Sept/Oct 2009 contributors

Briarpatch Magazine
September/October 2009

Tyler McCreary is a PhD student in geography at York University, where he studies the landscapes of educational disparity.

Joelle Renstrom lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches literature, writing and communications. Her work has appeared in Carousel, the Allegheny Review, Sycamore Review, the New York Inquirer and Sonic Clash. She is currently working on a collection of essays.

Jacquie McTaggart is a longtime teacher and a frequent speaker at International Reading Association conferences. She lives in Independence, Iowa, with her husband, Carroll.

Alethea Spiridon is a freelance editor and writer based near Durham, Ontario. She eagerly awaits the day her student debt is entirely paid off. She can be reached through her website at freelanceeditor.ca.

Jacqueline Cusack McDonald is the Director at OpenMedia.ca (formerly Campaign for Democratic Media) and Campaign Manager for the upcoming “Reinventing Journalism” campaign. Steve Anderson is the National Coordinator at OpenMedia.ca and author of the syndicated “Media Links” column.

When she’s not processing your Briarpatch renewal orders, mailing your magazines or gratefully accepting your donations, Shayna Stock spends her time journaling, breathing, and writing love poems to her bicycle. Sue Stock is a Grade 3/4 teacher who lives in Sarnia, Ontario. She sees magic in simple things like fresh local vegetables and the wind on Lake Huron, and shares her daughter’s passion for breath and bicycles. This is their first journalistic collaboration.

Chris Benjamin is a freelance writer based in Halifax. He can be reached at chrisbenjaminwriting.com.

A graduate of the Thompson Rivers University School of Journalism, Colin Payne is a reporter/photographer at the Nelson Daily News. His freelance writing and photography have also appeared in the Fitzhugh and Breathe Magazine.

Leslie Jermyn is a social anthropologist. She has been teaching in post-secondary institutions in Canada and abroad for 16 years.

Michelle Miller is currently beginning her PhD in Education at York University. Her first book, Branding Miss G__: Third Wave Feminists and the Media, was released in 2008 by Sumach Press.

Anna Kirkpatrick lives in the West Kootenay region of B.C. She is currently learning how to play the guitar and grow dry beans for winter storage.

Don Sawyer is an educator, writer and international development worker who lives with his wife, Jan, in Salmon Arm, B.C. Don recently retired from Okanagan College, where he taught adult education, served as the college’s ABE Department Chair and was Director of the International Development Centre.

Cover illustrator Nick Craine’s work has appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times and UTNE Reader. Most recently he completed a series of illustrations for Terry Griggs’ Thought You Were Dead.

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