Lance Gerard Woolaver (born 1948) is a Canadian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and director.

He wrote with his mother, and the resulting article, "The Joyful Art of Maud Lewis," published in December 1975, was purchased for $700, a sum he considered "a fortune" at the time.

Woolaver published earlier stories in the 1970s in Canadian literary magazines, including the Wascana Review[6] (which ceased publication in 2012) and The Fiddlehead.

Woolaver enjoys flyfishing in the Canadian Rockies, and on the Margaree River in Cape Breton Island.

His play The Poor Farm, was produced at the Chester Playhouse under the direction of Christopher Heide of Mahone Bay.

It was the first play in Nova Scotia to engage actors of Mi’kmaq, White, Black and Acadian heritage in the same production.

The cover image of Maud Lewis in the sunny corner of her tiny house has been recognized as a classic portrait, said to rank with the work of Yousuf Karsh.

[4] His play The Return of Her Child deals with issues related to the adoption of Maud Lewis's daughter Catherine by Mamie Crosby.

[4] The Outlaw League (1991) is a young adult novel, which Woolaver set in his home town of Digby, Nova Scotia.