Claudiu Murgan is an engineer with a deep yearning for writing with a meaningful message. Originally from Romania, he started writing Sci-Fi at 11-years old and was involved in the Romanian fandom until 1997 when he decided to immigrate to Canada.

Inspiration resurfaced within Claudiu after nineteen years of a creative drought. The result of that blessing from God was “The Decadence of Our Souls”, a Fantasy novel touching on spirituality. The journey that culminated with the book mentioned above taught Claudiu that Love, Gratitude and Compassion are necessary life companions that should open one’s sensibilities to the Divine Creator.

Writing “Water Entanglement” was a blissful joy that transported Claudiu into the fascinating world of water and crystals. This new book is the author’s way of making people aware about the importance of water in our daily lives.

"Crystal Cloud", the sequel to "Water Entanglement," continues the journey of Cherry Mortinger (limnologist), Ilanda Mazandir (neurosurgen), and Kahuna Lapa'au (Hawaiian elder), into the world of water and crystals in their search for increased consciousness.

Claudiu's short stories were published in anthologies in Canada, USA, Romania, and Italy.

Connect at ClaudiuMurgan.com

Certified professional coach, university instructor, and award-winning author, Gabriela Casineanu considers life as a self-discovery journey worth exploring. Her creative and curious soul didn’t care much about the MBA and 18 years of experience in the technical field (engineering, IT, quality assurance). It found a way to turn things around, leading to coaching (individuals, teams), training, creative entrepreneurship, artistic expressions, and writing.

Through her coaching practice, Gabriela helped thousands of professionals to advance their careers, and creative entrepreneurs to understand how to use the power of their mind to become more successful.

Gabriela creatively combines concepts and techniques from various fields to help to people improve the relationships with self, career/business, and others. An introvert passionate about building a better world by tapping into introvert strengths, Gabriela founded the Introverts Academy (introvertsacademy.org).

She finds strength in nature and her spiritual journey, and loves nature photography, outdoor activities, intuitive painting, dancing breaks, and the Holographic Universe concept.

Gabriela's book series:

• Job Search/Career

• Introvert Strengths

• Photo Coaching (Self-Coaching)

• Business

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Ms Phyllis C Koppel’s short stories are published in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Austria and appear in these journals:

• Route7 Review, “Masking the Virus”

• Grow Together, co-author, “Mrs. Callender’s Cats”

• Toronto Writer’s Cooperative Anthology, volumes 5 and 6. “Lola” and “An Angry God.”

• Fish Food Magazine - “My First Mistake.”

• The Spadina Literary Review - “Otherwise Occupied.”

• The Write Way - “The Queen of Henna.”

• The Baja Times – “My feisty Spirit.”

Her self-published novel, The Story of Two Suitcases, reached the quarterfinals of Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel of the Year competition.

Her translation and editing work include:

• American Nights an Argentinian sit-com movie by Humberto Yturbide

• Love is a Foreign Word by Brazilian novelist Rogerio Soares

Countless short stories and novels waiting publication include:

• Yanga: Never a Slave! a historical novel set in 17th Century colonial México,

• Under the Seneschal’s Cupola, a fantasy dystopian novel where the population is controlled with sugar

• Legal Zzzeds follows the lives of three characters on the day the country they live in legalizes Zzzeds, a powerful drug.

• Petra’s Dream a historical novel about a woman who dreams of being the first female revolutionary General in Mexico,

Ms. Koppel studied writing in Canada at the Humber School of Writers under the late, Wayson Choy and in the United States at UCSD under Alice Walker. Born in Mexico City to American parents, she’s lived in seven countries and three continents. She lives in Toronto, until the next adventure calls.

She identifies as visible minority Latina woman immigrant. Who’s Jewish.

Paul Lebedev is a Toronto-based author and copywriter. Born in Moscow, Paul grew up in the GTA and graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in English.

Marni Dieanu is an author from Canada. She lived in several places around the world and spoke multiple languages before making Toronto her home. She has published works in Romanian, French, and English.

With two Master’s degrees in Communications and PR, Marni writes mostly for business. Marni has always loved books and poetic expressions. She views life as an explorative journey, weaving stories from every leaf, face, or event. Marni’s passion is artistic expression, and that expression may be in words, drawing, photography, or dance. For Marni, creative words have always come naturally as a form of artistic release in painting the beauty and the sorrow of the world. Fascinated by the evolution of science and the depth of the human mind, she gives her writings a psychological dimension, pushing boundaries and making readers wonder more.

Gaston is an Electrical Engineer (University of Kinshasa in RD-Congo) with a doctorate in Applied Sciences, specializing in Optical Fibers (University of Ghent in Belgium). Dr. Mabaya has had a diverse professional career as a university professor, as Honorary Dean of the Polytechnic Faculty of the University of Kinshasa, as a researcher and international consultant, as a writer in French and English, and as a Permanent Deacon in the Diocese of London, Ontario

The author of several books, Dr. Mabaya is passionate about literature and education.

Emanuel is a digital marketing specialist in Toronto. Originally from Romania, he came to Canada in late 2016. Emanuel has a curious mind and the Shoshin mentality (a beginner's mindset). He approaches each project with the same enthusiasm as his first.

Aside from his digital marketing activities, Emanuel likes to spend his time reading and sometimes, writing. He has written articles for different magazines and has been featured as an expert on several digital marketing round-ups, (SEMRush – a

popular SEO and marketing automation platform, for example).

In Romania, he developed online projects for audio recording, including writing an electronic book on home recording for

the website and community that Romania had (at that time).

He has also written a blog which has been more like a therapeutic journal.

His latest business endeavours are in digital marketing and in the blockchain environment, and he assists Immigrant Writers Association as a marketing manager.

More information on his website: https://emanuelp.com/

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The Immigrant Writers Association (IWA) is a non-profit corporation that provides programs, activities, and services that empower and support immigrant* writers in their journeys.

Our mission:

To encourage more immigrants to express themselves through writing, to increase awareness, compassion, and peace in the world.

We hope that our initiative will also inspire non-immigrants to open up more and share their knowledge, expertise, and talents—so together we can build a better world for all of us!

All proceeds from IWA's anthologies go to IWA's programming and publishing annual anthologies written by members.

https://immigrantwriters.com

*Our members are writers and upcoming writers who are 1st and 2nd generation Canadian immigrants.

Soulsne is an aspiring world class storyteller and spiritual life coach. She works in Human Resources in the beautiful city of Toronto, which she now calls home. She immigrated to Canada around 2010 and has not looked back. She truly believes her bold decision of immigrating to a country where she had no friends or family was one of the best decisions she ever made.

As a first-generation immigrant, Soulsne is proud of what she has achieved and believes in leading by example. She is a huge advocate of mental health and self-care and uses her life experiences as an immigrant and as the first woman in her family to immigrate overseas and winning her battles with anxiety and depression to help other individuals through their holistic healing journeys

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David Albertyn (1983) was born in Durban, South Africa, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He studied at Queen’s University and the Humber School for Writers, and coached tennis until the publication of his first novel, “Undercard” (2019), which was a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award and made 49th Shelf’s Top Fiction List of 2019. Among many sports, he primarily competed in track and field growing up, then in tennis as an adult. When he completes a draft of a novel, he does as much yoga and running in nature as he can, promptly burns out, and as soon as he’s recovered, it’s time to work on a new draft. His goal is to write visceral novels that are both thrilling and meaningful.