist, mysteries | The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan |
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | 1954 | | | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger |
| Lyn Hancock | 1938 | | | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon |
| Angeline Hango | 1909 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Truthfully Yours |
| Catherine Hanrahan | | | novelist | Lost Girls and Love Hotels |
| Kevin Hardcastle | 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Debris |
| Robin Hardy | 1952 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Call of the Wendigo, Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood |
| Robyn Harding | 1969 | | novelist | The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party |
| Robert Harlow | 1923 | | novelist | Scann |
| Liz Harmer | | | novelist | The Amateurs |
| Jennica Harper | | | poet, television writer | Wood, Bounce House, Jann |
| Alexander Harris | 1805 | 1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
| Claire Harris | 1937 | 2018 | | |
| Dorothy Joan Harris | 1931 | | children's literature | |
| Marjorie Harris | 1937 | | gardening | Seasons of My Garden |
| Michael Harris | 1944 | | poet | Circus |
| Michael Harris | 1948 | | journalist | Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall |
| Michael Harris | 1980 | | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection |
| Keith Harrison | 1945 | 2019 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
| Jill Hartman | 1974 | | | |
| Diana Hartog | 1942 | | poet, novelist | Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts |
| Kristen den Hartog | 1965 | | | |
| Kenneth J. Harvey | 1962 | | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco |
| Kim Senklip Harvey | | | playwright | Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story |
| Elisabeth Harvor | 1936 | | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart |
| Erum Shazia Hasan | | | novelist | We Meant Well |
| Liedewy Hawke | | | translator | |
| Barbara Haworth-Attard | 1953 | | | |
| Elizabeth Hay | 1951 | | novelist, non-fiction | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana |
| Elliott Hayes | 1956 | 1994 | | |
| Matthew Hays | | | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers |
| Steven Hayward | | | novelist, short stories | Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke |
| Charles Heavysege | 1816 | 1876 | poet | Saul |
| Anne Hébert | 1916 | 2000 | novelist, poet, short stories, novellas | Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent |
| Maurice Hébert | 1888 | 1960 | novelist, poet | Le Cycle de Don Juan |
| Steven Heighton | 1961 | 2022 | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer |
| Sydney Hegele | | | short stories | The Pump |
| William C. Heine | 1919 | 1991 | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian |
| Matthew Heiti | | | novelist, screenwriter, playwright | Son of the Sunshine, The City Still Breathing |
| Tyler Hellard | | | novelist | Searching for Terry Punchout |
| Michael Helm | 1961 | | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things |
| David Helwig | 1938 | 2018 | novelist, poet | Figures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter |
| Maggie Helwig | 1961 | | | |
| Louis Hémon | 1880 | 1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
| Lee Henderson | | | novelist, short stories | The Broken Record Technique, The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| Maurice Henrie | 1936 | | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | Le Balcon dans le ciel |
| Sarah Henstra | | | novelist | Mad Miss Mimic, The Red Word |
| John Herbert | 1926 | 2001 | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes |
| Sarah Herbert | 1824 | 1846 | publisher, writer, poet | The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems |
| Catherine Hernandez | | | playwright, novelist | Scarborough |
| Nicholas Herring | | | novelist | Some Hellish |
| Trevor Herriot | | | naturalist | River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds |
| Benjamin Hertwig | | | poet | Slow War |
| Sheila Heti | 1976 | | novelist, short stories | How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor |
| Paul Hiebert | 1892 | 1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
| Tomson Highway | 1951 | | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| Lawrence Hill | 1957 | | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes |
| Ernest Hillen | | | journalist, memoirist | The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies |
| Robert Hilles | 1951 | | poet and novelist | Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild |
| Jack Hodgins | 1938 | | | |
| Robert Hogg | 1942 | | poet, critic | The Connexions |
| Nadia L. Hohn | | | children's literature | Malaika's Costume |
| Susan Holbrook | | | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes |
| Arthur Holden | 1959 | | playwright, television | Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob |
| Clive Holden | | | poet | Trains of Winnipeg |
| Claire Holden Rothman | 1958 | | novelist, short stories | The Heart Specialist, My October |
| Pauline Holdstock | | | | |
| Norah M. Holland | 1876 | 1925 | poet, playwright, journalist, editor | Spun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems |
| Greg Hollingshead | 1947 | | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer |
| Margaret Hollingsworth | 1942 | | playwright | Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands |
| Michael Hollingsworth | 1950 | | playwright | The History of the Village of the Small Huts |
| Nancy Holmes | 1959 | | poet | The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree |
| Margaret Lindsay Holton (a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte) | 1955 | | novelist, short stories, poet, social history | Economic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs |
| David Homel | 1952 | | novelist, translator | Electrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown |
| Hugh Hood | 1928 | 2000 | novelist | The New Age |
| Cornelia Hoogland | 1952 | | | |
| Hilda Mary Hooke | 1898 | 1978 | poet, dramatist | |
| Emma Hooper | 1980 | | novelist | Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs |
| Nalo Hopkinson | 1960 | | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads |
| Leah Horlick | | | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good |
| Harold Horwood | 1923 | 2006 | | |
| Karen Houle | | | poet | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology |
| Liz Howard | | | poet | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent |
| Stevie Howell | | | poet | Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose |
| Nazanine Hozar | 1978 | | novelist | Aria |
| David Huebert | | | short stories, poetry | Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley |
| Annie Campbell Huestis | 1878 | 1960 | short stories, poetry | Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp |
| Tanya Huff | 1957 | | fantasy | |
| Matt Hughes | 1949 | | | |
| Helen Humphreys | 1961 | | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus |
| Aislinn Hunter | | | | |
| Bruce Hunter | 1952 | | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Coming Home from Home, Country Music Country, The Beekeeper's Daughter, Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected, In The Bear's House |
| Catherine Hunter | 1957 | | | |
| Maureen Hunter | 1948 | | | |
| Mervyn Huston | 1912 | 2001 | humorist | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes |
| Nancy Huston | 1953 | | novelist, translator | |
| Linda Hutcheon | 1947 | | critic, academic | The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation. |
| Hazel Hutchins | | | | |
| Chris Hutchinson | 1972 | | poet, novelist, academic | Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames |
| Bruce Hutchison | 1901 | 1992 | | |
| Céline Huyghebaert | | | novelist | Le drap blanc |
| Joel Thomas Hynes | 1976 | | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday |
| Maureen Hynes | | | poet | Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow |

## I

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Ameer Idreis | 1999 | | novelist | The Ewald Series |
| Michael Ignatieff | 1947 | | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging |
| George K. Ilsley | 1958 | | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug |
| Neamat Imam | 1971 | | novelist | The Black Coat |
| Susan Ioannou | 1944 | | poet | Clarity Between Clouds |
| Anosh Irani | 1974 | | novelist | The Song of Kahunsha |
| Ann Ireland | 1953 | 2018 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
| Dionne Irving | | | novelist, short stories | Quint, The Islands |
| Brian Thomas Isaac | 1950 | | novelist | All the Quiet Places |
| Adel Iskandar | 1977 | | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism |
| Doyali Islam | | | poet | Yusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft |
| Frances Itani | 1942 | | novelist | Deafening |

## J

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works Dragons of Nesbit |
| Donald Jack | 1924 | 2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
| Suzanne Jacob | 1953 | | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu |
| Heidi L. M. Jacobs | | | novelist | Molly of the Mall |
| Michael Jacot | 1924 | 2006 | novelist, screenwriter | The Last Act of Martin Weston, The Last Butterfly |
| Simone St. James | | | novelist | The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls |
| Anna Brownell Jameson | 1794 | 1860 | | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada |
| J. Robert Janes | 1932 | | mysteries | |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | 1955 | | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet |
| Melynda Jarratt | 1961 | | non-fiction, historian literature | Voices of the Left Behind, War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved, Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides, Letters From Beauly |
| Claude Jasmin | 1930 | 2021 | novelist, screenwriter, short stories | Éthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal |
| Michel Jean | | | novelist, journalist | Kukum, Atuk |
| François Jeanneret | 1890 | 1967 | historian | |
| E. A. Jenns | 1860 | 1930 | poet | Evening to Morning, and Other Poems |
| Paulette Jiles | 1943 | | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women |
| Gilles Jobidon | 1950 | | novelist | La Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé |
| Marthe Jocelyn | 1956 | | children's/young adult literature | Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series |
| K. V. Johansen | 1968 | | fantasy, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus |
| Jessica Johns | | | novelist, short stories | Bad Cree |
| Linda Johns | 1945 | | non-fiction | Sharing a Robin's Life |
| E. Pauline Johnson | 1861 | 1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
| Wentworth M. Johnson | 1939 | 2014 | science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction | Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series |
| Aviaq Johnston | 1992/1993 | | children's/young adult literature | Those Who Run in the Sky |
| Julie Johnston | | | children's/young adult literature | Adam and Eve and Pinch Me |
| Wayne Johnston | 1958 | | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion |
| Sean Johnston | 1966 | | novelist, short stories, poet | A Day Does Not Go By |
| Andy Jones | 1948 | | playwright, screenwriter | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
| Alice Jones | 1853 | 1933 | novelist, essayist | Gabriel Praed's Castle |
| D. G. Jones | 1929 | 2016 | poet, translator | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth |
| Scott Jones | | | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You |
| Terry Jordan | | | short stories | It's a Hard Cow |
| Eve Joseph | 1953 | | poet | The Startled Heart, Quarrels |

## K

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Michael Kaan | | | fiction | The Water Beetles |
| Elaine Kalman Naves | 1947 | | non-fiction | Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story |
| Surjeet Kalsey | | | poet, drama, short stories, translator | FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart |
| Smaro Kamboureli | | | | |
| Alan Kane | 1954 | | | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies |
| Donna Kane | | | poet | Orrery |
| Adeena Karasick | 1965 | | poet | This Poem |
| Ibi Kaslik | 1973 | | novelist | Skinny, The Angel Riots |
| Welwyn Wilton Katz | 1948 | | | |
| Aristote Kavungu | 1962 | | fiction, poetry | Un train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | 1954 | | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan |
| Greg Kearney | | | short stories, drama | Mommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun |
| Lionel Kearns | 1937 | | fiction, essays, digital-word-art | Birth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences |
| Diane Keating | | | poet | No Birds or Flowers |
| Julie Keith | | | short stories | The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There |
| Thomas P. Kelley | 1910 | 1982 | pulp, true crime | The Black Donnellys |
| Kaie Kellough | 1975 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Magnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads |
| Cathal Kelly | | | sportswriter, memoirist | Boy Wonders |
| M. T. Kelly | 1946 | | novelist | A Dream Like Mine |
| Sean Kelly | 1940 | | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon |
| Olivier Kemeid | 1975 | | playwright | L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés |
| Oonya Kempadoo | | | novelist | Naniki |
| Howard Angus Kennedy | 1861 | 1938 | Historian, journalist | The Northwest Rebellion |
| Michael Kenyon | | | novelist, short stories, poet | The Beautiful Children, Kleinberg |
| Conor Kerr | 1988 | | novelist, poet | Avenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers |
| Susan Kerslake | 1943 | | novelist, short stories | Middlewatch, The Book of Fears |
| Joseph Kertes | 1951 | | novelist, journalist | Winter Tulips, Gratitude |
| Craig Kielburger | 1982 | | Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur | Free the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From A Street Kid |
| Marc Kielburger | 1977 | | Canadian human rights activist, author, social entrepreneur | Me To We: Finding Meaning In A Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter |
| William Kilbourn | 1926 | 1995 | historian | The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion |
| Crawford Kilian | 1941 | | | The Last Vikings |
| Crad Kilodney | 1948 | 2014 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
| Deborah Kimmett | | | playwright, humorist | Miracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy |
| Basil King | 1859 | 1928 | novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association | The Inner Shrine (1909) |
| Thomas King | 1943 | | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water |
| Wesley King | 1987 | | novelist, fiction | OCDaniel, The Wizenard Series |
| Mark Kingwell | 1963 | | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium |
| W.P. Kinsella | 1935 | 2016 | novelist, short stories | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
| William Kirby | 1817 | 1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
| Barbara Klar | 1966 | | poet | The Night You Called Me a Shadow |
| Sarah Klassen | 1932 | | novelist, poet | Journey to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs |
| A. M. Klein | 1909 | 1972 | novelist, poet | The Second Scroll |
| Joshua Knelman | | | creative non-fiction | Hot Art |
| Chelene Knight | | | poet, creative non-fiction | Dear Current Occupant |
| Raymond Knister | 1899 | 1932 | | Grapes (2006) |
| Alexander Knox | 1907 | 1995 | actor, novelist | Night Of The White Bear |
| Tamai Kobayashi | 1965 | | short stories, novelist | Prairie Ostrich |
| Eric Koch | 1919 | 2018 | novelist | Premonitions: A novel |
| Joy Kogawa | 1935 | | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka |
| Miodrag Kojadinović | 1961 | | short story writer, poet | Érotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies |
| Sergio Kokis | 1944 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac |
| Pamela Korgemagi | | | novelist | The Hunter and the Old Woman |
| Gordon Korman | 1963 | | children's, young adult literature | This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall |
| Myrna Kostash | 1944 | | | Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe |
| Shane Koyczan | 1976 | | | Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media) |
| Greg Kramer | 1961 | 2013 | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally |
| Philip Kreiner | 1950 | | novelist, short stories | People Like Us in a Place Like This |
| Henry Kreisel | 1922 | 1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
| Aaron Kreuter | | | poet, short stories | You and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome |
| John Krizanc | 1956 | | playwright | Tamara |
| Robert Kroetsch | 1927 | 2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
| Daniel Krolik | 1977 | | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay |
| Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | 1965 | | novelist, short stories | Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things |
| Janice Kulyk Keefer | 1952 | | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library |
| J. D. Kurtness | | | fiction | De vengeance |
| Michael Kusugak | 1948 | | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog |
| Lydia Kwa | 1959 | | fiction, poet | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |

## L

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Sonnet L'Abbé | | | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe |
| Carole Labarre | 1966 | | novelist | L'Or des mélèzes |
| Richard Labonté | 1949 | | critic, anthologist | First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series |
| Rosa Labordé | | | playwright | Léo |
| Marie-Sissi Labrèche | 1969 | | screenwriter, novelist | Borderline |
| Marie-Ève Lacasse | 1982 | | novelist | Autobiographie de l'étranger |
| Edward A. Lacey | 1988 | 1995 | poet | The Forms of Life |
| Ben Ladouceur | 1987 | | poet | Otter |
| Chloé LaDuchesse | | | poet | Exosquelette |
| Steven Laffoley | 1965 | | non-fiction, novelist | Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo |
| Marie-Pier Lafontaine | | | novelist | Chienne |
| Larissa Lai | 1967 | | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand |
| Angélique Lalonde | | | short stories | Glorious Frazzled Beings |
| Kama La Mackerel | | | poet | ZOM-FAM |
| Vincent Lam | 1974 | | medicine, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Headmaster's Wager |
| Tsering Yangzom Lama | | | novelist | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies |
| Guillaume Lambert | 1984 | | novelist, screenwriter | Satyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara |
| Kevin Lambert | 1992 | | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval |
| Gerald Lampert | 1920s | 1978 | novelist, poet | Tangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus |
| Tim Lander | 1938 | | poet | Street Heart Poems |
| Patrick Lane | 1939 | 2019 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
| André Langevin | 1927 | 2009 | novelist, playwright, journalist | Évadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc |
| Marisa Lankester | 1963 | | writer | Dangerous Odds |
| Shari Lapena | 1960 | | novelist | Happiness Economics, The Couple Next Door |
| Annette Lapointe | 1978 | | novelist | Stolen |
| Gilbert La Rocque | 1943 | 1984 | novelist, biographer | Les masques |
| Hubert LaRue | 1833 | 1881 | writer, physician, scientist | Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean |
| Stéphane Larue | 1983 | | novelist | Le Plongeur |
| Evelyn Lau | 1971 | | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid |
| Margaret Laurence | 1926 | 1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel, The Diviners |
| Agnes C. Laut | 1871 | 1936 | journalist, novelist, historian, social worker | Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier |
| Marie-Renée Lavoie | 1974 | | novelist | La petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate |
| Karen Lawrence | 1951 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Life of Helen Alone |
| R.D. Lawrence | 1921 | 2003 | naturalist, nature writer | Cry Wild |
| Mary Lawson | 1946 | | novelist | Crow Lake |
| Irving Layton | 1912 | 2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
| Jack Layton | 1950 | 2011 | non-fiction | Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis |
| Stephen Leacock | 1869 | 1944 | humorist | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
| Georgette LeBlanc | 1977 | | poet, translator | Alma, Prudent |
| Gérald Leblanc | 1945 | 2005 | poet | Complaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra |
| Perrine Leblanc | 1980 | | novelist | L'homme blanc, Malabourg |
| D. M. LeBourdais | 1887 | 1964 | journalist, historian | Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution |
| Isabel LeBourdais | 1909 | 2003 | journalist | The Trial of Steven Truscott |
| Félix Leclerc | 1914 | 1988 | writer, poet, singer-songwriter | Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers |
| Dennis Lee | 1939 | | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies |
| John Alan Lee | 1933 | 2013 | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex |
| JJ Lee | | | non-fiction | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit |
| Jen Sookfong Lee | | | novelist | The End of East |
| John B. Lee | 1951 | | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
| Nancy Lee | 1970 | | short stories | Dead Girls |
| Ronald Lee | 1934 | 2020 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
| Sky Lee | 1952 | | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe |
| Mathyas Lefebure | | | novelist | D'où viens tu, berger? |
| Lily Alice Lefevre | 1854 | 1938 | poet | The Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By The Sea |
| Mark Leiren-Young | 1962 | | playwright, novelist | Shylock (play), The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen |
| Roger Lemelin | 1919 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
| Matt Lennox | 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead |
| John Lent | 1948 | 2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
| Don LePan | 1954 | | novelist | Animals: A Novel |
| Douglas LePan | 1914 | 1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology" |
| Catherine Leroux | 1979 | | novelist, short stories | Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria |
| Pierre Leroux | 1958 | | novelist | Le Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur |
| Alex Leslie | | | poet, short stories | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You |
| Mark Leslie | 1969 | | novelist, non-fiction, short stories | Haunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York |
| Sophie Létourneau | 1980 | | novelist | Chasse à l'homme |
| Carrianne Leung | | | novelist, short stories | The Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You |
| J. R. (Roger) Léveillé | 1945 | | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Setting Lake Sun |
| Yves Lever | 1942 | 2020 | film critic, historian, biographer | Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec |
| Lilian Leveridge | 1879 | 1953 | poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles | "Over the Hills of Home" |
| Norman Levine | 1923 | 2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
| Shar Levine | 1953 | | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope |
| Naomi K. Lewis | 1976 | | novelist, non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers |
| Wyndham Lewis | 1882 | 1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
| Katherine Leyton | | | poet | All the Gold Hurts My Mouth |
| T. Liem | | | poet | Obits |
| Hillar Liitoja | | | playwright | The Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville |
| Thea Lim | 1981 | | novelist | An Ocean of Minutes |
| Michael Lista | 1983 | | poet | Bloom |
| Ashley Little | 1983 | | children's, young adult literature | The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang |
| Jean Little | 1932 | 2020 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909 | 1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
| Billie Livingston | 1965 | | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes |
| Douglas Lochhead | 1922 | 2011 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
| Lynette Loeppky | | | memoirist | Cease |
| John Lorinc | | | journalist | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
| Kevin Loring | 1974 | | playwright | Where the Blood Mixes |
| Jennifer LoveGrove | | | poet, novelist | Watch How We Walk |
| Malcolm Lowry | 1909 | 1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
| Pat Lowther | 1935 | 1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
| Canisia Lubrin | | | poet, novelist | The Dyzgraphxst, Code Noir |
| Jack Ludwig | 1922 | 2018 | novelist, short stories, sportswriter | Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration |
| Sidura Ludwig | | | novelist, short stories | Holding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected |
| Pearl Luke | 1958 | | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee |
| Janet Lunn | 1928 | 2017 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
| Laura Lush | 1959 | | poet, short story writer | Hometown, Going to the Zoo |
| Richard Lush | 1934 | | poet | A Manual for Lying Down |
| Michael Lynch | 1944 | 1991 | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends |
| Annabel Lyon | 1971 | | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean |
| Eswyn Lyster | 1923 | 2009 | war brides, war | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |

## M

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Rozena Maart | 1962 | | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle |
| Patrick MacAdam | 1934 | 2015 | | Gold Medal Misfits |
| Annick MacAskill | | | poet | Shadow Blight |
| Ann-Marie MacDonald | 1958 | | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) |
| Bryden MacDonald | 1960 | | playwright | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath |
| D. R. MacDonald | 1939 | | novelist, short stories | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart |
| Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald | 1864 | 1922 | poet, children's literature, short stories, essays | |
| Hugh MacDonald | 1945 | | | This is a Love Song |
| Jake MacDonald | 1949 | 2020 | | The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country |
| Janice MacDonald | 1959 | | novelist, children's literature, short stories | Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out |
| Maggie MacDonald | 1979 | | | |
| Wilson MacDonald | 1880 | 1967 | poet | Song of the Prairie Land |
| Lee MacDougall | | | playwright | High Life |
| Gwendolyn MacEwen | 1941 | 1987 | poet, novelist | Julian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams |
| Mary Esther MacGregor | 1872 | 1961 | novelist, non-fiction | A Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley. |
| Roy MacGregor | 1948 | | journalist, non-fiction | Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey |
| Agnes Maule Machar | 1837 | 1927 | | |
| Linden MacIntyre | 1943 | | novelist, journalist | The Bishop's Man, Causeway |
| Matthew MacKenzie | | | playwright | Bears, The First Métis Man of Odesa |
| Rory Maclean | 1954 | | | |
| Hugh MacLennan | 1907 | 1990 | novelist, essayist | Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising |
| Matt MacLennan | | | | |
| Michael MacLennan | 1968 | | | |
| Alexander MacLeod | 1972 | | short stories | Light Lifting |
| Alison MacLeod | | | fiction | Unexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts |
| Alistair MacLeod | 1936 | 2014 | novelist, short stories | No Great Mischief |
| Elizabeth Macleod | | | biographer | |
| Joan MacLeod | 1954 | | playwright | Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl |
| Rick Maddocks | 1970 | | short stories | Sputnik Diner |
| Adriana Maggs | | | screenwriter | Grown Up Movie Star |
| Randall Maggs | | | poet | Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems |
| Michèle Magny | 1944 | | playwright | Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel |
| Anand Mahadevan | 1979 | | novelist | The Strike |
| Rabindranath Maharaj | 1955 | | novelist, short stories | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice |
| Louise Maheux-Forcier | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, radio and television drama | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
| Keith Maillard | 1942 | | novelist, poet | Twin Studies, Difficulty at the Beginning quartet, The Clarinet Polka, Gloria, Dementia Americana, Hazard Zones, Light in the Company of Women, Motet, Two Strand River |
| Antonine Maillet | 1929 | | novelist, playwright | La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charrette |
| André Major | 1942 | | poet, novelist | Les Rescapés |
| Kevin Major | 1949 | | | |
| Pasha Malla | | | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method |
| Donato Mancini | | | poet | Ligature, Æthel, Same Diff |
| Eli Mandel | 1922 | 1992 | poet | Trio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance |
| Miriam Mandel | 1930 | 1982 | poet | Lions at Her Face, Station 14 |
| Avner Mandelman | | | novelist, finance | The Debba |
| David Manicom | 1960 | | poet, novelist | |
| Lee Maracle | 1950 | 2021 | poet, novelist | |
| Blaine Marchand | 1949 | | poet, non-fiction, novelist | A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives |
| Jovette Marchessault | 1938 | 2012 | novelist, playwright | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien |
| Hubert Marcoux | 1941 | 2009 | non-fiction, adventure travel | Around the World in 18 Years |
| Michèle Marineau | 1955 | | novelist, translator | La Route de Chlifa |
| Robert Marinier | 1954 | | playwright, television | L'Insomnie, Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville |
| Daphne Marlatt | 1942 | | | |
| Paul Marlowe | | | novelist, short stories | Sporeville |
| John Marlyn | 1912 | 1985 | | |
| Nicole Markotic | 1962 | | | |
| Tom Marshall | 1938 | 1993 | poet, novelist, critic | Adele at the End of the Day |
| Yolanda T. Marshall | 1978 | | children's literature | My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans |
| Émile Martel | 1941 | | poet, short stories | Pour orchestre et poète seul |
| Yann Martel | 1963 | | novelist, short stories | Life of Pi, The High Mountains of Portugal |
| Camille Martin | 1956 | | poet, collage artist | Sonnets, Looms |
| Claire Martin | 1914 | 2014 | | La joue droite |
| Paul Nicholas Mason | 1958 | | novelist, playwright | Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave |
| Vincent Massey | 1887 | 1967 | historian | On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march |
| Elan Mastai | | | screenwriter, novelist | The F Word, All Our Wrong Todays |
| Carol Matas | 1949 | | novelist | After the War, Daniel's Story |
| Shirlee Smith Matheson | 1943 | | | |
| Suzette Mayr | 1967 | | novelist | Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter |
| John Bentley Mays | 1941 | 2016 | journalist, novelist, memoirist | In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood |
| Susan Mayse | 1948 | | creative non-fiction | Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web |
| Julie Mazzieri | 1975 | | novelist | Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco |
| Melchior Mbonimpa | 1955 | | novelist, non-fiction | Les morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel |
| Tawiah M'carthy | | | playwright | Obaaberima |
| Colin McAdam | | | novelist | Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth |
| Steve McCaffery | 1947 | | | |
| Julia McCarthy | | | poet | Return from Erebus, All the Names Between |
| Nellie McClung | 1873 | 1951 | journalist | |
| Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac) | | | poet, academic | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers |
| Derek McCormack | 1969 | | novelist, short stories | Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly |
| Eric McCormack | 1938 | | novelist | The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
| Edward McCourt | 1907 | 1972 | novelist, non-fiction | Music at the Close |
| John McCrae | 1872 | 1918 | poet | "In Flanders' Fields" |
| Kathleen McCracken | 1960 | | poet | Blue Light, Bay and College |
| Derek McCulloch | 1964 | | graphic novelist | Stagger Lee |
| Thomas McCulloch | 1776 | 1843 | humourist | The Stepsure Letters |
| Colin McDougall | 1917 | 1984 | novelist | Execution |
| Franklin D. McDowell | 1888 | 1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
| Jaimie McEvoy | 1965 | | historian | |
| David McFadden | 1940 | 2018 | poet, novelist, short stories | The Art of Darkness, What's the Score? |
| Donna McFarlane | 1958 | | novelist | Division of Surgery |
| Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon) | 1902 | 1977 | children's literature | The Hardy Boys |
| Sheryl McFarlane | 1954 | | children's literature, young adult fiction | Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog |
| Oonah McFee | 1916 | 2006 | novels, short stories | Sandbars |
| Peter McGehee | 1955 | 1991 | novels, short stories | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart |
| Robin McGrath | 1949 | | novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction | Escaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt |
| Jean McIlwraith | 1858 | 1938 | novelist, biographer | |
| Edgar McInnis | 1899 | 1973 | poet, historian | The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War |
| James McIntyre | 1827 | 1906 | poet | |
| Ami McKay | 1968 | | | The Birth House |
| Don McKay | 1942 | | poet, essayist | |
| Leo McKay, Jr. | 1964 | | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six, Like This |
| Bruce Alistair McKelvie | 1889 | 1960 | journalist, historian | Magic, Murder and Mystery |
| Ian McLachlan | | | novelist, playwright | The Seventh Hexagram |
| Stuart McLean | 1948 | 2017 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
| Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | academic | |
| Susan McMaster | 1950 | | | |
| Amber McMillan | | | writer | We Can't Ever Do This Again, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island, The Running Trees, This Is a Stickup |
| Sylvia McNicoll | 1954 | | | |
| Florence McNeil | 1932 | 2013 | poet, playwright | Overlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me |
| Marie McPhedran | 1904 | 1974 | novelist | Cargoes on the Great Lakes |
| Christopher Meades | 1974 | | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary |
| John Melady | | | | |
| Lee Mellor | 1982 | | true crime, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder |
| Judith Merril | 1923 | 1997 | science fiction, editor | |
| Edmund Metatawabin | 1948 | | memoirist | Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History |
| John Metcalf | 1938 | | | |
| Stéfani Meunier | 1971 | | novelist, short stories | Une carte postale de l'océan |
| Sarah Mian | | | poet, novelist, short stories | When the Saints |
| Shayne Michael | | | poet | Fif et sauvage |
| Anne Michaels | 1958 | | poet, novelist | Fugitive Pieces |
| Sean Michaels | 1982 | | novelist, music critic | Us Conductors |
| Andrée A. Michaud | 1957 | | novelist, playwright | Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée |
| Marianne Micros | 1943 | | short stories, poet | Eye |
| Jesse Edgar Middleton | 1872 | 1960 | journalist, historian, songwriter | Huron Carol, Toronto's 100 Years |
| Stevie Mikayne | | | mystery novelist, children's literature | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts |
| Roy Miki | 1942 | | | |
| Ron Miksha | 1954 | | | Bad Beekeeping |
| Eleanor Millard | 1942 | | novelist, memoirist, short stories | River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow |
| John Miller | 1968 | | novelist | The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath |
| Orlo Miller | 1911 | 1993 | historian, novelist | |
| Kenneth G. Mills | 1923 | 2004 | poet | |
| Christine Miscione | | | novelist, short stories | Auxiliary Skins, Carafola |
| Christian Mistral | 1964 | | novelist, poet, songwriter | Vamp |
| Rohinton Mistry | 1952 | | novelist | Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance |
| Jared Mitchell | 1955 | | | |
| John Wendell Mitchell | 1882 | 1951 | novelist | The Yellow Briar |
| W. O. Mitchell | 1914 | 1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
| Rick Mofina | 1959 | | mystery, thriller | Blood of Others |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874 | 1942 | novelist, children's literature | Anne of Green Gables |
| Susanna Moodie | 1803 | 1885 | memoirist | Roughing it in the Bush |
| Brian Moore | 1921 | 1999 | | Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
| Christopher G. Moore | 1952 | | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series |
| Lisa Moore | 1964 | | | short stories, novelist |
| Jeffrey Moore | | | novelist | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club |
| Shani Mootoo | 1958 | | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night |
| Edythe Morahan de Lauzon | | | poet | |
| Pierre Morency | 1942 | | poet, playwright | |
| Bernice Morgan | 1935 | | | |
| Dwayne Morgan | 1974 | | | |
| Grace Jones Morgan | 1884 | 1977 | pulp | |
| Jeffrey Morgan | | | rock critic, biographer, graphic novelist, poet | The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story, The Brides of Mister X |
| Tara Lee Morin | | | poet, memoirist | As I Remember It |
| Guillaume Morissette | 1983 | | novelist | |
| Kim Moritsugu | | | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure |
| Donna Morrissey | 1956 | | | |
| Kim Morrissey | | | | |
| Garry Thomas Morse | | | poet, novelist | Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour |
| Colin Morton | 1948 | | |
| Marie Moser | 1948 | | novelist, short stories | Counterpoint |
| Daniel David Moses | 1952 | 2020 | poet and playwright | |
| Tara Moss | 1973 | | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess |
| Erín Moure | 1955 | | poet | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921 | 2014 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
| Claire Mulligan | | | novelist, short stories | The Reckoning of Boston Jim |
| Alice Munro | 1931 | 2024 | short stories | The Progress of Love, Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman |
| Jim Munroe | 1945 | | science fiction | Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico |
| Robert Munsch | 1945 | | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess |
| Janet Munsil | | | playwright | Be Still, That Elusive Spark |
| Sachiko Murakami | 1980 | | poet | The Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render |
| George Murray | 1971 | | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms |
| Morgan Murray | | | novelist | Dirty Birds |
| Sheila Murray | | | novelist, short stories | Finding Edward |
| John Murrell | 1945 | 2019 | playwright | |
| Susan Musgrave | 1951 | | poet, novelist | The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids |
| Maria Mutch | | | memoirist, short stories | Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours |
| Téa Mutonji | | | short stories | Shut Up You're Pretty |

## N

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Ira Nadel | 1943 | | biography, literary criticism | Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text, David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre, Tom Stoppard: A Life |
| Noor Naga | | | novelist | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English |
| Hasan Namir | 1987 | | novelist | God in Pink |
| Shenaaz Nanji | 1954 | | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions |
| Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Sanaaq |
| Akhtar Naraghi | | | novelist, poet | The Big Green House |
| André Narbonne | | | novelist, poet, short stories | Twelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia |
| Angela Narth | 1946 | | children's literature, non-fiction | Simon With Two Left Feet |
| Jim Nason | | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow |
| Riel Nason | | | young adult novelist | The Town That Drowned |
| Dimitri Nasrallah | 1977 | | novelist | Blackbodying, Hotline |
| Michael Nathanson | | | playwright | Talk |
| Blaise Ndala | | | novelist | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov |
| Jen Neale | | | novelist | Land Mammals and Sea Creatures |
| Émile Nelligan | 1879 | 1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
| Max Nemni | | | political scientist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed |
| Monique Nemni | 1936 | | linguist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed |
| Pierre Nepveu | 1946 | | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques |
| Sylvain Neuvel | 1973 | | science fiction | Sleeping Giants |
| John Newlove | 1938 | 2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
| Peter C. Newman | 1929 | | journalist | The Canadian Establishment |
| B. P. Nichol | 1944 | 1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
| Cecily Nicholson | | | poet | From the Poplars, Wayside Sang |
| Hal Niedzviecki | 1971 | | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too |
| Susin Nielsen | | | children's and young adult literature | The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen |
| Frederick Niven | 1878 | 1944 | novelist | The Flying Years |
| Fraser Nixon | | | crime novelist | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head |
| Francine Noël | 1945 | | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie |
| Henri Nouwen | 1932 | 1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
| Mary Novik | 1945 | | novelist | Conceit |
| Alden Nowlan | 1933 | 1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself |

## O

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Keith Oatley | 1939 | | novelist, psychology, scholar | The Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions |
| Sheldon Oberman | 1949 | 2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
| Theodore Odrach | 1912 | 1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories |
| Rohan O'Grady | 1922 | 2014 | novelist | Let's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal |
| Howard O'Hagan | 1902 | 1982 | novelist, short stories | Tay John |
| Alix Ohlin | | | novelist, short stories | Inside, Signs and Wonders |
| Alexandra Oliver | 1970 | | poet | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
| Tolu Oloruntoba | | | poet | The Junta of Happenstance |
| Bryan Lee O'Malley | 1979 | | graphic novelist | Scott Pilgrim |
| Heather O'Neill | 1973 | | novelist | Lullabies for Little Criminals |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943 | | novelist, poet | The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost |
| Christopher Ondaatje | 1933 | | writer, publisher | The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867–1967, The Man-eater of Punanai — a Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia | | | novelist | The Son of the House |
| Kenneth Oppel | 1967 | | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga |
| Stephen Osborne | 1947 | | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World |
| Gabriel Osson | | | novelist, poet, memoirist | Le jour se lèvera |
| Martha Ostenso | 1900 | 1963 | novelist, screenwriter | Wild Geese |
| Lawrence O'Toole | | | film critic, memoirist | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home |
| Fernand Ouellette | 1930 | | poet, novelist | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures |
| Susan Ouriou | 1955 | | novelist, short stories, translator | Damselfish |
| James Macdonald Oxley | 1855 | 1907 | novelist (juvenile) | |

## P

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Frank L. Packard | 1877 | 1942 | Novelist | The Adventures of Jimmie Dale |
| Susan Paddon | | | poet | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths |
| P. K. Page | 1916 | 2010 | poet | |
| Basil Papademos | 1957 | | erotica | Mount Royal |
| Aaron Paquette | 1974 | | young adult literature, fantasy | Lightfinder |
| Jivesh Parasram | | | playwright | Take d Milk, Nah? |
| Arleen Paré | 1946 | | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains |
| Erna Paris | | | literary non-fiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History |
| Fawn Parker | | | novelist, poet, short stories | What We Both Know |
| Gilbert Parker | 1862 | 1932 | novelist | The Seats of the Mighty, The Lane that Had No Turning |
| Amy Parkinson | 1855 | 1938 | poet | Love Through All, Best |
| Jocelyn Parr | | | fiction | Uncertain Weights and Measures |
| Amanda Parris | | | playwright | Other Side of the Game |
| Markoosie Patsauq | 1942 | 2020 | fiction | Harpoon of the Hunter |
| Kevin Patterson | 1964 | | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between |
| Raymond M. Patterson | 1898 | 1984 | | |
| Philip Kevin Paul | | | poet | Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger |
| Loghan Paylor | | | novelist, short stories | The Cure for Drowning |
| Joan Payzant | 1925 | 2013 | columnist, historical, children's fiction | Who's a Scaredy-Cat!: A Story of the Halifax Explosion |
| Kit Pearson | 1947 | | children's literature, young adult literature | Awake and Dreaming, The Sky is Falling, A Handful of Time |
| Soraya Peerbaye | | | poet, dramatist | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell |
| Francine Pelletier | 1959 | | science fiction, young adult literature | |
| Fred Pellerin | 1976 | | short stories | |
| Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | 1971 | | children's, memoirist, academic | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant |
| Louise Penny | 1958 | | mysteries | Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month |
| H. R. Percy | 1920 | 1997 | novelist, short stories | Painted Ladies |
| Susan Perly | | | novelist, short stories | Love Street, Death Valley |
| Amanda Peters | | | novelist, short stories | The Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon |
| Bradley Peters | | | poet | Sonnets from a Cell |
| Jordan Peterson | 1962 | | applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar | Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five |
| Len Peterson | 1917 | 2008 | | |
| Zoey Leigh Peterson | | | novelist | Next Year, for Sure |
| Geneviève Pettersen | 1982 | | novelist, blogger | La déesse des mouches à feu |
| Josephine Phelan | 1905 | 1979 | History, biography | The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee |
| Edward O. Phillips | 1931 | 2020 | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday |
| Wendy Phillips | | | children's literature | Fishtailing |
| Lorne Pierce | 1890 | 1961 | literary critic | |
| Joseph Jomo Pierre | | | playwright | Shakespeare's Nigga |
| Emmanuelle Pierrot | 1994 | | novelist | La version qui n'intéresse personne |
| Leslie Hall Pinder | 1948 | 2021 | fiction | On Double Tracks |
| Sarah Pinder | | | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place |
| William Ping | | | fiction | Hollow Bamboo |
| Joseph Pivato | 1946 | | literary critic, editor | Echo: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing |
| Hazel Jane Plante | | | novelist | Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City |
| Michel Pleau | 1964 | | poet | La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit |
| Casey Plett | 1987 | | short stories, novelist | A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of A Woman |
| Jacques Poitras | | | journalist, non-fiction | Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future |
| Craig Poile | | | poet | First Crack, True Concessions |
| Daniel Poliquin | 1953 | | | |
| Sharon Pollock | 1936 | 2021 | | |
| Michael Poole | 1936 | 2010 | non-fiction | Romancing Mary Jane |
| Helen Fogwill Porter | 1930 | | non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright | Below the Bridge, Finishing School |
| Michelle Porter | | | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Inquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story |
| Liza Potvin | 1958 | | non-fiction | White Lies (for my mother) |
| Gabrielle Poulin | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, poet | La Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison |
| Jacques Poulin | 1937 | | novelist | Volkswagen Blues |
| Christine Pountney | 1971 | | novelist | Last Chance Texaco |
| Joël Pourbaix | 1958 | | poet | Le mal du pays est un art oublié |
| Steve Poutré | 1979 | | novelist | Lait cru |
| B.W. Powe | 1955 | | philosopher | A Canada of Light |
| Kerry Lee Powell | | | poet, short stories | The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush |
| Craig Francis Power | | | novelist | Blood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love |
| Paul David Power | | | playwright | Crippled |
| E. J. Pratt | 1883 | 1964 | poet | |
| Steven Price | | | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness |
| Robert Priest | 1951 | | poet | |
| Alex Pugsley | 1963 | | novels, short stories, screenwriter | Dirty Singles, Aubrey McKee |
| Kate Pullinger | 1961 | | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing |
| Al Purdy | 1918 | 2000 | poet | |
| Andrew Pyper | 1968 | 2025 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |

## Q

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | | | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be |
| Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | | | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be |
| Darlene Quaife | 1948 | | novelist | Bone Bird |
| Andy Quan | 1969 | | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions |
| Paul Quarrington | 1953 | 2010 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music, King Leary |
| Meredith Quartermain | 1950 | | poet, fiction | Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet |
| Marion Quednau | 1952 | | novelist, poet, short stories, children's literature | The Butterfly Chair, Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road |
| Sina Queyras | 1963 | | poet, novelist | Lemon Hound, MxT, Autobiography of Childhood |
| Christine Quintana | | | playwright | Selfie |
| Pascale Quiviger | 1969 | | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |

## R

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Tom Rachman | 1974 | | novelist | The Imperfectionists |
| Thomas Head Raddall | 1903 | 1994 | novelist | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories |
| Kenneth Radu | 1945 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance |
| Nasrin Rahimieh | | | Persian literature | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage |
| Deepa Rajagopalan | | | short stories | Peacocks of Instagram |
| Danny Ramadan | 1984 | | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing |
| Menaka Raman-Wilms | | | journalist, novelist | The Rooftop Garden |
| Gurcharan Rampuri | 1929 | 2018 | | |
| Gord Rand | | | playwright | Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams |
| Edeet Ravel | 1955 | | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers |
| Angela Rawlings | 1978 | | | |
| Ben Rayner | | | music journalist | |
| Mark A. Rayner | | | | |
| James Reaney | 1926 | 2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's |
| Kelly Rebar | 1956 | | playwright, screenwriter | Bordertown Café |
| Duke Redbird | 1939 | | poet, academic, journalist | |
| Corey Redekop | | | novelist, short stories | Husk |
| Michael Redhill | 1966 | | novelist, short stories | Martin Sloane, Bellevue Square |
| Beatrice Redpath | 1886 | 1937 | poet, short stories | Drawn Shutters, White Lilac |
| Roberta Rees | 1954 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Eyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers |
| Iain Reid | 1980 | | novelist, memoirist | The Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things |
| Gayla Reid | 1945 | | novels, short stories | To Be There With You |
| Raziel Reid | 1990 | | young adult novelist | When Everything Feels Like the Movies |
| Stephen Reid | 1950 | 2018 | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole |
| Zalika Reid-Benta | | | short stories | Frying Plantain |
| Kati Rekai | 1921 | 2010 | | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece |
| Maria Reva | | | short stories | Good Citizens Need Not Fear |
| Shane Rhodes | | | poet | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery |
| François Ricard | 1947 | 2022 | biographer, essayist | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
| Nino Ricci | 1959 | | novelist | Lives of the Saints |
| Waubgeshig Rice | | | novelist, short stories | Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow |
| David Adams Richards | 1950 | | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street |
| Evelyn M. Richardson | 1902 | 1976 | novelist | Desired Haven |
| Jael Richardson | | | memoirist, playwright | The Stone Thrower |
| John Richardson | 1796 | 1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
| Robin Richardson | | | poet | Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want |
| Edward Riche | 1961 | | novelist, screenwriter | Rare Birds |
| Daniel Richler | 1957 | | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow |
| Emma Richler | 1961 | | novelist, short stories | Sister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs |
| Jacob Richler | | | journalist | |
| Mordecai Richler | 1931 | 2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version |
| Nancy Richler | 1957 | 2018 | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
| Noah Richler | | | journalist | This Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War |
| Emily Riddle | | | poet | The Big Melt |
| Tanis Rideout | | | poet, novelist | Above All Things |
| Sandra Ridley | | | poet | Silvija, Vixen |
| T. F. Rigelhof | 1944 | | novelist, memoirist, literary critic | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress |
| Sharon Riis | 1947 | 2016 | novelist, short stories, screenwriter | The True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah |
| Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton) | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Thirty Acres |
| Charles Ritchie | 1906 | 1995 | diarist | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years |
| Thomas Beattie Roberton | 1879 | 1936 | journalist, critic | TBR: Newspaper Pieces |
| Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860 | 1943 | poet, novelist | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg |
| Ken Roberts | 1946 | | | |
| Paul William Roberts | 1950 | 2019 | | |
| Bill Robertson | | | screenwriter | The Events Leading Up to My Death, Apartment Hunting |
| Lisa Robertson | 1961 | | poet | |
| Margaret Murray Robertson | 1823 | 1897 | novelist | |
| John Daniel Robins | 1884 | 1952 | humorist | The Incomplete Anglers |
| Eden Robinson | 1968 | | novelist | Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster |
| J. Jill Robinson | 1955 | | short stories, creative non-fiction | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire |
| Peter Robinson | 1950 | | mystery | |
| Marc Robitaille | | | novels, sports history, film | Histoires d'hiver, Un été sans point ni coup sûr, Il était une fois les Expos |
| Harriet A. Roche | 1835 | 1921 | pioneer, traveler | On Trek in the Transvaal |
| Ajmer Rode | | | poet, playwright, translator | |
| Spider Robinson | 1948 | | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon |
| Grace Dean Rogers | 1863 | 1958 | Novelist, historian | Stories of the Land of Evangeline |
| Ian Rogers | 1976 | | supernatural and horror fiction | Every House Is Haunted |
| Linda Rogers | 1944 | | | |
| Richard Rohmer | 1924 | | | |
| Mathieu Rolland | 1989 | | novelist | Souvenir de Night, De grandes personnes |
| Leon Rooke | 1934 | | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog, A Bolt of White Cloth |
| Patrick Roscoe | 1967 | | novelist, short stories | Birthmarks, God's Peculiar Care |
| Rose Reisman | | | nutritiology writer | Manhattan's Dessert Scene: New York City's Top Dessert Spots Reveal Their Secret Recipes |
| Rachel Rose | 1970 | | poet | Song and Spectacle |
| Simon Rose | 1961 | | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy |
| Rebecca Rosenblum | 1978 | | short stories | Once |
| Leonard Rosmarin | | | novelist | |
| Sinclair Ross | 1908 | 1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial |
| Stuart Ross | 1959 | | poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent |
| Nancy-Gay Rotstein | | | poet, novelist | |
| Jeffrey Round | | | poet, mysteries | The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain |
| Andrea Routley | | | short stories | Jane and the Whales |
| André Roy | 1944 | | poet, critic | Action writing |
| Matthew J. Royal | 1863 | 1900 | novelist and playwright | The Isle of the Virgins: A Romance, Aunt Hannah |
| Gabrielle Roy | 1909 | 1983 | novelist | The Tin Flute, Children of My Heart |
| Holley Rubinsky | 1943 | 2015 | novelist, short stories | At First I Hope For Rescue, Rapid Transits and Other Stores, Beyond This Point |
| Jane Rule | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Desert of the Heart |
| Alexei Maxim Russell | 1976 | | novelist | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective |
| Harley Rustad | 1985 | | non-fiction author, journalist | Big Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death |
| Elizabeth Ruth | 1968 | | novelist | Smoke |
| Naben Ruthnum | | | novelist, non-fiction | Curry: Reading, Eating and Race, Find You in the Dark |
| Garry Ryan | | | mysteries, historical fiction | The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, Malabarista, Blackbirds |
| George Ryga | 1932 | 1987 | playwright and novelist | The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
| Geoff Ryman | 1951 | | | |

## S

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Michelle Sagara | 1963 | | fantasy | |
| Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | | | playwright | Gas Girls, A Man A Fish |
| Rodney Saint-Éloi | | | poet | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé |
| Kerri Sakamoto | 1960 | | novelist | The Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts |
| Mark Sakamoto | 1977 | | memoirist | Forgiveness |
| Trish Salah | | | poet | Wanting in Arabic |
| Rebecca Salazar | | | poet | sulphurtongue |
| G. Herbert Sallans | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Little Man |
| Rick Salutin | 1942 | | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith |
| Laura G. Salverson | 1890 | 1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
| Liselle Sambury | | | fantasy, young adult | Blood Like Magic |
| Shelly Sanders | 1964 | | novelist, journalist | The Rachel Trilogy |
| Susan Sanford Blades | | | novelist | Fake It So Real |
| Robyn Sarah | 1949 | | poet, short stories | Promise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me |
| Mairuth Sarsfield | 1925 | 2013 | novelist | No Crystal Stair |
| Jocelyne Saucier | 1948 | | novelist | Il pleuvait des oiseaux |
| John Ralston Saul | 1947 | | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization |
| Gloria Sawai | 1932 | 2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
| Robert J. Sawyer | 1960 | | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax, Calculating God, Flashforward, Rollback |
| Arthur Scaife | 1855 | 1934 | short stories, novelist, poetry | Three Letters of Credit and Other Stories |
| Dominique Scali | | | novelist | À la recherche de New Babylon |
| Alan Scarfe | 1946 | | novelist | The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit |
| Jacob Scheier | 1980 | | poet | More to Keep Us Warm |
| Libby Scheier | 1946 | 2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
| Diane Schoemperlen | 1954 | | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion |
| Stephen Scobie | 1943 | | poet | McAlmon's Chinese Opera |
| Anakana Schofield | 1971 | | novelist | Malarky |
| Adam Lewis Schroeder | | | novelist, short stories | In the Fabled East |
| Andreas Schroeder | 1946 | | | |
| Gregory Scofield | 1966 | | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel |
| Chris Scott | 1945 | | novelist | Antichthon, Jack |
| Duncan Campbell Scott | 1862 | 1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
| Frank Scott | 1899 | 1985 | poet | |
| Gail Scott | 1945 | | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error |
| Jordan Scott | | | poet | Silt, blert, Night & Ox |
| R.T.M. Scott | 1882 | 1966 | novelist | Secret Service Smith |
| Richard Scrimger | | | children's writer, novelist | |
| Jasmine Sealy | | | novelist, short stories | The Island of Forgetting |
| Djanet Sears | 1959 | | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God |
| Paul Seesequasis | | | novelist, journalist | Tobacco Wars, Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun |
| Benjamin Sehene | 1959 | | novelist, essayist, political writer | |
| Sarah Selecky | 1974 | | short stories | This Cake Is for the Party |
| Bev Sellars | | | memoirist | They Called Me Number One |
| Dollard Senécal | 1912 | 2002 | | |
| Shyam Selvadurai | 1965 | | novelist | Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens |
| Bruce Serafin | | 2007 | creative non-fiction | Stardust |
| Robert W. Service | 1874 | 1958 | poet | The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
| Ernest Thompson Seton | 1860 | 1946 | | |
| Mark Shainblum | 1963 | | | |
| Lionel Shapiro | 1908 | 1958 | novelist, journalist | The Sixth Of June, They Left The Back Door Open |
| Leanne Shapton | 1973 | | graphic novelist | Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry |
| Gaurav Sharma | 1992 | | novelist, author | God of the Sullied, Gone are the Days, The Indian Story of an Author |
| Sarah Sheard | 1953 | | | |
| Sheung-King | | | novelist | You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. |
| Murphy O. Shewchuk | 1943 | | writer, photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails, Coquihalla Trips and Trails, Cariboo Trips and Trails |
| Francis Sherman | 1871 | 1926 | poet | |
| Valerie Sherrard | 1957 | | children's and young adult literature | The Glory Wind |
| Carol Shields | 1935 | 2003 | novelist, short stories | The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party |
| Erin Shields | | | playwright | If We Were Birds |
| Aki Shimazaki | 1954 | | | |
| Ann Shin | | | poet, novelist, filmmaker | The Last Exiles |
| Adam Shortt | 1859 | 1931 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
| Vivek Shraya | 1981 | | short stories | God Loves Hair |
| Eric Siblin | | | journalist, music writer | The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece |
| Maggie Siggins | 1942 | | historian, biographies | Riel |
| Antanas Sileika | 1953 | | novels, fiction, essays | Buying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller |
| Ana Siljak | | | historian | Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World |
| Makeda Silvera | 1955 | | | The Heart Does Not Bend |
| Louise Simard | 1950 | | | |
| Jessie Sime | 1868 | 1958 | Novelist | Our Little Life |
| Bren Simmers | 1976 | | poet | Night Gears |
| Merilyn Simonds | 1949 | | creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror, The Paradise Project |
| Colin Simpson | | | | |
| Bardia Sinaee | | | poet | Intruder |
| Andy Sinclair | | | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons |
| Jaspreet Singh | 1969 | | | |
| Mark Sinnett | | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore |
| George Sipos | | | memoirist, poet | The Geography of Arrival, Anything But the Moon |
| Johanna Skibsrud | 1980 | | novelist, poet | The Sentimentalists |
| Marsha Skrypuch | 1954 | | young adult, children's fiction, narrative non-fiction | Making Bombs for Hitler, Stolen Child, Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War |
| Josef Skvorecky | 1924 | 2012 | novelist, essayist | The Engineer of Human Souls |
| Joshua Slocum | 1844 | 1909 | | |
| Carolyn Smart | 1952 | | poet | Hooked |
| Elizabeth Smart | 1913 | 1986 | | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept |
| Gwen Smid | 1979 | | fiction, picture books | Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario |
| Jean Edward Smith | 1932 | 2019 | | |
| Michael V. Smith | | | novelist | Cumberland |
| Neil Smith | 1964 | | short stories | Bang Crunch |
| Russell Smith | 1963 | | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent |
| Carrie Snyder | | | short stories | Hair Hat, The Juliet Stories |
| Mary Soderstrom | 1942 | | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond |
| Caro Soles | | | mystery, science fiction, fantasy, erotica | Drag Queen in the Court of Death |
| Evan Solomon | 1968 | | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance |
| Madeline Sonik | 1960 | | | |
| J. Dewey Soper | 1893 | 1982 | naturalist | |
| Carolyn Marie Souaid | 1959 | | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood |
| Gaétan Soucy | 1958 | 2013 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
| Raymond Souster | 1921 | 2012 | poet | |
| Esta Spalding | | | | |
| Linda Spalding | 1943 | | | The Follow,The Purchase |
| Rae Spoon | | | songwriter, short stories | First Spring Grass Fire |
| Michelle Spring | 1947 | | sociologist, mystery fiction | Every Breath You Take, Standing in the Shadows, In the Midnight Hour |
| Birk Sproxton | 1943 | 2007 | | |
| Amy Spurway | | | novelist | Crow |
| Eva Stachniak | 1952 | | novelist | Necessary Lies, The Winter Garden |
| Edna Staebler | 1906 | 2006 | journalist, Mennonite cooking | Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series |
| Ted Staunton | 1956 | | children's literature, picture books | Puddleman, Who I'm Not, Harry and Clare's Amazing Staycation |
| Robert Stead | 1880 | 1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
| John Steffler | 1947 | | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright |
| Fred Stenson | 1951 | | | |
| Alexander Maitland Stephen | 1882 | 1942 | poet, novelist | The Rosary Of Pan, The Kingdom Of The Sun |
| Arran Stephens | 1944 | | | The Compassionate Diet |
| Angela Sterritt | | | journalist | Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls' |
| Richard Stevenson | 1952 | | | |
| Robin Stevenson | | | children's/young adult literature | |
| Shannon Stewart | | | poet, children's literature | |
| Walter Stewart | 1941 | 2004 | journalist, editor | |
| Bill Stilwell | | | | |
| Kathy Stinson | 1952 | | | |
| John Elizabeth Stintzi | | | poet, novelist | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat |
| Cassie Stocks | | | novelist | Dance, Gladys, Dance |
| Aryeh Lev Stollman | 1954 | | novelist, short stories | The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul |
| Anne Stone | | | | Indelible |
| Arthur G. Storey | 1915 | 2005 | novelist | Prairie Harvest |
| Allan Stratton | 1951 | | playwright |
| Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer | 1874 | 1950 | screenwriter, novelist | |
| Cordelia Strube | 1960 | | novelist, dramatist | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon |
| Alan Sullivan | 1868 | 1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
| Moez Surani | 1979 | | poet | Reticent Bodies |
| Rajiv Surendra | 1989 | | memoirist | The Elephants in My Backyard |
| Joel A. Sutherland | 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Frozen Blood |
| David Suzuki | 1936 | | scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host | The Sacred Balance, Genethics, The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future |
| Mary Swan | 1953 | | novelist, short stories | The Boys in the Trees |
| Susan Swan | 1945 | | | |
| Anna Swanson | | | poet | The Nights Also |
| Robert Sward | 1933 | | | |
| Margaret Sweatman | 1953 | | novelist | Fox, The Players |
| George Swede | 1940 | | | |
| Alastair Sweeny | 1946 | | | |
| Michael Ernest Sweet | 1979 | | | poetry, essay, nonfiction |
| Guy Sylvestre | 1918 | 2010 | journalist, critic | |
| Olivier Sylvestre | 1982 | | playwright, short stories | La beauté du monde, La loi de la gravité, Noms fictifs |
| Harry L. Symons | 1892 | 1962 | novelist, humorist | Ojibway Melody |
| Scott Symons | 1933 | 2009 | novelist, journalist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square |
| Shawn Syms | 1970 | | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar |
| George Szanto | 1940 | | novels, short stories, criticism, biography, plays | Not Working, Friends & Marriages, Theater and Propaganda, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island, Bog Tender |
| Gillian Sze | | | poet | Quiet Night Think |
| Anne Szumigalski | 1922 | 1999 | poet | Voice |

## T

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Tanya Talaga | | | journalist | Seven Fallen Feathers |
| Kenneth Tam | 1984 | | novelist | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series |
| Mariko Tamaki | 1975 | | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist | Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire |
| Darcy Tamayose | | | novelist, short stories | Odori, Ezra's Ghosts |
| Shelley Tanaka | 1950 | | editor, children's non-fiction | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic |
| Jordan Tannahill | 1988 | | playwright | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company |
| Olivia Tapiero | 1990 | | novelist | Les Murs, Rien du tout |
| Jules-Paul Tardivel | 1851 | 1905 | | |
| Damian Tarnopolsky | | | novelist, dramatist, short stories | Goya's Dog, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster |
| Dennis E. Taylor | | | novelist, short stories | Bobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap |
| Gladys Taylor | 1917 | 2015 | novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor | Pine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom |
| Timothy Taylor | 1963 | | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park |
| Saeed Teebi | | | short stories | Her First Palestinian |
| Ningeokuluk Teevee | 1963 | | children's literature | Alego |
| Wayne Tefs | 1947 | 2014 | | |
| Richard Teleky | 1944 | | novelist, poet, short stories, non-fiction | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon |
| Charles Templeton | 1915 | 2001 | | |
| John Terpstra | 1953 | | poet | |
| Bill Terry | | | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven |
| Adeline Margaret Tesky | 1855 | 1924 | novelist, short stories | Where the Sugar Maple Grows |
| Souvankham Thammavongsa | 1978 | | poet, short stories | Small Arguments, Light, How to Pronounce Knife |
| Yasuko Thanh | 1971 | | novelist, short stories | Floating Like the Dead |
| France Théoret | 1942 | | novelist, poet | L'homme qui peignait Staline, Cruauté du jeu |
| Denis Thériault | 1959 | | | |
| Yves Thériault | 1915 | 1983 | novelist, short stories | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
| Sharon Thesen | 1946 | | poet | The Good Bacteria |
| Serge Patrice Thibodeau | 1959 | | poet | Le Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague |
| Madeleine Thien | 1974 | | short stories, novelist | Simple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter |
| Kai Cheng Thom | 1991 | | novelist, poet | a place called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars |
| Audrey Thomas | 1935 | | novelist | Songs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa |
| Colin Thomas | 1939 | | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion |
| Joan Thomas | 1949 | | novelist | Reading by Lightning, Curiosity, The Opening Sky, Five Wives |
| Kai Thomas | | | novelist | In the Upper Country |
| Clayton Thomas-Müller | | | memoirist | Life in the City of Dirty Water |
| John Thompson | 1938 | 1976 | | |
| Peggy Thompson | 1901 | 2009 | screenwriter | The Lotus Eaters, Better Than Chocolate |
| Jan Thornhill | 1955 | | children's literature, science | I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC |
| Elizabeth Thornton | 1940 | 2010 | | |
| Russell Thornton | 1959 | | poet | House Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain |
| Kim Thúy | 1968 | | novelist | Ru |
| Matthew Tierney | 1970 | | poet | Probably Inevitable |
| Sara Tilley | 1978 | | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke |
| Miriam Toews | 1964 | | novelist | A Complicated Kindness, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows |
| Morley Torgov | 1927 | | | |
| Lola Lemire Tostevin | | | | |
| Gérald Tougas | 1933 | 2019 | novelist, short stories | La Mauvaise foi, Le deuxième train de la nuit |
| Paul Toupin | 1918 | 1993 | playwright, essayist, memoirist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain |
| William Toye | 1926 | 2024 | author, editor | Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson |
| Matthew J. Trafford | | | short stories | The Divinity Gene |
| Michaël Trahan | 1984 | | poet | Nœud coulant, La raison des fleurs |
| Catharine Parr Traill | 1802 | 1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
| Rhea Tregebov | 1953 | | poet | Remembering History |
| Lise Tremblay | 1957 | | | |
| Michel Tremblay | 1942 | | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs |
| Sylvain Trudel | 1963 | | novelist | |
| Stuart Trueman | 1911 | 1995 | journalist, humorist, historian | You're Only as Old as You Act |
| Brian Tucker | | | novelist | Big White Knuckles |
| Aren X. Tulchinsky | 1958 | | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature |
| Élise Turcotte | 1957 | | | |
| Roxane Turcotte | 1952 | | children's and youth literature writer | Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre |
| Pierre Turgeon | 1947 | | novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher | The First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983 |
| Chris Turner | 1973 | | non-fiction | Planet Simpson, The Geography of Hope |
| Michael Turner | 1962 | | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo |
| Arielle Twist | | | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate |

## U

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Andrew Unger | 1979 | | novelist, satirist | Once Removed, The Daily Bonnet |
| Marie Uguay | 1955 | 1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
| Chimwemwe Undi | | | poet | Scientific Marvel |
| Priscila Uppal | 1974 | 2018 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
| Emily Urquhart | 1977 | | non-fiction | Beyond the Pale, Ordinary Wonder Tales, The Age of Creativity |
| Jane Urquhart | 1949 | | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers |
| Geoffrey Ursell | 1943 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie |
| David UU (David W. Harris) | 1948 | 1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |

## V

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| W. D. Valgardson | 1939 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories |
| Pierre Vallières | 1938 | 1998 | political essayist | Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique |
| Edo Van Belkom | 1962 | | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf |
| Richard Van Camp | 1971 | | novelist, short stories, children's literature | The Lesser Blessed |
| Guy Vanderhaeghe | 1951 | | novelist, short stories | The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing |
| Aritha Van Herk | 1954 | | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address |
| Kasia Van Schaik | | | novelist | We Have Never Lived on Earth |
| A. E. van Vogt | 1912 | 2000 | science fiction | Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom |
| Jean Vanier | 1928 | 2019 | theologian | Becoming Human |
| Anuja Varghese | | | short stories | Chrysalis |
| Sugith Varughese | 1957 | | playwright, film and television | The Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones |
| M. G. Vassanji | 1950 | | novelist | The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall |
| Caelum Vatnsdal | 1970 | | film history | They Came From Within, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me |
| R. M. Vaughan | 1965 | 2020 | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells |
| Guillermo Verdecchia | 1962 | | playwright | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures |
| Robert Verdun | | | non-fiction, investigative reporting | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada |
| Paul Vermeersch | 1973 | | poet | Burn |
| Katherena Vermette | 1977 | | poet, children's literature | North End Love Songs |
| Nancy Vickers | 1946 | | novelist, poet | Capharnaum |
| Gilles Vigneault | 1928 | | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé |
| Margaret Visser | 1940 | | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate |
| Claude Vivier | 1948 | 1983 | composer, poet, librettist | Kopernikus, Lonely Child, Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire |
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | 1947 | | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères |
| Garth Von Buchholz | 1968 | | poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems |
| John Voss | 1858 | 1922 | memoirs | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss |
| Peter Vronsky | 1956 | | investigative historian, filmmaker | Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Female Serial Killers, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, Ridgeway: The Fenian-American Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 |
| Caroline Vu | 1959 | | fiction | Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown |
| Prvoslav Vujcic | 1960 | | poet, author | Thoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind |
| Dan Vyleta | 1974 | | novelist, historian | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin |

## W

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Marie Wadden | | | non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan |
| Tracey Waddleton | | | short stories | Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious |
| Mark Sweeten Wade | 1858 | 1929 | historian | The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62 |
| Richard Wagamese | 1955 | 2017 | novelist | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk |
| Colleen Wagner | 1949 | | playwright | The Monument |
| Fred Wah | 1939 | | poet, novelist | Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
| David Walker | 1911 | 1992 | novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
| Joan Walker | | | novelist | Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure |
| Aimee Wall | | | novelist | We, Jane |
| Bronwen Wallace | 1945 | 1989 | poet, short stories | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To |
| Frederick William Wallace | 1886 | 1958 | journalist, novelist | Wooden Ships and Iron Men |
| William Stewart Wallace | 1884 | 1970 | historian | The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| Paul A. W. Wallace | 1891 | 1967 | historian, anthropologist | Indians in Pennsylvania |
| Tom Walmsley | 1948 | | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin |
| Natalie Zina Walschots | 1983 | | novelist, poet | Hench |
| Eric Walters | 1957 | | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run |
| John Leigh Walters | 1933 | | creative non-fiction | A Very Capable Life |
| Jack Wang | | | short stories | We Two Alone |
| Russell Wangersky | | | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica |
| Ryan Ward | 1990 | | screenwriter | Son of the Sunshine |
| Sabrina Ward Harrison | 1975 | | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open |
| Dianne Warren | 1950 | | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water |
| David Watmough | 1926 | 2017 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
| Paul Watson | 1950 | | conservationist, author, activist, poet | Earth Force, Earth Force 2, The War that Saved the Whales, Quotations, Songs from the Southern Ocean, Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity, The Haunted Mariner, Dealing with Climate Change and Stress, Orcapedia, Captain Paul Watson: Interview With a Pirate, Urgence! Il Faut Sauver Les Océans, Seal Wars, Ocean Warrior |
| Sheila Watson | 1909 | 1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
| Alison Watt | 1957 | | creative non-fiction, poet | The Last Island |
| Thomas Waugh | 1948 | | academic, art and film historian | Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection |
| Alison Wearing | 1967 | | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah |
| Jessica L. Webb | | | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions |
| Barry Webster | 1961 | | novels, short stories; magic realism | The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones |
| Andrew Wedderburn | | | novelist | The Milk Chicken Bomb |
| John Weier | 1949 | | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree |
| Matthew James Weigel | | | poet | Whitemud Walking |
| Steve Weiner | 1947 | | novelist | The Museum of Love |
| William Weintraub | 1926 | 2017 | | |
| Helen Weinzweig | 1915 | 2010 | novelist, short stories | Basic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof |
| Merrily Weisbord | | | journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror |
| Elizabeth Wellburn | 1955 | | children's literature | Echoes From the Square |
| Zachariah Wells | 1976 | | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
| Andrea Werhun | | | memoirist | Modern Whore |
| Martin West | | | novelist, short stories | Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, Long Ride Yellow |
| Andrew Westoll | | | science, travel, non-fiction | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary |
| Robert Paul Weston | 1975 | | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City |
| Michael Wex | 1954 | | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
| Ron Weyman | 1915 | 2007 | television, mystery, memoir | Sherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast, Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise, Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West |
| Dawud Wharnsby | 1972 | | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
| Thomas Wharton | 1963 | | novelist | Salamander, Icefields |
| Sherry White | | | screenwriter | Crackie, Down to the Dirt |
| Joshua Whitehead | | | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed |
| William Whitehead | 1931 | 2018 | documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
| Douglas Whiteway | | | novelist, journalist | Father Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead |
| Zoe Whittall | 1976 | | | |
| Armin Wiebe | 1948 | | novelist, playwright | The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Tatsea |
| Rudy Wiebe | 1934 | | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many |
| Audrée Wilhelmy | 1985 | | novelist | Oss, Les Sangs |
| Helen Waldstein Wilkes | 1936 | | creative non-fiction | Letters from the Lost |
| Elyse Willems | 1986 | | children's literature | A Night in Halloween House |
| Fred Williams | 1863 | 1944 | journalism, history | The Canadian Book of Days |
| Jeffery Williams | 1920 | 2011 | military historian | Byng of Vimy, Far from Home |
| Deborah Willis | 1982 | | fiction writer | Vanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories |
| Jenny Heijun Wills | | | memoirist | Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related |
| Alan R. Wilson | | | novelist, poet | Before the Flood |
| Anne Elizabeth Wilson | 1901 | 1946 | poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer | Eager Footsteps |
| Antoine Wilson | 1971 | | novelist | Panorama City, Mouth to Mouth |
| Douglas Wilson | 1950 | 1992 | novelist, poet | Labour of Love |
| Eric Wilson | 1940 | | mysteries | Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books) |
| Ethel Wilson | 1888 | 1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
| John Wilson | 1951 | | historical fiction | Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning |
| Jonathan Wilson | | | playwright | My Own Private Oshawa, Kilt |
| Robert Charles Wilson | 1953 | | science fiction | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin |
| Sheri-D Wilson | 1958 | | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder |
| Jia Qing Wilson-Yang | 1983 | | novelist | Small Beauty |
| Carol Windley | 1947 | | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling |
| Rob Winger | 1974 | | poet | Muybridge's Horse |
| Kathleen Winter | 1960 | | novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel |
| Michael Winter | 1965 | | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why |
| Kari-Lynn Winters | 1969 | | children's literature, dramatist | Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk |
| Wyndham Wise | 1947 | | film critic and historian | Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film |
| Adele Wiseman | 1928 | 1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
| Christina Wong | | | novelist, playwright | Denison Avenue |
| Lindsay Wong | | | memoirist | The Woo Woo |
| Alan Woo | 1977 | | children's literature, poet, short stories | Maggie's Chopsticks |
| Jaime Woo | | | non-fiction | Meet Grindr |
| George Woodcock | 1912 | 1995 | poet, critic | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
| Susan Wood | 1948 | 1980 | critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | Energumen; criticism |
| Marnie Woodrow | 1969 | | novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
| Grahame Woods | 1935 | | novelist, screenwriter | Bloody Harvest, War Brides, Glory Enough for All |
| Lance Woolaver | 1948 | | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange |
| Eric Wright | 1929 | 2015 | mysteries | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
| J. F. C. Wright | 1904 | 1970 | journalist, historian | Slava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province |
| L. R. Wright | 1939 | 2001 | mysteries | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
| Richard B. Wright | 1937 | 2017 | novelist | Clara Callan |
| Sarah Wylie | 1989 | | novelist, young adult literature | All These Lives |
| Tim Wynne-Jones | 1948 | | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
| Tim Wynveen | | | novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |

## X

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Xiaowen Zeng | | | journalist, short stories | |

## Y

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| Joel Yanofsky | | | novelist | Jacob's Ladder |
| Pierre Yergeau | 1957 | | novelist | L'écrivain public |
| Ying Chen | 1961 | | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile |
| Jean Yoon | 1962 | | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project |
| Alissa York | 1970 | | novelist, short stories | Effigy |
| Elwy Yost | 1925 | 2011 | mysteries | White Shadows |
| Graham Yost | 1959 | | screenwriter | Speed |
| David Young | 1946 | | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn |
| d'bi young | 1977 | | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story |
| Ian Young | 1945 | | poet, non-fiction, journalist | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature |
| Patricia Young | 1954 | | poet, short stories | Ruin & Beauty, More Watery Still, Airstream |
| Scott Young | 1918 | 2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mysteries | A Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate |
| Terence Young | 1953 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Island in Winter, Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake's |
| Josée Yvon | 1950 | 1994 | poet, playwright | Danseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees |

## Z

| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
| A. Light Zachary | | | poet | More Sure |
| Eve Zaremba | 1930 | | mysteries | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect |
| Robert Zend | 1929 | 1985 | poet, fiction, multimedia artist | Daymares, Oāb |
| Xiran Jay Zhao | | | Novelist | Iron Widow |
| David Zieroth | 1946 | | poet | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn |
| Larry Zolf | 1934 | 2011 | journalist | Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale |
| Syd Zolf | 1968 | | poet | Human Resources, Masque |
| Daniel Zomparelli | | | poet, short stories | Davie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person |
| Carolyn Zonailo | 1947 | | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems |
| Jan Zwicky | 1955 | | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |