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Carol A. Adams [POETRY] grew up in South-East England. She studied for a year at l'Alliance Francaise in Paris and later emigrated to Canada. She worked at the Scarborough Public Library Board for a number of years. A recent mature graduate of York University, Carol majored in English and Creative Writing and now lives in North Toronto with her husband, a native Nova Scotian, and their two sons.

Jerry Amernic [INTERVIEW] is a Toronto writer. He published his first novel, Gift of the Bambino, in 2002.  The novel spent 11 years bouncing between agents and editors.

[FICTION] Jennifer Amey's short fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz and Eyeshot, and essays and opinion in *Spark, Hive Magazine, McSweeneys, and The Globe and Mail. Together with Toronto writer Jill Murray, she co-founded and co-hosts Itch: the reading series. She is working on her first novel, Sundowning, with the support of the Toronto Arts Council.

Ozdemir Asaf [POETRY] was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1923. His major poetry collections include: Dunya Kacti Gozume (The World Caught My Eye, 1955), Sen Sen Sen (You You You, 1956), Cicekleri Yemeyin (Don't Eat The Flowers, 1975), Yalnizlik Paylasilmaz (Loneliness Can't be Shared, 1971) and Benden Sonra Mutluluk (The happiness After Me, published posthumously in 1983). In his lifetime Asaf won substantial critical acclaim for the uniqueness of his work and earned a large readership. Since his death his first five collections, printed in a single volume, have extended to sixteen editions. In 2001, Asaf's entire works were re-issued in their original single volume form by Adam Publishing, Istanbul, to mark the 20th anniversary of the poet’s death.

Thea Atkinson [FICTION] is a freelance writer in Nova Scotia obsessed with fiction. She has had stories in QWERTY, Thought Magazine, Regina Weese, Vestal Review, Captains of Consciousness, Zygote, Canadian Stories, Happy, ShyFlowers Garden, and on CBC radio one. She is shopping her latest novel and writing her seventh. More at http://users.eastlink.ca/~wondershed 

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Aidan Baker [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] is a Toronto-based writer and musician who has published internationally in such magazines as Intangible, Stanzas and The Columbia Review.

Terry Barker [ESSAYS, AL PURDY FEATURE] teaches Canadian Studies at Humber College. His collection of essays After Acorn: Meditations on the Message of Canada's People's Poet is published by Mekler & Deahl.

Eric Barstad [POETRY, REVIEWS] teaches English and Creative Writing at Augustana University College in Camrose, Alberta. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in The Amethyst Review, The Antigonish Review, Event, Grain, The Malahat Review, Other Voices, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Wascana Review, and Zygote.

John Barton [INTERVIEW, POEMS] has written eight collections of poetry and three chapbooks, including Notes toward a Family Tree (1995 Ottawa Book Award), Designs from the Interior (1995 Archibald Lampman Award), Sweet Ellipsis (1999 Archibald Lampman Award), and Shroud. A new edition of his third book of poetry, West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait (1988 Archibald Lampman Award) was republished in a new and expanded edition in 1999 by Beach Holme. Barton’s eighth collection, Hypothesis, was published by House of Anansi Press in 2001. 

Michel Basilieres [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] has written for Faux Pas, Way Station and other journals, and radio drama for the CBC. He's just completed a novel and now lives in Toronto, where he misses the food culture of Montreal - especially the bread. His first novel, Black Bird, was released in 2003.

Derek Beaulieu [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Housepress.

JC Bellringer [REVIEW] is a writer living in London, Ontario.

[INTERVIEW] Jonathan Bennett’s first novel After Battersea Park (Raincoast Books) appeared in 2001 to critical acclaim. His next book, Verandah People, is a collection of short stories set in Australia.

Roy Bentley [POETRY] writes: "My poems have appeared in magazines such as The Southern Review, The North American Review, The Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner and others. I've published two books of poems: Boy in a Boat (Univ of Alabama, 1986) and Any One Man (Bottom Dog Books, 1992). I've won Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship awards 5 times--in short, I've been doing this a while. I teach creative writing at Ohio University's Zanesville Campus and make my home in Ohio."

Robert James Berry [POETRY] was born in the UK and now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He's been published widely and his first volume, Smoke, appeared in 2000.

Brooke Biaz [FICTION] is co-director of the UK Centre for Creative Writing (Research Through Practice) and holds the National Book Council Award for New Fiction, the Premier's Award for New Fiction, and the first doctorate in creative writing awarded in Australia. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment, the Arts and Humanities Board and the British Academy, Brooke is currently working on a new novel and can be contacted, eeeeelly, on g.harper@bangor.ac.uk 

Joe Blades [POETRY] is the publisher of Broken Jaw Press and the author of River Suite. He lives and writes in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Ace Boggess [POETRY] of Huntington, WV, received his B.A. from Marshall University and his Juris Doctorate from West Virginia University. His latest chapbook is Desire's Orchestra (TLD: 1998). His poetry has appeared or will appear soon in Notre Dame Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Portland Review, Concho Review, The Baltimore Review, Potomac Review, Cider Press Review, Beacon Street Review, and many other journals.

Sarah Bonet [REVIEW] is a poet, and award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She is also associated with the MFA program at San Francisco State University.

Anne Borden [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] lives in Toronto, where she works as a writer and editor.

Alex Boyd [BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAY, INTERVIEW] is the host of the IV lounge reading series in Toronto, Ontario. Alex is a writer of poems, essays and fiction. His creative writing has appeared in WORD, Ink, dig, Taddle Creek, and various other places, while essays and articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, The Danforth Review, and Quill and Quire. To read some of Alex’s work, visit his web site: www.alexboyd.com. 

Kate Braid [INTERVIEW] has published three poetry collections: Covering Rough Ground (1991); To This Cedar Fountain (1995); and Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr (1998), all published by Polestar. She has also published numerous essays and two books of non-fiction: Red Bait! co-authored with Al King (Kingbird, 1998); and Emily Carr: Rebel Artist (XYZ Publishing, 2000). Her poetry and non-fiction have been widely anthologized. Most recently she edited The Fish Come in Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery (Strawberry Hill, 2002). Her books have won the Pat Lowther and the VanCity Book Prizes, and been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Prize (BC Book Prizes), the Pat Lowther Prize and the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award.

Susan Briscoe [INTERVIEWER] is currently completing her MA in creative writing at Concordia University.

[POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS] Stephen Brokwell's second book, Cometology, was published by ECW in spring 2001. This poem is from a new manuscript "The Rage of History". Stephen lives in Ottawa with his family and works at Autodesk, an automated design company.

Andy Brown [INTERVIEW] is a Montreal writer and publisher. He is the co-editor of You & Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Véhicule Press) and Running with Scissors (Cumulus Press), the latter co-edited with Meg Sircom. He is a contributing editor for Matrix magazine and the publisher and founder of Conundrum Press. I Can See You Being Invisible (DC Books, 2004) is his first book of fiction. 

[POETRY] Douglas Brown's "Rhapsody" won second prize in Matrix's 1998 "End of the World" contest. He teaches at John Abbott College in Montreal.

Michael Bryson [BOOK REVIEWS, EDITORIALS, INTERVIEWS] is the publisher and editor of The Danforth Review. He is the author of two books of short stories and a servant of the people of Ontario. More information: michaelbryson.com. 

Tony Burgess [INTERVIEW] lives in Stayner Ontario, with his wife Rachel Jones and their son, Griffin. He is the author of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, and Caesarea. Pontypool has been optioned for a film by Bruce McDonald.

Janet Buck [POETRY] teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry and poetics have appeared in The Melic Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, 2River View, Tintern Abbey, Southern Ocean Review, The Horsethief's Journal and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 1998 and 1999, she has received numerous creative writing awards and been a featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Poetry Today Online, Vortex, Conspire, Poetry Cafe, Dead Letters, the storyteller, Poetry Heaven, Athens City Times, Poetik License, 3:00 AM e-zine, Poetry Super Highway, and Carved in Sand. Newton's Baby Press published her first print collection entitled Calamity's Quilt. Janet was one of ten artists to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000. Her web site is http://www.janetbuck.com 

Alan Butcher [POETRY] writes: "Books: I remember Haida (military history), Lancelot Press, and Beer and Ale, McClelland and Stewart (social history; reissued 2000, by Editio-books); also: mag., advtg copy; ed. nat. trade mag.; writing/producing the Chase Almanac (Cdn & international editions) for 25 years; Poetry: The Windsor Review, The Danforth Review." His web site is http://www.writersunion.ca/butcher.htm 

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Gabe Camozzi [FICTION] was born on December 19^th , 1983 to Daniel Camozzi and Kathleen O’Connor Camozzi in Montreal, Québec. He attended Cedar Park School, read a few novels, then went to Loyola High School and read a few more. He currently searches for depth of meaning at his job as a gas station attendant (pump monkey), and enjoys the frivolity of debating, acting, football, eating good food and lying down afterwards. He has previously been published in the First Fruits literary magazine, as well as Loyola’s homebrew publication Venture. He is also single.

[INTERVIEW, POETRY] Melanie Cameron’s first book, Holding the Dark (Muses’ Company, 1999), was shortlisted for the Eileen MacTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Writer. Her second book, wake, will be released by the Muses’ Company in Fall 2003. Melanie is the poetry co-editor of Prairie Fire magazine and is currently completing her third book-length manuscript. 

E.J. Carson [POETRY] received his M.A. in English before joining General Publishing/Stoddart as an Editor in 1980. There he rose to the position of Publisher in the newly formed Stoddart Publishing line. Moving to Random House Canada in 1985 as VP Publishing, he began and developed over the next six years that company's very successful Canadian publishing list. He has edited and published many well known authors such as Carol Shields, Dennis Lee, Eli Mandel, Leon Rooke, David Suzuki, and John Ralston Saul, and launched several successful book series such as New Press Canadian Classics, Spectrum Poetry, and the Canadian Living Cookbooks. In 1991 he joined the newly formed HarperCollins Canada, eventually rising to the position of President. This was followed in 1999 when he joined Pearson Education Canada as President of its newly formed trade division, Pearson PTR Canada. Ed Carson has published one book of poetry, Scenes (Porcupine's Quill).

T. Anders Carson [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS] has published poetry in 16 countries. He lives and writes in Portland, Ontario.

Lauren Carter [POETRY] writes: "My work has been published in unherd, Another Toronto Quarterly, Grain, Event, CV2, Adbusters magazine and other publications. I was short-listed for the 2001 This Magazine Great Canadian Literary Hunt and the 2002 Best New Writer Creative Non-Fiction contest. Recently, I've been completing a collection of poetry with funding from the Ontario Arts Council."

Graham Catt [POETRY] is a South Australian writer of poetry, short stories and children's fiction. His work has been published in numerous magazines and journals around Australia including The Weekend Australian, Quadrant, Famous Reporter, LiNQ, The Canberra Times and Verandah. He has also been widely published on the World Wide Web in such e-zines as Disquieting Muses (US), Limestone Magazine (UK), The 2River View (US), Southern Ocean Review (NZ) and Carve Magazine (US). His recent publications are Shooting Stars (poetry; Ginninderra Press 2001, and Blue: Friendly Street 27 (poetry anthology; co-edited with K*m Mann; Wakefield Press 2003).

Roy Challis [POETRY] of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, is a superannuated teacher of literary and theatre arts, as well as a part-time writer/performance artist. 

Jean-Gérald Charbonneau [FICTION] writes: "Stories of mine have been published in Stop, Liberté and The Nashwaak Review, and I write book reviews for AGNI, the Boston Book Review, Toronto Star, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and other newspapers. Originally from Montreal, I received an MA degree in creative writing from Boston University in 1998 after studying literature and writing at the University of Southern Mississippi."

Jose Chaves [POETRY] writes: "I am currently living in Bogota, Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship putting together an anthology of the Latinamerican prose poem and mini-story. When I am not in Colombia, I live in Portland, Oregon where I teach Spanish and creative writing. I have an MFA from the University of Oregon and have been published in Highbeams, Octavo, Jeopardy, among others."

Sari Colt [FICTION] writes: "I am a thirty-something Toronto based-writer. "Disco Inferno" is my first published effort. My areas of interest include traveling and spirituality. Future plans include writing some non-fiction pieces, a novel, and possibly a short film. I am very excited to be part of The Danforth Review."

Pino Coluccio [POETRY] lives in Toronto, where he was born in 1973 to parents who immigrated from Buonalbergo, a town in the province of Benevento, Italy, in 1958. His work has won a few small prizes and once appeared in Descant magazine.

Tim Conley [FICTION, POETRY, INTERVIEW] lives in Kingston, Ontario. He is the reviews editor at the online journal paperplates. His fiction, poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in many journals, including PRISM international, The Midwest Quarterly, Queen Street Quarterly, and fillingStation. His chapbook The Mirror was published by BookThug. He is the author of Joyces Mistakes.

Geoff Cook [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS] is a poetry editor with The Danforth Review. Geoff has published poetry and essays in many Canadian journals, including Descant, Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio, and The Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature. He teaches English at John Abbott College outside Montreal, where he lives. 

Gregory M. Cook [INTERVIEW], a journalist, former teacher and arts administrator, and one of three poets in his immediate family, has made writers and their survival a professional and personal study, which includes his biography of a close friend of twenty years, One Heart One Way / Alden Nowlan: a writer’s life (Pottersfield Press, 2003). Cook served as the charter chair of the Nova Scotia Writers’ Council, Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, board member of the League of Canadian Poets and Writers’ Development Trust, and first secretary of the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (now Access Copyright).

Reid Cooper [POETRY] is an Ottawa-born lawyer now with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Most of his publications are hyper-dry public policy stuff, although his poetry has appeared in the Carleton Literary Review and Ottawa's (now-defunct) The Skinny.

Danielle Couture [INTERVIEWS] is a poet and staff writer with The Danforth Review.

Corin Cummings [FICTION] is from Vermont and lives in Toronto. "Night Support," the novella from which this piece is excerpted is available online from Wind River Press. Cummings was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 for his story "Biking Distance". His work has also appeared in the Mississippi Review and Tatlin's Tower. More of his work can be found at www.onewordlowercase.com.

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Jennifer Dales [BOOK REVIEWS] is a writer living in Ottawa.

[INTERVIEW] Peter Darbyshire's first book, Please: A Novel, was published in 2002 by Raincoast Books. Darbyshire describes Please as "kind of like a season of 'Friends,'  written by ... Bret Easton Ellis." Please won the 2003 ReLit Award for best novel. 

Joe Davies [FICTION] is a stay at home dad and part-time catering chef. His work has appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio, Filling Station, the Wascana Review and the New Quarterly. When he was a kid it was his face on the box of Pablum.

James Deahl [AL PURDY FEATURE] was a personal friend of such People's Poets as Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, Dorothy Livesay, and Ted Plantos. Deahl is the author of over a dozen books and chapbooks, most recently Blackbirds: war poems; Under The Watchful Eye; and Tasting The Winter Grapes, which won Hamilton's Award of Excellence. http://www.meklerdeahl.com.

[INTERVIEW] John Degen's debut poetry collection, Animal Life in Bucharest was published in May 2000 by Pedlar Press, and a new collection Killing Things was published in 2002. He has recently completed a novel, The Uninvited Guest, about totalitarianism, hockey, and the anecdotal history of backgammon, set in Romania and Canada. More info: http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/degen.htm. 

Shawna Dempsey [INTERVIEW] and Lorri Millan have created a prolific body of performance art, print publications, video and film.  Their most recent text, the Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America (2002, Pedlar Press) is a thought-provoking, uproarious send-up of the field guide genre.

Barry Dempster [POETRY] is the author of seven poetry collections, including Fire and Brimstone (Empyreal Press) and The Salvation of Desire (St. Thomas Press). His New & Selected Poems, The Words Wanting Out, will be published by Nightwood Editions in September 2003.

Anthony De Sa [FICTION] is from Toronto where he lives with his wife and three boys. He is on sabbatical from teaching and is currently working on his first collection of short stories, Fado.

Jason Dewinetz [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Greenboathouse Books.

Richard di Santo [BOOK REVIEW] studied literature and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is working on a collection of essays on literary theory and alchemy.

Andrew Dits [POETRY] is a senior at Trinity School at Greenlawn in South Bend, Indiana, where he started “The Trinity Review”. He began writing under the tutelage of Brother Paul Quenon (who studied poetry with Thomas Merton) at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Andrew has had poems published in six journals and in the collection, "Monkskript", edited by Quenon, which included a piece by Seamus Heaney. Coincidentally, Andrew read “The Picking” for a Fine Arts Fellowship competition at Wabash College in Indiana the same weekend TDR posted the poem. Update ... Andrew writes: "The competition at Wabash College went very well. I took first place."

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Sharon Eberhardt [FICTION] writes: "When I was a child other kids were hoarding their pennies for candy or the latest 'Archie' comic books. I waited with baited breath for "Tales from the Crypt" or my favorite, "The Twilight Zone". I would rush to the store just as the delivery man arrived and buy the latest edition. Rod Serling was a hero to me. Not just because he wrote stories that made me gasp and kept me glued to the TV on Friday night, but because I knew that surprise. . .that certain 'twist' at the end of his story, would delight and terrify me. I read everything he wrote and Ray Bradbury came in as a close second. As a writer, I never took myself seriously until I was recently published as 'featured author' in a magazine. With a wonderful daughter to raise and a nursing career, I rarely had time to indulge in my favorite playtime. Writing! Because of Mr. Serling's wonderful work, I try to fashion my stories after him. At least most of them. I spun this little tale for my daughter, Ravonna, who has always been my inspiration because of her faith in me. I hope you enjoy it as she did. I think there's a Twilight Zone in everything around us...if we look deep enough and let our imaginations soar as Mr. Serling did. Enjoy!"

Keith Ebsary [FICTION, BOOK REVIEWS] has published fiction or poetry in Bywords, Zygote, Blue Moon, Filling Station, Litwit Review, It's Still Winter, others. He works as translator in Québec City and is a great fan of Jesus. 

Crispin Elsted [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Barbarian Press.

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[POETRY] Mark Featherstone's poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Arc, The Mandrake Poetry Review, HMS Beagle, ChiZine, Playing in the Mud? (chapbook anthology from Over the Moon Press) and Let Yourself Go (anthology, Black Moss Press). He lives with his wife and two sons in Montreal West, and is a biologist at McGill University.

Richard Fein [POETRY] has been published in numerous print and web journals. He also have an interest in digital photography. He has three personal websites where he’s posted sample of his work: http://hometown.aol.com/bardofbyte/myhomepage/index.html, http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte, http://expage.com/page/richardspoems.

Mona Fertig [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of (M)othertongue Press. 

Jon Paul Fiorentino [INTERVIEW] is a Transcona/Winnipeg poet living in Montreal where he is an editor for Matrix magazine. Transcona fragments (Cyclops Press, 2002) is his second collection of poetry.

Fresh Meat was the image Matthew Firth [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW, SMALL PRESS FEATURE] chose for the title of his first book of short stories (Rush Hour Revisions, 1997). Packed with gritty realism and pared back prose, that booked helped to strike back at the lyrical pastoralism that seeped into Canadian literature during the past decade. Firth has helped to encourage a new tone for literary writing in Canada by publishing chapbooks, two different literary magazines, and his own growing oeuvre of tell-it-like-it-is short stories. His latest book is Can You Take Me There, Now?, published in September 2001.

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] is the author of Learning Russian (Mansfield Press, 2000), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award. Her second book of poetry, Clinic Day, will be published by Brick Books in 2004. She's working on a novel, Mealtime, and a third collection of poetry, Self Help. She writes freelance reviews and essays. DFB's poems appear most recently in Lost in the Archives (Alphabet City Media) and Short Fuse, a Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, Rattapallax Press.

Laurie Fuhr [BOOK REVIEWS] has poems in the anthologies Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (Broken Jaw 2000) and evergreen: six new poets (Black Moss 2002). She edits Blue Moon (email bluemoonbooks@yahoo.ca).

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Jason Gallagher [POETRY] is the author of a number of poetry chapbooks. He lives and writes in Montreal, Quebec. His web site is www.jasongallagher.com.

[FICTION] Julia Gaunce's novel Rocket Science was published by Pedlar Press. She is working on her next book.

Rosalind Gill [POETRY] teaches at York University in Toronto.

[FICTION, INTERVIEW] In his first collection of short stories, How Did You Sleep? (Porcupine’s Quill, 2000), Ottawa writer Paul Glennon eschews dirty realism and thinly-veiled autobiography for clever conceits and absurdly-extended metaphors. In one story, the president of a corporation is voted out of power by his executive board, which then votes unanimously to change him into a bear.

Douglas Glover [INTERVIEW] was born and raised on a tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario and now lives just outside Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the author of four novels, four short story collections, including 16 Categories of Desire, and a book of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son. His book of stories, A Guide to Animal Behaviour, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best Canadian Short Stories, and The New Oxford Book of Canadian Stories. His criticism has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World and Los Angeles Times. He has a background in philosophy and journalism, and attended the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers Workshop. His 2003 novel, Elle, won the Governor General's Award.

Erin Gouthro [REVIEW, INTERVIEW] is the Poetry Reviews Editor with The Danforth Review. She lives at the edge of the world (or outside the GTA), with her husband, a cat, and a border-collie and is currently attending journalism school at Ryerson University.

Jen Gouthro [FICTION] was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She presently lives and works in Toronto. She writes a weekly newspaper column for the Cape Breton Post entitled "A View from Away" about her experiences as a "small-town girl living in the big city."

Catherine Graham [POETRY, INTERVIEW] is the author of the critically acclaimed chapbook The Watch (reviewed in TDR). She returned to her native Canada in 2000 after living in Northern Ireland for many years where she completed an M.A. in Creative Writing in Poetry. Her poems have been anthologized, broadcasted on BBC Radio Ulster and have appeared in such literary journals as The Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review, The Danforth Review and Books Ireland. Catherine is also included in The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets. A Burlington teacher and workshop leader, Catherine is the creator of Words@work, a communications seminar for businesses. Insomniac Press published Catherine's first full poetry collection, Pupa, fall 2003. Visit Catherine's website: www.catherinegraham.com.

Terence M. Green [INTERVIEW, CANADIAN SF&F FEATURE], a former high-school English teacher, is the author of seven books. Green's tales blur the lines between science fiction and magic realism. Green's web site is www.tmgreen.com.

Darren Greer [BOOK REVIEWS] is a Nova Scotia-born writer living in Toronto. His newest novel, Still Life with June, was released by Cormorant Books in 2003.

Silas Grey [FICTION], nearing the end of a checkered career, has only recently turned his lifelong love affair with words toward writing short stories. He finds inspiration on daily rambles in the hills, forests and moorlands of Wales in the UK. This is his first story to be accepted for publication.

Dan Grossman [POETRY] writes: "I'm a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Niger '92-94) currently living in Indianapolis, Indiana. I've been published in pLopLop (www.pLopLop.com) and Flying Island. I have work forthcoming in Yefief. I also have a chapbook of poems entitled Kilohertz Country out with Geekspeak Unique Press, the publishers of pLopLop."

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Jane Halpern [FICTION] lives with her family on an Appalachian hill farm and occasionally cruises on the small sail boat Morgan Truce. 

Lori Hahnel [BOOK REVIEWS] is a Calgary writer and reviewer whose short fiction has appeared in Cyber Oasis and The Amethyst Review and who is completing her first novel.

Ted Harms [BOOK REVIEWS] is a philosopher who lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

Erina Harris [INTERVIEW] has been published in literary journals across the country, including: ARC, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Other Voices, CV2, Ink Magazine, and Exile. A member of the League of Canadian Poets, she is continuing to refine her metaphysics and experimental aesthetics. She was short-listed in the 2000 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. In 1997 Erina put out a chapbook of her poems the 82 short poems of eliza (Circus Press).

Kenneth J. Harvey [INTERVIEW] has worked as an assistant film editor, graphic designer, magazine editor, short order cook, trade show promoter and amusement park manager. His editorials appear frequently in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Globe & Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Province, Halifax Daily News and Toronto Star. In 2000, he founded The ReLit Awards. The ReLits (short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature...) promote books published by independent Canadian publishers. Harvey has held the post of Writer in Residence at both the University of New Brunswick and Memorial University.

Joelene Heathcote [INTERVIEW] is a graduate from the University of British Columbia with a Masters degree in Fine Arts. Her poetry has been published internationally and is included in the anthologies Breaking the Surface and Mocambo Nights. She has received numerous literary awards for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including: Arc magazine's Poem of the Year, the Ray Burrell Award, This magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt and the Best New Writer Prize.

Tom Henihan [ESSAY] was born in Limerick City, Ireland and immigrated to Canada in 1982. He has lived between southern Alberta and Vancouver Island for the past 17 years. He has read his work at many of the major venues across Canada and been a resident at the Leighton Artists studios at the Banff Centre for the arts in 1995, 1997 and 1998. Henihan's first collection of poetry Between the Streets was published in 1992. His second book A Mortar of Seeds published by Ekstasis Editions was nominated for a Writers Guild of Alberta Award in 1998. In 2002, he published a hand-printed limited edition Almost Forgotten with Frog Hollow Press. His fourth collection A Further Exile was published in fall 2002, also with Ekstasis Editions. Subsequent to the publication of Almost Forgotten, he became poetry editor with Frog Hollow Press.

Eben Hensby [POETRY] writes: "I currently am in grade 12 at Moscrop Secondary School in Burnaby, BC. I have been writing poems for four years now, but only seriously for one. I am an aspiring poet, trying to build up a publishing history and to get a book published. I have previously had some of my work published in IN 2 PRINT magazine, I've won an essay contest on Leonardo da Vinci, I won the Burnaby Writing contest twice (once with a French poem and once with a short story), and I've received several certificates from my school for Excellence In Writing."

Joy Hewitt Mann [FICTION, BOOK REVIEWS] is the author of Clinging to Water, a collection of short fiction (Boheme Press, 2000).

[POETRY] Iain Higgins's poems have appeared in Antigonish Review, Books in Canada, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, The Fiddlehead, Malahat Review, and Prism International. His translations of contemporary Polish poetry have been published in numerous magazines in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the United States, including Descant, London Magazine, Metre, and Chicago Review. His translation of Adam Czerniawski's Selected Poems appeared in 2000.

Harold Hoefle [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS] is the fiction assistant with The Danforth Review. His short story manuscript-in-progress won the runner-up prize for the David Adams Richard Award 2003. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Michael Holmes [INTERVIEW] is not on steroids. His writing doesn’t put you to sleep with its suffocating grip. No, the author of Watermelon Row and 21 Hotels is feeling just fine ... and right now, on these very pages, The Danforth Review is calling him out! Ladies and gentlemen, from the hipster district of Can-Lit, will you please shut the hell up long enough for us to introduce, from Toronto, Canada, the centre of the universe, the reigning and defending, author of Parts Unknown, Canada’s Writer-in-Ring-Resident, Mr. Michael Holmes.

Nalo Hopkinson [INTERVIEW] is a Toronto-based speculative fiction writer. She has published a collection of short stories, some plays, two novels, and an anthology or two. Her short story collection Skin Folk won the Sunburst Award for Canadian fiction of the fantastic, 2003. TDR caught up with her while she was on tour promoting her new book, The Salt Roads (2003, Warner Books). See more about Nalo at: http://www.sff.net/people/nalo/

James Hörner [INTERVIEW] is the editor of the Online Guide to Writing in Canada.

Janina Hornosty [FICTION] lives and works in Nanaimo, BC. She has published one collection of short fiction, Snackers (Oolichan, 1997).

Recent pieces by David Hunter Sutherland [POETRY] have appeared in The American Literary Review, The Hollins Critic, The Northern Michigan Journal, The Reader (Oxford University), The Cortland Review and The Midwest Quarterly. Recent awards include a Pushcart Nomination, and he has a second collection scheduled to be published by Archer Books / Cadmus Editions later in 1999. Finally, he serves as managing editor for a not-for-profit publication called Recursive Angel.

Linda Hutsell-Manning [POETRY] was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1940. Attended school in Manitoba and Ontario, graduated from Toronto Teachers College, taught in a Southern Ontario one-room school. BA from University of Guelph in 1975; first published in 1981. Author of seven children's books/plays, TVOntario scripts, short fiction/ poetry in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies. Gives readings/workshops across Canada and in 1998, in Coburg, Germany and Luxembourg. Lives in Cobourg with husband, James. Has three grown children and three grandchildren. Her web site is www.nexicom.com/~lman 

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Susan Ioannou [ESSAY] is the author of A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem. She delivered her TDR essay as a talk for The Literary Table of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.

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Mark Anthony Jarman [INTERVIEW] is the author of the wickedly entertaining novel Salvage King, Ya!: A Herky Jerky Picaresque and the short story collections Dancing Nightly in the Taverns and New Orleans is Sinking. His latest story collection is 19 Knives (Anansi). In 2002, he published a travel memoir, Ireland's Eye. Jarman is currently teaching creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He is a past graduate of the University of Iowa Writing Seminar.

The New Quarterly's Kim Jernigan [INTERVIEW] spoke with Nathaniel G. Moore about what it means to publish a literary journal in Canada at the turn of the new millennium. 

Sean Johnson [INTERVIEW] is the author of A Day Does Not Go By (Nightwood Editions, 2002), a dark, funny, magically real collection of short stories. The manuscript for A Day Does Not Go By won the 2002 David Adams Richards Award for Fiction and the 2003 ReLit Award for short stories. Originally from Saskatchewan, Johnston studied journalism in Ottawa and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 

Bryan W. Jones [FICTION] writes: "My short fiction has appeared in the Doorknobs and Body Paint, The Duct Tape Press, The Jacksboro Highway Review and placed in the 1997 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest."

Marianne Jones [POETRY] is a teacher/writer whose works have appeared in Wascana Review, Prairie Journal and Room of One's Own.

Phil Jones [FICTION] lives in White Rock, BC where he splits his time between writing and loafing on the beach. He is currently looking for an agent????? Email: philcoj@shaw.ca.

Roger Jones [POETRY] teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Southwest Texas State University. His book Strata appeared in 1993, and he currently has poems appearing of forthcoming in Red River Review, JanusHead, Crab Creek Review, Oklahoma Review, and Flint Hills Review. He is poetry editor of the online journal Ceteris Paribus. 

Shane Jones [FICTION] lives in the USA.

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Katie Kadue [POETRY]: "I am a high school student living in Los Angeles and hope to pursue English and creative writing in college. My work has appeared in several online publications, including Recursive Angel, Fluid Ink Press, Shampoo, and Unlikely Stories."

Andres Kahar [FICTION] is a Toronto-based writer. Over the years, he's divided his time between Canada and Europe. His journalism, spanning themes of crop science and post-Soviet politics and possibly even the paranormal, has been published on both sides of the Atlantic. He's currently working on a novel that brings together all aforementioned themes in breathtaking manner. And despite all attempts at legitimacy, certain friends and foes still simply know him as "The Hooligan."

Robert Kasher [INTERVIEW], Director of Sales and Marketing for The Literary Press Group (LPG). The LPG is an essential element of Canada's literary press publishing industry. 

Ibi Kaslik [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] dreams of one day owning her very own banjo and retiring to the country with Mr. Mom. Skinny is her debut novel (Harper Collins Canada, May 2004).

Joel Katelnikoff [FICTION] is a student at the University of New Brunswick.

Greg Kearney [FICTION] lives in a homely bungalow in East York. He is a humour columnist for Xtra! magazine, and his play, "The Betty Dean Fanzine!" went up at Theatre Passe Muraille in February 2002.

Penn Kemp [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Pendas Productions.

[FICTION] Diana Kiesners's stories, poems and non-fiction have appeared in Descant, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, event, Prism International, and The New Quarterly. She is the co-founder, with Maria Gould, of The Writing Space.

A.C. Koch [FICTION] writes: "I live in Zacatecas, Mexico, where I teach English at a university and edit fiction for Zacatecas: A Review of Contemporary Word (www.zacatecas.org). My work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Exquisite Corpse, Blithe House Quarterly, Carve, River City, In Posse Review, Oasis, and forthcoming in Oysterboy Review. Stories of mine have recently been awarded first place prizes in the Stickman Review Fiction Contest and the PusanWeb Writing Contest. I moonlight as a jazzman."

Ann Knight [FICTION] is the author of Other Avenues, a first novel.

monica s. kuebler [FICTION] is the author of Legacy (and other short fiction).

Joel Kuper [POETRY] lives on the shore of Lake Superior with his growing family. He is a writer/actor who has performed across North America. His latest fascination is trying to blow more bubbles than newborn Neebing. Joel has been published widely, most recently in Nexus, Event, Qwerty, New Orphic Review and Haight Ashbury Literary Journal.

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Robert LeBlanc [BOOK REVIEWS] lives and writes in Brooklin, Ontario. He is also the publisher of The Ultimate Hallucination.

Malca Litovitz [INTERVIEW] is the author of At the Moonbean Café. 

Rebecca Lloyd [FICTION] writes: "I’m an early morning writer, a lover of the dawn chorus and wet moving clouds. I live in a dangerous part of London (UK) because I thrive on the edginess around me; at some level it informs my writing. I was born in New Zealand and lived as a child in Australia. The jobs I’ve done as an adult have included being a science technologist, a fire-eater in a traditional circus, a sign writer, a development worker, a gardener, and between 1993 and 1995 I worked in a small dilapidated hospital laboratory in the mountains of Tanzania. My love of short story writing began there. I have two daughters and am about to become a grandmother."

Duane Locke [POETRY] writes: "Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, publisher of over 2,000 poems in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, author of 14 books of poems, his latest being WATCHING WISTERIA (to order see www.vidapublishing.com or call Small Press Distribution-1-800-869-7553), cyber-poet, since Sept 1, 1999 has had 402 acceptances by online zines, photographer, listed in PSA's WHO'S WHO as one of the top twenty nature photographers, painter, currently having a one-man show of over 30 painting at the Pyramid gallery in Tampa, winner for poetry of the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Agnoff, and Walt Whitman awards, now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives estranged and as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language, some form of postmodern English, of his surroundings. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police who put up bright orange and yellow posters on each post to advertise the location in a shopping mall for drugs. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy."

Jennifer LoveGrove [INTERVIEW] is a writer currently living in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Canada. Her first book, The Dagger Between Her Teeth, was published by ECW Press in 2002. Her writing has been published in a variety of journals and magazines, and she is currently an editor at Hive Magazine, where she also has a literary column called "Under Cover". She edits and publishes a handmade literary zine called dig, where each of the hundreds of covers are unique works of art. Her wayward armadillo press publishes and produces chapbooks and various literary ephemera and events, and her non-book-related creative undertakings fall under Soap Scum Projects. All this and more can be found at www.jenniferlovegrove.com and www.soapscumprojects.com. 

[FICTION] John Lowry’s work has appeared in the Chiron Review, the North American Review, and Descant. He lives in New York.

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John MacKenzie [INTERVIEW] was born on PEI in 1966. At 19, he began to write poetry and travel across Canada. He now lives in Charlottetown. His much-praised first book, Sledgehammer and Other Poems (Polestar), was shortlisted for the 2000 Atlantic Poetry Prize and for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award. His second collection, Shaken by Physics (Polestar), was published in 2002.

Jim Mackey [POETRY] is from Newfoundland and lives in New Brunswick where he practices the dark trade of advertising. He remains an old ex-patriot human being.

Teri Marcotte [BOOK REVIEWS] is a writer whose recreational outlets include tramping through pudding clogged mazes shrouded in the fog. Her works can be viewed online at http://writers-shrine.ws/ezine/ezvlil.html.

Mike Martin [BOOK REVIEWS] is a poet and writer who is currently writing a musical play called Life is a Highway.

Ashok Mathur [INTERVIEW] was born in Bhopal, India, and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1962. At first they settled in Nova Scotia but by 1968 they were in Calgary, where he began working on a variety of small press and art projects. Mathur completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Calgary, focusing on anti-racism inside and outside the academy. His first book, Loveruage, was published in 1993 by Wolsak and Wynn. His novel Once Upon an Elephant was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 1998. His second novel, The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar arrived from Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2001. He currently teaches at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver. His web site is http://www.amathur.ca. 

Deirdre Maultsaid [FICTION] writes: "I am a Canadian writer living in Spain with my family, where I am revising my novel, "The Cold Ashes of Her Shelter" for which I am seeking a book publisher. I have been published in print in Other Voices and Zygote (Canada), a Rowan Books anthology "Study in Grey" (Canada).

Chandra Mayor [INTERVIEW] is a Manitoba writer. She was exposed in the anthology Exposed edited by Catherine Hunter. Chandra is the author of August Witch (Cyclops Press, 2002), which was short-listed for a Manitoba Book award and won for best first book (Eileen McTavish Sykes Award). Her debut novel Cherry (Conundrum, 2004) deals with prairie skinheads, that is, the skinhead scene of Winnipeg set in the 1990’s. 

Esther Mazakian [POETRY] writes: "I'm working on a book of poems, tentatively entitled, All the Lifters. I've been published in The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, Tickleace, The Antigonish Review, ink, Queen Street Quarterly, The Pottersfield Portfolio, and several others."

Cam McAlpine [POETRY] is a writer and editor living in Prince George, BC. Previous publications include Canadian Literature, West Coast Line, The Capilano Review, and It’s Still Winter.

Kabeera McCorkle [FICTION] lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Derek McCormack [INTERVIEW] is a Toronto writer.

[FICTION] Nichole McGill's first collection of short stories, 13 Cautionary Tales, was published to acclaim by Toronto's Gutter Press in 2000. She adapted one these stories into a short film, The Waiting Room, which was an official selection into the 2002 Berlin Film Festival. McGill's poetry, prose and screenplays have appeared in anthologies and magazines across North America and she runs the raucous durtygurls interdisciplinary literary reading series in Ottawa. She prefers her chickens without goiters. http://www.nicholemcgill.com.

Carmelita McGrath [INTERVIEW] has authored two volumes of poetry: Poems on Land and on Water and To The New World, which won the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 1998. She’s also written two collections of short fiction: Walking to Shenak and Stranger Things Have Happened (1999, Killick Press), which won the Writers’ Alliance/Bennington Gate Newfoundland Book Award (2000), and was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (2000). 

Donald McGrath [REVIEW] is a Montreal-based translator and writer. His first book of poems, At First Light, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 1995.

rob mclennan [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] is a poet, editor, and publisher. He edits STANZAS magazine and edited Written in the Skin (Insomniac). He is the publisher of above/ground press. He coordinates the Ottawa Small Press Fair. His web site is www.track0.com/rob_mclennan.

Tessa McWatt [INTERVIEW] is the author of Out of My Skin and Dragons Cry, published in 1998 and 2001 by The Riverbank Press. Tessa McWatt was born in Guyana and grew up and was educated in Toronto. She later lived, taught and wrote in Montreal for several years, then moved to London, England. She has recently returned to Toronto. Besides the novels discussed in this interview, McWatt has published various short stories and poems in Canadian and British journals, and has been commissioned by the Ontario and Canadian arts councils to write libretti for the well-known Canadian composer, Bruce Pennycook. Dragons Cry was short-listed for both the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General’s Awards of Canada in 2001.

George Messo [POETRY] was born in 1969. His books include From The Pine Observatory (Halfacrown Books, 2000), Framing Reference (Ed. Valerie Kennedy, 2001) and The Complete Poems of Jean Genet (translated with Jeremy Reed). He has received a Council of Europe Translation Award for his versions of Rilke and is Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry for June/July 2002 at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland. He is the editor of the international journal Near East Review and teaches at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Anthony Metivier [BOOK REVIEWS] is the Fiction Reviews Editor with The Danforth Review.

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan [INTERVIEW] have created a prolific body of performance art, print publications, video and film.  Their most recent text, the Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America (2002, Pedlar Press) is a thought-provoking, uproarious send-up of the field guide genre.

Jason Millar [BOOK REVIEWS] lived in Toronto when he wrote this review.

Yusouf Mohammad [FICTION] teaches at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the poetry editor of Arabia Review, and his work has appeared in The North American Review and other journals.

Lad Moore [FICTION] writes: "The author is a former corporate vice-president who left the boardroom in 1998 and returned to his roots in 'Deep East Texas'. He lives on a small farm near mysterious Caddo Lake and the historic steamboat town of Jefferson, the fountainhead for much of his writing. In the solitude of the piney trails amidst the muscadines, the spines of his stories emerge--stories that are said to "boil with raging imagery." The author enjoys more than ninety publishing credits, and many new stories await his first anthology "Firefly Rides," coming in 2001. His winning entry "The Firmament of the Third Day" has been published in the Univ. of Washington's Carve Magazine Contest Anthology. In addition, Mr. Moore is a 2000 winner of both The Wordhammer Award and the Silver Quill."

[BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS] Nathaniel G. Moore’s fiction has been published in various places, including Another Toronto Quarterly. More of his work can be found at Notho Entertainment <www.notho.net>

George Murray [FICTION, INTERVIEW] is the author of three books of poems: Carousel (Exile, 2000) and The Cottage Builder’s Letter (McClelland & Stewart, 2001). The Hunter was published by M&S in 2003.

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Richard Nash [INTERVIEW], publisher of Soft Skull Press.

Dimitri Nasrallah [FICTION, BOOK REVIEWS] writes: "I am a young writer from the Toronto area. I came across your webpage and I couldn't help but notice that what you're looking for and what I write have quite a few things in common. I, too, share your conviction for intelligent writing. At this point, I have yet to publish any fiction but I have published articles (including book reviews) at the university press level."

Shane Neilson [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS] is a lean, mean, poetry machine from New Brunswick. He is a lover of small children and animals (but not that kind of love.) He has published in Canada, America, England and Ireland. He has won the 1999 Canadian Poetry Association's contest for best poem, was shortlisted for the THIS magazine's 2000 Literary Hunt for poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2000 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award. He is a really great guy. A swell guy. Son of a preacher-man. Member of the literati. He is vrai poetique. He is only slightly annoying. 

Hal Niedzviecki [INTERVIEW] is the author of Smell It (short stories), Lurvy (a novel retelling of the Charlotte's Web story), and We Want Some Too (a non-fiction book on the effects of mass media on contemporary constructions of self). His latest novel is Ditch.

Merle Nudelman [INTERVIEW] is the author of Borrowed Light.

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Tom O'Brien [FICTION] is a classless chemistry teacher living quietly in his hometown, Toronto, where he is busy writing his fourth novel under the watchful eye of Humber College. Several frustrated fiction critics in the universe wish he would stop avoiding what he was meant for, trapping wild blonde mink in Yorkville or growing Siberian Yams. His writing career has suddenly blossomed in the inaugural issue of The Danforth Review, with publication of "The Live One," a remnant of a true experience that happened to Tom in the summer of 1959. Tom's waiting of forty years for manhood status is not really unusual as he just learned to read and write.

David O'Meara [POETRY] currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario where he is working on a new collection of poems. His first book is called Storm still. 

Michael O'Neil [FICTION] writes: "In terms of bio, I have published several short stories (although not for a considerable period of time) in RAW FICTION and NEW MARITIMES. I have also written a treatment for a film based upon the poetry of the late Al Purdy."

Natalie Onuska [FICTION] is from Toronto, Ontario. She is in the midst of completing her first collection of short stories, Slow Replay. She currently resides in Oaxaca, Mexico, her temporary home.

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Brian Panhuyzen [FICTION] is a writer of fiction and avant garde poetry. His book The Death of the Moon was published in 1999 by Cormorant Books.  He also designs books and flies airplanes.

Lillie Papps [FICTION] is a Toronto-based freelance writer.

Ben Passikoff [POETRY] is a retired engineer whose poems have appeared in The Quarterly Review of Literature, the Atlanta, Harvard, Kennesaw, Sarah Lawrence and Texas Reviews, Literal Latte, Orbis, Pedestal Magazine and a truckload of other journals. Ben's pursuits are poetry and survival.

Anne Pepper [POETRY] writes: "I'm an MA graduate in Creative Writing, published in 2River Press, The Melic Review, and Eclectica."

Gordon Phinn [ESSAY] published his first book of poetry in 1975 and since then has been pursuing anonymity with a vengeance. An independent scholar focused mainly in literature and metaphysics, he finds himself in that awkward spot: too young to be a grand old man and too old to be a young turk. But middle age does have its privileges, and he suggests you try him on for size. An extensive backlist of chapbooks is available at mooninjoon@yahoo.com.

Sam Pitch [FICTION] is out there somewhere.

Emily Pohl-Weary [INTERVIEW] wrote the "autobiography" of her grandmother, Canadian sci-fi legend Judith Merril. Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril is published by Between the Lines (2002). Pohl-Weary is also the founder of Kiss Machine and co-editor of Broken Pencil. A Toronto-based freelance writer, she is completing her first novel, Sugar's Empty, a coming of age tale about a young woman named Sugar who loves the actor Parker Posey. 

Lisa Polisar [FICTION] is a mystery writer from New Mexico. Her debut thriller, Blackwater Tango, was published in 2002 (Hilliard and Harris), and her second mystery, Knee Deep, was published in December of 2003 (Port Town Publishing). Lisa is a Fiction Editor for the 12 Gauge Review and writes book and art reviews for five magazines. Read more about her work at www.lisapolisar.com. 

Marc Ponomareff [BOOK REVIEWS] is a Toronto writer.

K.I. Press [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] was once the Reviews Editor for The Danforth Review. Now she is a poet. Her collection Pale Red Footprints was published by Pedlar Press in 2001.

Richard L. Provencher [FICTION], was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. A love of the outdoors is prominent in his writing. Richard, a member of WFNS, writes poetry, picture books, stories and novels. He has work in Cold Glass, Preservation Foundation and In Remembrance. Richard and his wife, Esther live in Truro, NS.

Gilbert Wesley Purdy [POETRY, BOOK REVIEWS] writes poetry, prose and translations. His work has appeared (and/or is scheduled to appear) in many paper and electronic journals, throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain, including: Poetry International; Grand Street; SLANT; The Neovictorian/Cochlea; Elimae; and The Danforth Review.

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Michelle Reale [BOOK REVIEWS] works in the library in Elkins Park, PA.

Patra Reiser [BOOK REVIEWS] lives in Montreal.

Dan Reve [BOOK REVIEWS] was once a lumberjack, but he ain't no more. He's still okay.

Anthony Robinson [POETRY] writes: "I am a graduate student in English Literature at the University of Oregon, where I also teach freshman composition and am an associate editor on the staff of the Northwest Review. My work has been widely published on the web and in small print journals, most recently Samsara Quarterly, Gumball Poetry, Caffeine Destiny, Able Muse, and EM Literary."

matt robinson [POETRY], winner of the 1999 Petra Kenney Memorial International Poetry Prize, has a Creative Writing MA from UNB and is currently a PhD candidate in Canadian Literature there. He took 3rd Prize in THIS Magazine’s 2000 Great Canadian Literary Hunt. His first book-length collection of poetry, a ruckus of awkward stacking, was published in September 2000 by Insomniac Press. He has published extensively in Canadian, American, British, and Australian journals. His work has been featured on CBC Radio and he is on the editorial board of The Fiddlehead.

Leon Rooke [INTERVIEW] is the author of six novels including The Fall of Gravity, which was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of 2000's top books. His 1981 novel Shakespeare's Dog won the Governor-General's Award and his novel A Good Baby was recently made into a feature film. A native of North Carolina who has lived in Canada many years, Rooke is a frequent reviewer for U.S. newspapers including The New York Times. Leon Rooke makes his home in Winnipeg and Mexico with his wife Constance. Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke was published in 2001 by Thomas Allen Publishers.

Patrick Roscoe [FICTION] is a Vancouver sex worker whose seven internationally acclaimed books of fiction have been translated into nine languages.

Stuart Ross [INTERVIEW] is a Toronto poet, fiction writer, editor, and creative-writing instructor. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970’s. He is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair. His work has graced the pages of Harper’s, This Magazine, Geist, Rampike, and Bomb Threat Checklist, to name a few. His poetry book Farmer Gloomy’s New Hybrid (1999) was shortlisted for the 2000 Trillium Book Award. In 2003, ECW published Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected. Ross’s website is www.hunkamooga.com.

Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg [SMALL PRESS FEATURE, BOOK REVIEW] is proprietor of Thirteenth Tiger Press. 

Jay Ruzesky [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Outlaw Editions.

Andrea Ryder [INTERVIEW] is the editor-in-chief of Slingshot, a literary and arts magazine, and a Canadian photographer living in New York City. Ryder has milked cows on a Kibbutz in the Upper Galilea, Israel, taught Shakespearean literature to high school children in Rae Bareli, India, worked as an archaeologist in Belize through Trent University uncovering Mayan ceremonial stairs.

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Mark Sampson [BOOK REVIEWS] was born and raised on Prince Edward Island and lived in Halifax for seven years, but is currently completing a Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Richard Sanger [INTERVIEW, POEMS] is a poet and playwright who lives in Toronto. Richard is the author of Shadow Cabinet, a book of poems published by Vehicule Press in 1996, and several plays, including the Governor General Award nominated, Not Spain. His plays continue to be performed and his poetry has appeared widely, not only in Canada, but in the United States and Great Britain in such journals as the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and Poetry Review. Richard has taught at the University of Toronto, and held positions as Writer in Residence with the University of New Brunswick and the University of Calgary.

Tom Schmidt [POETRY] writes: "My poetry chapbook, Passionate Intensity, was published by Pachyderm Press in 1996. A full sized book of my poetry called The Best Lack All was released in 1996 by Broken Jaw Press. My poetry and short stories have appeared in Blood and Aphorisms, Prairie Fire, The Wascana Review, sub-TERRAIN Magazine, Zygote Magazine, Burning Ambitions (anthology), Beyond Bad Times (anthology), Black Cat 115, Fan Magazine, Diverge Magazine, Stanzas, Front and Centre, Jesse James Chapbook Press, Kick it Over, the Unicorn Reader, like lemmings, Undertow, Treeline E-Zine, the Oyster Boy Review, Afterthoughts Magazine, Tickled By Thunder, Libel, Kairos 11, the Prairie Journal, imelod, Under a Prairie Sky (anthology), Our Fathers (anthology), and Blue Moon Magazine. I have had book reviews and articles published in Prairie Fire, Zygote Magazine, the Renovator, Ambassador Magazine, and the Winnipeg Free Press. I also recently did an Out Front episode for CBC national radio which featured some of my poetry. I am Manitoba Rep. for the League of Canadian Poets and I have served on the executive of the Manitoba Writers' Guild. I have given many readings at places such as Heaven Art and Book Cafe, Chapters, and McNally Robinson.  In 1998 I was the judge of the adult category of the New Brunswick Writers' Guild poetry contest."

Mark Schrutt [FICTION] was born in Buffalo, New York, and has been living in Toronto since the late 1980s. His credits include admission to the Dorset Writing Group, seven published stories including COMMITTED TO ART, SWEET-N-LOW SWINDLER, TROPHIES, PARKING STORIES, and THE EXCHANGE STREET METER. He is very involved in the Toronto writing community and the Canadian Authors Association.

Dianne Scott [FICTION] writes: "I am a Toronto writer and teacher living along side Lake Ontario. My poetry has been published in The Prairie Journal, Intangible, Pan del Muerto and Other Voices. My fiction has been featured in Tupperware Sandpiper. I was also a finalist in the Writers’ Union of Canada Postcard Fiction Contest 2000."

[BOOK REVIEWS] Kathy Shaidle's first collection, Lobotomy Magnificat (Oberon) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Her web site is www.kathyshaidle.com. 

We don't know anything about Jonathan J. Sherer [BOOK REVIEW].

[POETRY] Kenneth Sherman's long poem Black River, is forthcoming from Porcupine's Quill. His work has recently appeared in ARC, Grain, AGNI, Partisan Review, and Tikkun. TDR reviewed his book The Well.

Sandy Shreve [INTERVIEW] has published three poetry collections: The Speed of the Wheel is Up to the Potter (Quarry, 1990), Bewildered Rituals (Polestar, 1992) and Belonging (Sono Nis, 1997,) short listed for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award). She edited the anthology Working For A Living (published in 1988 as a double issue of Room of One's Own and used as a text in several BC and Alberta Women's Studies courses for a number of years). Shreve founded Poetry in Transit in BC and for three years co-ordinated the project. In addition to sitting on four selection committees for Poetry in Transit, she has been a juror for the BC Book Prizes (poetry) and the Burnaby Writers' Contest (poetry). She has won the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry and received a National Magazine Awards honourable mention (for poetry).

[POETRY, INTERVIEW] Anne Simpson's first book of poetry, Light Falls Through You, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2000. Her novel, Canterbury Beach, was published by Penguin in 2001.

J. Mark Smith [POETRY] writes: "My poems and essays have been published recently in The Santa Monica Review, Gulf Coast, and Fiddlehead. I live in Toronto, after eight years in California."

Carrie Snyder [INTERVIEW, POETRY] was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Ohio, Nicaragua, and Ayr, Ontario. Her first book, Hair Hat, is published by Penguin Canada. She now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her husband and two children and is working on a novel. A book of poems titled Looking Back, I Want It All will be published in 2004 by the independent Kitchener-based press, Widows and Orphans.  See Snyder's website for more details.

David Solway [INTERVIEW, POEMS] is the author of many books of poetry including the award-winning Modern Marriage; Bedrock; Chess Pieces; Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, The Lover’s Progress: Poems after William Hogarth and Franklin’s Passage. Among his prose publications, Education Lost won the QSPELL Prize for Nonfiction and Random Walks was a finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. A collection of literary/critical essays, Director’s Cut, will be released in the Fall of this year. Solway’s work has appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Canadian Literature, Descant, Parnassus, Partisan Review, Saturday Night and The Sewanee Review. He was appointed writer-in-residence at Concordia University for 1999-2000 and is currently a contributing editor with Canadian Notes & Queries and an associate editor with Books in Canada.

Ken Sparling [FICTION, BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEW] is a Toronto writer who works by day at the Toronto Reference Library. His latest novel is [untitled] (Pedlar Press, 2003). His first novel, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), was edited by the genius/nutbar Gordon Lish.

Christine Speakman [BOOK REVIEWS] is a freelance book reviewer, and lives in Hamilton.

Carmine Starnino [INTERVIEW] is a Montreal poet, critic, and editor. Forthcoming in 2004 are his book of criticism on Canadian poetry, A Lover's Quarrel, from Porcupine's Quill Press, and, from Gaspereau Press, his third book of poems, With English Subtitles. Carmine's first book, The New World (Vehicule Press, 1997), was nominated for the 1997 QSPELL A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the 1998 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book, and was selected by Quill & Quire as one of the best Canadian books of 1997. His second book, Credo (McGill-University Press, 2000), won the 2001 Canadian Authors Association Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in a large number of national and international publications. Since 2001 Carmine is also the poetry editor for Vehicule Press's Signal Editions.

[INTERVIEW, FICTION] Fiction writer and playwright J.J. Steinfeld lives in Charlottetown, PEI. His work has received many awards, including the 1990 Creative Writing Award from the Toronto Jewish Congress Book Committee and first-prize ten times in TheatrePEI's annual playwriting competition. In 2003 he received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island. His tenth book is Would You Hide Me?

[BOOK REVIEWS] Richard Stevenson's latest book, Hot Flashes, was published by Ekstasis Editions. He lives in Lethbridge, AB.

Deanna Symoski [FICTION] writes: "I am a 21 year old college student at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Currently, I am in my 6th semester as a Communications major. I have worked as both staff writer and features editor of The Behrend Beacon, the campus's weekly newspaper. I hope to continue my career in writing, particularly in fiction."

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Craig Taylor [FICTION] is a writer in London. He is a former editor at Saturday Night magazine and openletters.net. He is currently the editor of anonymousjuice.com.

Micheal Teal [BOOK REVIEWS] is a poet/spoken word artist -The Writing on The Wall - Calling all Writers - Night of the Living Dead Poets - Currently writing horoscopes and true ghost stories for www.701.com - Currently working on documentary about Haunted Theatres for a Toronto Production Company - website- www.bardic.on.ca/ancient.

Rob Thomas [BOOK REVIEWS] is a book reviewer and journalist. He has no narrative art expertise. His knowledge of the topic has been gleaned entirely from Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics and a ring and lantern generously provided by the Galactic Guardians of Oa.

Tony Thomas [FICTION] has an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Florida International University. He lives and writes in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Craig Thompson [BOOK REVIEWS] is a Toronto-based writer and editor.

Robert Pierre Tomas [POETRY] is a Toronto broadcaster and writer. He writes poetry and fiction in English, his third (or fourth) language. Currently he is writing his second novel, The Swimming Grass, under the tutorship of D.M. Thomas through the Humber School of Writers program.

Monique Tschofen [POETRY] teaches English and Communications and Cultural Studies at Ryerson University. Her poetry has recently been published in CV2, The Fiddlehead, the Whitewall Review, and the New Delta Review. She lives in Toronto.

[POETRY] Diane Tucker's first book of poems, God on His Haunches, was published in 1996 by Nightwood Editions. It was shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

[FICTION] Michael Twist's first collection of poetry "Here & Now" was published in 1998 by Jellyfish Communications. He has published in Maelstrom, The Peak Newspaper, and Two Chairs Magazine. In 2001, he published Highs and Lows: A Personal Approach to Living with Diabetes, which takes a much-needed unconventional approach to living with diabetes. He lives in British Columbia.

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Richard Van Camp [TOP 10 FIRST NATIONS WORKS FEATURE] was born in NWT and is a member of the Dogrib Nation. His poems and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies including Gatherings (III, IV and V), Whetstone, Descant, A Shade of Spring, Blue Dawn; Red Earth and Steal My Rage. He is a past winner of the prestigious Canadian Author's Association Air Canada Award. His first novel, The Lesser Blessed, was published in 1996. In 2000, it was translated into German. His children's books: A Man Called Raven and What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? were published by 1997 and 1998. His first radio drama, "Mermaids" was commissioned and aired by CBC Radio for their 1998 Festival of Fiction. His short story collection Angel Wing Splash Pattern was published in 2002.

Gerard Varni [FICTION, POETRY] writes: "My work has appeared in printed journals, including pleiades and the baltimore review, as well as online at blue moon, crossconnect, web del sol, etc." 

Peter Vaughan [FICTION] is a writer living in Nova Scotia. He has been a musician, journalist, philosopher, primary care physician, UN Special Ops flight surgeon, lobbyist, and dot-com senior executive. A master of disguise, Peter has published extensively including travel features in the Toronto Globe and Mail, international news for the Lancet, and the British Medical Journal,  editorials in the Medical Post, humour in Stitches the Journal of Medical Humour, and he wrote and produced the television pilot MD TV for Global Television. Currently, Peter is working on his second novel.

Paul Vermeersch [INTERVIEW] is a Toronto-based poet and editor. He is the author of the The Fat Kid (ECW, 2002). His poems have appeared in journals and magazines in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. His first collection of poems Burn (ECW Press, 2000) was a finalist for the 2001 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best English language poetic debut in Canada. In 1998 he founded the I.V. Lounge Reading Series. His anthology the I.V. Lounge Reader (Insomniac Press) was published in 2001. He is the poetry editor for Insomniac Press. 

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[INTERVIEW] Anne F. Walker's books of poetry include The Exit Show, Into the Peculiar Dark, Pregnant Poems, and Six Months Rent. She founded Redwood Coast Press, and edited the anthology of poetry and poetic prose bite to eat place. Her poetry has been granted awards from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and the bpNichol Memorial Fund, and twice been awarded the Eisner Prize for Poetry. Her website is at http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/walker.htm. 

Patrick Warner [POETRY] lives in St. John's and has published poetry in a variety of periodicals and newspapers: TickleAce, The Fiddlehead, Matrix, Signal, The Sunday Telegram (St. John's), Poetry Ireland Review and Metre (Ireland). His first collection, All Manner of Misunderstanding, was published by Killick Press in the spring of 2001.

Barry Webster [FICTION] has published fiction and non-fiction in a wide variety of publications including The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Event, Fiddlehead, Matrix, and Prairie Fire. His work has been shortlisted for the National Magazine Award and the CBC Quebec prize. He has just completed his first novel.

For seven years Zachariah Wells [POETRY,  REVIEWS] toiled as an airline cargo hand in the territory of Nunavut. A chapbook of his poems will be published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks (Charlottetown) in the spring of 2004, and his full-length collection of Arctic poems, Unsettled, is due out with Insomniac Press in the fall of that year. He now lives in Halifax and on the world wide web at www.zachariahwells.com.

Joanna M. Weston [BOOK REVIEWS]: born in England; married to an accountant, Robert; 3 sons, one daughter-in-law, 3 grandchildren, two cats; has a green thumb and an enlarging garden. M.A. from the University of British Columbia; appears in several anthologies; published in Canada, U.S.A., U.K. etc. for the past 15 years in magazines such as CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES, CHIRON REVIEW, DANDELION, ENDLESS MOUNTAIN REVIEW, SPIN, WRITER’S OWN MAGAZINE, GREEN’S MAGAZINE, etc.; reviews poetry. chapbooks: ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES, 1987; CUERNAVACA DIARY, 1990; SEASONS, 1993; ALL SEASONS, 1996 (2nd edition 1997). More info: http://www.islandnet.com/~weston/

Darryl Whetter [FICTION] is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.

Nathan Whitlock [FICTION EDITOR, INTERVIEWS, BOOK REVIEWS] was the guest fiction editor for the January 2001 issue of TDR. Whitlock’s short fiction won the 2000 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and was shortlisted in THIS Magazine’s 2000 Great Canadian Literary Hunt. He regularly reviews fiction for Quill & Quire and was Managing Editor for Descant. He lives in Toronto. He has his driver’s license, and can borrow steel-toe boots, if need be.

Carleton Wilson [SMALL PRESS FEATURE] is proprietor of Junction Books.

[POETRY, INTERVIEW] Elana Wolff's poems have appeared (or will appear) in acta victoriana, dig, imelod, Intangible, paperplates, Outreach Connection, Firm Noncommital, Jones Av. Quarterly, The Writing Space Journal, White Wall Review, Descant, Defiance, Broken Pencil, Kairos 11, Tower Poetry, Radiance, lichen, Diviners, The Harpweaver and The Backwater Review.

Cyril Wong [POETRY] is the author of four books of poetry in Singapore. Aside from being published in various international journals in the USA, UK, Australia and Malaysia, his poems have been adapted to music, film and the stage. He was a featured poet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2003.

Mike Woods [REVIEW]: "Four years of higher education have left Mike Woods with an awkward combination of genuine literary cynicism and genuine literary snobbery. Please rant away at him at michaelwoods@hotmail.com."

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David Zakss [FICTION] writes: "David took film at U of T because he didn't want to do a real subject. He enjoys investigating the designs of narrative in many media, starting with the millennial ritual of written language. David was once a denizen of the Danforth, for a number of vital years in his puny human lifespan."

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