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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.

Bernard Kelly [FICTION] is the editor of paperplates, an online literary magazine [www.paperplates.org]. His stories have appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio, Antigonish Review, and Another Toronto Quarterly.

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.

Her childhood in Regina rumbling inside her, Ellyn Peirson [FICTION] moved to Ontario at eighteen. She currently manages a private counselling practice and designs websites. She has completed a novel, begun a collection of short stories and is half-way through her second novel.  Her poetry has been her constant companion; Italy is her newest seduction. See also: www.ellynpeirson.com 

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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