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• Barbara K. Adamski

  Vancouver, British Columbia

  A writer, editor, and certified proofreader, Barb has worked on educational manuals, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, and web copy. She writes for several magazines and trade publications and has written and recorded for CBC Radio. A stickler for facts, she is a regular contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Barb has a B.A. in French Literature, a diploma in professional writing and editing, and an M.A. in Integrated Studies (specializing in cultural studies). An avid lacrosse fan, Barb's thesis is on the history of lacrosse, a topic she has written about extensively. She also speaks Japanese.

• Erica Alini

  Toronto, ON

  Erica Alini is a Toronto-based journalist at Maclean’s, where she focuses on international politics and business, but also pens the occasional culture and society feature. She has written for The Wall Street Journal’s economics desk, and Foreign Policy magazine, among other media outlets, and for the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank based in New York.

  She grew up in Milan, Italy, and is bilingual. She has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, in Washington, DC. She has also lived in Iran and speaks, reads, and writes intermediate-level Farsi.

• Bert Archer

  Toronto, ON

  Bert Archer was born in Montreal, and raised and educated in Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Dublin and Toronto. He started work as a journalist in 1993, and has worked for many newspapers and magazines as an editor, manager, writer and columnist.

• Gabrielle Bauer

  Toronto, ON

  Gabrielle has been a freelance writer for the past 16 years. She has written articles in just about all the major Canadian magazines, along with two published books. She's won several writing awards, including National Magazine Awards, KRW Awards, and the Canada Japan Book Prize (for her first book). Gabrielle also does medical writing for a large roster of pharmaceutical and pharma-marketing companies.

• Michael Benedict

  Toronto, ON

  Michael Benedict offers writing, editing and consulting services to a diverse group of not-for-profit and for-profit clients. Michael worked in journalism for three decades, including 19 years as an editor at Maclean’s. He also was a director of corporate communications with both the province of Ontario and Canada Post. In 2005, Michael established MCB Strategies, a Vendor of Record for writing services for the Ontario government and registered with the federal government’s Professional Services Online. In the corporate and journalistic worlds, Michael has dealt with prime ministers, premiers, cabinet ministers and CEOs. He is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada and the Editors’ Association of Canada.

• Luigi Benetton

  Toronto, ON

  A communications professional for more than ten years, Luigi has written for organizations such as Microsoft, MTS Allstream, and the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Health. He has written white papers, case studies, blog posts, executive profiles, reports, Web copy, and a variety of other materials. Also, Luigi has contributed to consumer and trade publications such as The Toronto Star, itbusiness.ca and cbc.ca.

  Luigi focuses on demystifying the technology industry, especially the value it offers. He has also written on topics as diverse as the business of law, green building and professional squash.

• Suzanne Boles

  London, Ontario

  Suzanne is an award-winning freelance journalist/writer. She has been freelancing for over 16 years. A former assistant editor of London Magazine, her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Suzanne also works with business clients. specializing in case studies and profiles, as well as copy writing, editing, website copy and speech writing. She is a writing instructor at Western University (London, ON) Continuing Studies department. A member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) since 1996, Suzanne was on the organization's national Board of Directors for six years serving as Ontario Regional Director, Vice President, President and Past President. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), and the Canadian Freelancers Union.

• Lynn Coady

  Edmonton, AB

  Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist, editor and journalist living in Edmonton, Alberta.  She has published four award winning works of fiction and has acted as editor on novels and anthologies published by Doubleday Canada, House of Anansi Press, and Brindle and Glass Publishing.  She is also a writing teacher and mentor and regularly contributes non-fiction to magazines and newspapers across Canada.  She writes a weekly advice column for the Globe and Mail, and is the co-founder and senior editor of a the magazine Eighteen Bridges.  Her new novel, The Antagonist, will be published by House of Anansi in Fall 2011.

• Trevor Cole

  Hamilton, ON and Toronto, ON

  Editor Gary Salewicz has called Trevor “a consummate professional” endowed with “prodigious talent,” a writer who is fearless in his pursuit of the story and serious about his craft. Trevor worked as a magazine editor at The Globe and Mail for a dozen years before turning full-time to writing. In addition to his journalism he has won awards for his satire. And as a novelist he has garnered national acclaim, praised for fiction that is both funny and profound, and for prose “as clear as a mountain stream.”

• Christy Ann Conlin

  Halifax, NS

  Christy Ann Conlin is a bestselling novelist, essayist, speech writer, ghost writer, editor, motivational speaker and educator.  Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies and journals in Canada and the United States. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an Education Degree from Acadia University.  She works with a broad range of clients in a creative capacity, providing writing services, writing workshops, coaching and mentoring.

• Lynn Crosbie

  Toronto, Ontario Canada

  Lynn Crosbie is a Toronto-based writer, with a Ph.D in English Literature. She teaches at U of T and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and writes for a number of publications. She has published books of poetry, written screenplays, and more recently, a short-story collection, with House of Anansi press. She worked at Young and Rubicam most recently, as a digital/writer.

• Pamela Cuthbert

  Toronto, Ontario

  Journalist Pamela Cuthbert is recognized for her regular columns on food issues and food trends. Her work has appeared in publications such as Macleans, The Economist, Saveur and Common Dreams. She also writes about culture, the arts and travel and has profiled a wide range of notables from leading scientists to celebrity chefs, pioneering farmers to influential advocates. Additionally, her skills are tapped for editing, speechwriting and developing marketing materials.

• Moira Farr

  Ottawa and Cobourg, Ontario

  Moira Farr is an award-winning writer and editor whose essays, reviews, and feature articles have appeared in numerous publications and several writing anthologies. Her areas of interest include women’s issues, mental health, nature and environment, literature and design. She has worked as an editor for magazines such as Equinox and THIS Magazine. Her first book, After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor’s Tale (HarperFlamingo, 1999) was shortlisted for a number of awards and was also The Edmonton Journal’s top pick for non-fiction that year. Chapters of After Daniel appear in The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs (2001) and the upcoming Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Memoir. She served on the faculty of the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program from 2001 to 2009. She teaches in the Professional Writing program of Algonquin College and at Carleton University’s School of Journalism. Moira's website can be found at www.moirafarr.com.

• Heather Finley

  Toronto, ON

  Heather Finley has been translating complex ideas into selling copy for more than 25 years. She has been freelancing since 1993.

  Heather’s work builds bridges from her clients’ ideas to the intended audience in clear, straightforward language. Her style flexes where it’s needed: formal for black-tie concepts, relaxed for audiences with a more casual culture. Her integrity and ability to see the full picture of business objectives have earned long-term loyalty from her clientele.

  Heather’s portfolio includes a wide range of print and interactive media.

• Jeff Gailus

  Canmore, Alberta

  For the past 15 years, Jeff Gailus has been writing about science, nature and the people and politics that determine its fate. An award-winning writer from Calgary, Alberta, he is the author of The Grizzly Manifesto (Rocky Mountain Books, 2010) and numerous magazine articles.  He has also worked with a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, David Suzuki Foundation, Natural Resources Defence Council, TELUS World of Science — Calgary, and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

  His work has been acknowledged for a number of awards, including Story of the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press, numerous nominations for magazine feature writing at the western Canada and national levels, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He also received a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship, awarded each year to support “future conservation leaders.”

  He has taught writing at both the University of Oregon and the University of Montana, where he completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Studies. He currently lives in Canmore, Alberta.

• Alison Garwood-Jones

  Toronto, ON

  Alison Garwood-Jones is an award-winning writer, blogger and a former editor with Elle Canada and Viva magazines. She was recently cited as a favourite blogger by BrazenCareerist.com, a Washington D.C.-based work-related website for "next- generation professionals" that has been profiled by 60 Minutes. Before landing in print media, Alison was a museum intern, fellow and curator in Chicago, Washington D.C., Paris and her hometown of Hamilton, Ont. This was followed by a three-year stint in film where she worked as a historical consultant and writer for a series of artist biopics that aired on HBO and PBS. Alison's blog, "Society Pages," explores her take on human nature.

• Don Genova

  Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia

  Don Genova is a writer and broadcaster currently based in BC, and has worked in Alberta, Ontario and Newfoundland. He has a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and Master in Food Culture from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. A former CBC Radio host, producer and reporter, Don is most known for his "Pacific Palate" and "Food For Thought" food columns heard across Canada and he also works in print, online and television.  Don teaches food and travel writing courses at UBC, and food culture and cooking classes at a variety of outlets in Victoria.

• Don Gillmor

  Toronto, ON

  Don Gillmor is the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and two other books of non-fiction, The Desire of Every Living Thing and I Swear by Apollo. He has also written eight books for children, including The Fabulous Song, which won the Mr. Christie Award and was nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and Yuck, A Love Story. His children’s books have been published in eight countries. He has worked as a journalist and was a senior editor at Walrus magazine, and contributing editor at both Saturday Night and Toronto Life. His journalism has appeared in those publications as well as The Globe and Mail, Rolling Stone, and GQ magazines. He has won nine National Magazine Awards. His novel, Kanata, was published by Penguin last year.

  He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.

• Darrell Harvey

  Ottawa, ON

  Darrell is a writer, editor and broadcaster who produces features and documentaries for English-language media outlets around the world. He has travelled widely, spending much of the past decade reporting from Europe, Africa and Latin America, writing about everything from urban farming and Romanian gold mines to locked-out NHLers and, perhaps his favourite, Hungary's Whiskey Robber, the post-Communist country's own scotch-swilling, bank robbing Robin Hood. Darrell also operates his own audio production company and does communications work for corporate, academic and non-profit clients.

• Ian Harvey

  Toronto, Ontario

  Ian Harvey is an established freelance writer who has worked in marketing, media relations, marketing and daily newspapers for more than 35 years. He specializes in crisis communications planning, media training, media strategies and content creation for a variety of media and business needs. Whether it’s a magazine feature, a breaking story for a newspaper, a case study, web content, white paper, sales brochure Ian’s got it covered.

• David Hayes

  Toronto, ON

  David Hayes is an award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor and teacher. A generalist, his special areas of interest are culture, media, social issues and advertising/marketing/branding. A long-time instructor, later faculty member, at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, today he teaches Advanced Feature Writing in Ryerson’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Studies. He also has lectured and given workshops on various aspects of writing and journalism to a variety of organizations.

• Robert Hercz

  Toronto, ON

  Robert earned a degree in engineering at the University of Toronto in 1979 and spent a decade in the computer industry, based in London (England), Toronto, and finally Los Angeles. During this time, he worked with a fascinating range of clients including the Vatican, the Los Alamos National Laboratories (home of the atomic bomb), and the National Library of France. Finding himself more interested in his clients’ backstories than their computer systems (and unfulfilled by corporate life), he became a full-time writer in 1990. Robert is also an avid photographer and regularly sells photos that illustrate his writing.

• David Israelson

  Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

  David Israelson is a well-known writer, editor, manager and non-practising lawyer — known for his ability to analyze complex issues and make them easy to understand.

  David has worked at the Toronto Star, as environment reporter, housing reporter, business writer and editorial writer. From 1990 to 1993 he was Western Europe Bureau Chief, based in London. His longer works include two books and an academic paper on energy policy. In 2011-12 he was Senior Writer for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. David is Principal of Eon Communications and Research. He is a dual Canada/U.S. citizen, a committed volunteer and a musician.

• Ilona Kauremszky

  Toronto, ON

  Follow your dream job. That’s what travel journalist Ilona Kauremszky has been pursuing full-time for 10-plus years.  Ilona travels the world and reports on destinations and the next big travel trend for major publications across North America. She works with leading guidebook companies, writes a weekly travel column and co-produces mycompass.ca and its digital tv channel, mycompasstv. A consummate traveler who enjoys meeting new cultures and people, Ilona has ample story ideas to suit any publication. She’s worked with blue-chip companies, custom publishers, and tourism boards and is actively working with digital media.

• Colleen Kimmett

  Vancouver, BC

  Colleen Kimmett is an award-winning journalist focused on all aspects of sustainability: what we eat, where we live and how we get around. As a contributing editor at TheTyee.ca, she specializes in examining and explaining innovative solutions to environmental problems. Some of her most popular articles have looked at recycling buildings, growing the local food movement, harnessing energy from city sewers and solar power on First Nations reserves.

  Colleen is currently at work on her first book, about British Columbia’s most famous icon – the sasquatch.

• Jeremy Klaszus

  Calgary, Alberta

  Jeremy Klaszus is an Alberta journalist who has won multiple national and regional magazine awards for his work. He ghostwrote Ian Tyson’s bestselling 2010 memoir, The Long Trail: My Life in the West, for Random House Canada. Jeremy freelances for publications including Swerve, Reader’s Digest and the Globe and Mail. He also writes a twice-a-month column for the Calgary Herald, and works as a part-time journalism instructor at Mount Royal University. In 2009, Jeremy’s award-winning story “Mr. Tree” was published in the anthology Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction (Thomas Allen).

• Nick Krewen

  Toronto, ON

  Over 32 years, Nick Krewen has written about entertainment for newspapers and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand; interviewed Bob Dylan, Prince and Phil Collins; reviewed music (CDs and concerts), books, movies and DVDs; had his articles referenced in books about Shania Twain, Bob Dylan and country music; written sparkling copy for major corporations like General Motors, Universal Music and CARAS; edited Juno Award and CCMA souvenir programs; and written about romance, the environment, humour and consumerism.

  Praised for clean copy, accuracy, and an ability to clarify complex issues, this recently published author is also house trained.

• Christine Langlois

  Toronto, ON

  Christine Langlois is a widely published magazine writer with a talent for narrative and experience writing everything from features to personal essays to service. Christine specializes in health and medical pieces but regularly covers a wide range of topics. She’s the author on one book, lead author on another and editor of a three-book series. To promote her books and articles, Christine has given speeches, done book tours, and made numerous radio and television appearances. Christine also writes and edits copy, and manages communications projects for a roster of corporate and government clients. Her website can be viewed at http://www.christinelanglois.com/.

• Benjamin Leszcz

  London, UK

  Benjamin Leszcz is a freelance writer and editor living in London, UK. Leszcz worked as an associate editor at Saturday Night, once Canada’s oldest consumer magazine, and Toro, a men’s magazine where he edited the style section, before joining enRoute, Air Canada’s in-flight magazine, as senior editor. Most recently, Leszcz co-launched the award-winning online men’s magazine DailyXY.com.

• Brooke Lockyer

  Toronto, Ontario

  Brooke Lockyer’s short stories, copywriting, reviews, and features on contemporary culture and the arts have been published in numerous publications in Canada, England, and the United States. A graduate from Columbia University (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA), she has also mentored children, teens, and women in literacy and creative writing programs such as Let’s Get Ready, Neighbourhood Diaries, and Sister Writes. An intrepid traveler with a penchant for adventure, Brooke has penned rejection letters for Esquire magazine in New York City, taught high school English in rural Japan, and participated in fiction workshops in Kenya, Bristol, and Montreal.

• Jason McBride

  Toronto, ON

  Jason McBride is a former editor at Toronto Life and Coach House Books, where he was co-editor of the popular uTOpia series, among other books. He is currently a full-time freelance writer and editor.

• Paul McLaughlin

  Toronto, ON

  Paul is a highly experienced writer, communications specialist, interviewing and performance trainer and university teacher. He writes for both the journalism and corporate markets, and has produced virtually every kind of publication (as well as a few videos), including magazine and newspaper features, books, scripts, trade articles (ghosted at times), brochures, ad campaigns and plays.

  The author of Asking Questions: The Art of the Media Interview, he’s trained interviewers at the CBC and in private practice, and has lectured extensively on interviewing.

  He teaches in the Professional Writing program at York University, and previously at the schools of journalism at Ryerson and Carleton universities.

• Jesse McLean

  Toronto, ON

  Jesse McLean is an award-winning humorist and culture commentator whose disciplines include technical writing, screenwriting, film and television criticism, humour articles and sketch comedy.  These varied talents conspire to deliver incisive, thoughtful and creative copy.  He has written process documentation for BMO, dialogue punch-up for Joe Flaherty and Brigitte Nielsen, ruminations on Wilhelm Reich’s “orgone accumulator” for PopMatters, how Rainer Maria Rilke might have negotiated Facebook for Yankee Pot Roast, and the inherent difficulties interviewing zombies for Eyes on Toronto with Stephen Eyes. Impromptu dance numbers lack technical grace but brim with “pizzazz”.

• Katrina Onstad

  Toronto, ON

  Published around the world, award-winning writer Katrina Onstad began her career by parlaying a coffee-fetching internship at Canadian Business magazine into several cover stories. In the past decade, she’s turned her critical eye to arts, culture  and social issues with work in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and many other publications.

• Patricia Pearson

  Toronto, ON

  A versatile writer across media and styles, Pearson is particularly well-known for her comic flair. She has been called “highly amusing” by the New York Times, and been compared to Dorothy Parker and Mark Twain. Clients have tapped her for speeches, screenplays and articles that require a comedic touch. As a serious journalist, Pearson specializes in health and social issues, and with a graduatelevel background in history, clients have hired her for corporate and personal biographies.

• Diane Peters

  Toronto, ON

  Diane is a full-time freelance writer and part-time journalism instructor. To all her work she brings creative story ideas, strong research skills, top-notch writing and curiosity for new topics. Her extensive experience writing health and science stories, and for the children’s book market, have given her additional skills in making dense material a great read.

• Karen Pinchin

  Fredericton, New Brunswick

  Karen Pinchin loves telling a good story, whether she’s writing, editing, Tweeting or doing some of all three. A professionally trained chef, she’s a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers across Canada, and you can still find her in the kitchen working towards her Red Seal.

  Originally from Toronto, Karen has lived and worked in Vancouver, New York and Quebec City, and is now happy to call the Maritimes home.

• Paul Russell

  Toronto, ON

  Paul Russell has worked as a writer and marketing and communications consultant since 1993. He has an English degree from the University of Western Ontario and a law degree from the University of Toronto. His legal practice from 1988 to 1992 was in the group benefits and pension area, providing him with extensive expertise in the areas of human resources, retirement savings, investments, pensions, personal tax, and estate planning.

  Paul’s marketing and communications work supports the initiatives of a wide range of organizations – from banks and insurance companies, to professional services firms, to hospitality and entertainment companies.

• Rachel Sanders

  Vancouver, BC

  Rachel Sanders is a Vancouver writer, broadcaster and photographer. She has a keen sense of story and a passion for seeking out hidden gems and unappreciated works of genius. Born and raised in Edmonton, she moved in 1999 to Vancouver, where she freelances for a variety of media, corporate, and PR clients. In 2006, she co-wrote and worked as stills photographer on the short film, “Swimming Lessons,” which was nominated for Best Short at the Hollywood Film Fest. Her current focus is writing and producing documentaries for CBC Radio.

• Ingrid Sapona

  Toronto, ON

  Ingrid’s been making complex business information clear since 1997. She has a journalism degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University and belongs to the New York and Ontario bars. It was while practicing law that she realized she has a special talent for making complicated, technical information understandable.

  Ingrid works with professionals and business leaders, creating communications that satisfy strategic business and regulatory requirements. Using plain language principles, she measures success by whether people understand the issue or idea the first time the read it because if they do, they’re more likely to act on it.

  She writes a regular column called “Writer’s Edge” that appears in The Business Valuator, a quarterly publication of the CICBV.

• Denis Seguin

  Toronto, ON

  An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Denis Seguin has been writing about what interests him in such publications as The Walrus and The Globe and Mail in Canada, Slate in the US and The Times and The Guardian in the UK. He wrote and co-produced the feature documentary How to Start Your Own Country, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. As well, he co-wrote the feature documentary 100 Films And A Funeral, the story of the first Hollywood film studio not run from Hollywood. His short film, It’s My Right, won the $10,000 first prize in Canadian Film Centre’s 2010 Reel Challenge.

• Christopher Shulgan

  Toronto, ON

  Christopher Shulgan is the author of two books and a contributor of essays and research-intensive feature articles to numerous magazines and newspapers in Canada and the United States. He writes a parenting column for Eye Weekly and blogs frequently at www.shulgan.com. Shulgan also is an accomplished ghostwriter who can mold his writing to fit the narrative voice of any number of anonymous clients on Bay Street and in corporate Canada.

• Craig Silverman

  Montreal, PQ

  Craig Silverman is an award winning journalist, media critic, digital journalism expert, and author. He is managing editor of PBS MediaShift, a weekly columnist for Columbia Journalism Review and the digital journalism director of OpenFile, a collaborative local news website. Craig is a former columnist and blogger for The Globe and Mail, and the founder and editor of RegretTheError.com, a website that reports on media accuracy and corrections. He also serves as an advisor to MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation News Challenge grant recipient led by Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg, and is national vice president of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.

• Russell Smith

  Toronto, ON

  Russell Smith is a specialist in contemporary art, literature and urban culture. His articles have been published in most Canadian and several U.S. journals. He currently writes two weekly columns for The Globe and Mail, one on culture, the other on style. He was the host and writer of the popular CBC Radio 1 program on language, “And Sometimes Y”, for two seasons. He is a co-founder of the online men’s magazine DailyXY.com. He is also novelist: his fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Fiction Prize and the City Of Toronto Book Award. He won a National Magazine Award for fiction in 1997. His most recent novel is Girl Crazy.

• Jay Somerset

  Toronto, ON

  Writer, editor, proofreader and copywriter—Jay Somerset has been dealing in words for nearly 10 years. Articles have ranged from an etiquette guide to Toronto to a five-part newspaper series on a Toronto advertising company to an essay on the aesthetics of AM radio. As well, Jay also has ample editing experience. Besides journalism, he also works as an advertising copywriter. He holds two university degrees, is a board member for two arts organizations and enjoys solo camping and collecting weird records.

• Grant B. Stoddard

  Vancouver, BC and Whistler, BC

  Subcultures, pop culture, sex/relationships, nascent trends and eccentric characters are all grist for British-born Grant Stoddard’s mill. With an eye for the surprising and ridiculous, Stoddard often reports from a participatory perspective; imbuing his stories with an engaging, visceral, dynamic feel and a humanistic focus. Working in newspapers, magazines, blogs, books, film, music, television and theatre has given Stoddard a vast spectrum of experience in working with different clients with wildly varying aesthetic requirements.

• Micah Toub

  Toronto, ON and New York, NY

  Micah Toub is a writer living in Toronto. His first book, Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks, was published this year. After graduating from McGill University, Toub worked in public relations in New York before moving into editorial at an art magazine. In 2002, he moved to Toronto, where he was an editor at Toro Magazine and then at The Globe and Mail’s weekend Globe Toronto section. Recently, Toub has been writing "The Other Half," a biweekly relationship column from a male perspective for The Globe and Mail, as well as blogging for Psychology Today.

• Eric Veillette

  Toronto, ON

• Paul Wilson

  Blue Mountains, ON and Toronto, ON

  Paul Wilson has extensive experience as a magazine editor, radio producer, drama and fiction translator, journalist, and freelance writer. He was senior editor of Saturday Night magazine from 1998 – 2002; he helped establish The Walrus, serving as its editor-in-chief until his resignation in 2004. He has written for Books in Canada, The Idler Magazine, CBC radio, and the National Post, where he also edited the Review section. He contributes a regular column to Our Homes magazine. He is currently writing a memoir about his ten years in communist Czechoslovakia.

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