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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.
Teresa
Kennedy [FICTION] is the author (or co-author) of more than
30 published books of fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Tucson
Arizona with her husband and daughter.
[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.
[FICTION] Gail
Konop Baker’s work is published or forthcoming in TALKING
RIVER REVIEW, THE POTOMAC, MOTA, XANADU, WOMANSONG, PUDDING MAGAZINE,
GLASS REVIEW, and an anthology funded by the Ohio Arts Council. She
recently completed her first novel. She has worked as an advertising
executive, a stand-up comic, a waitress, a high school teacher, and a
journalist. She is a mother, a competitive distance runner, and an
occasional yoga instructor. Currently, she lives with her husband and
three children in Madison, Wisconsin, and on Madeline Island.
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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John
Lavery [INTERVIEW] lives in Gatineau, Quebec, with his wife and
children. Very
Good Butter (ECW, 2000) was a Hugh MacLennan prize finalist. His
collection You,
Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off (ECW, 2004) deals with crimes that
remain unsolved.
Robert
LeBlanc [BOOK REVIEWS] lives and writes in Brooklin, Ontario. He
is also the publisher of The
Ultimate Hallucination.
Matt
Lennox [FICTION]: 'Men Of Salt, Men Of Earth' was inspired by
travel and work misadventures in rural Queensland, Australia, in the
summer of 2000.
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.
Jason
Markowsky [FICTION] is an emerging writer who’s had short
stories published in Fait Accomplit, The Dalhousie
Review, lichen, Other Voices, and
Fiddlehead. He also one of the winners of the 2002/2003 CBC
Alberta Anthology writing contest. A native of Edmonton, he's lived most
of the last five years in Vienna, where he teaches English and works as
an actor for a local English-speaking theatre.
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.
Suzette
Mayr [INTERVIEW], is an Calgary-based writer and the author of Moon
Honey (finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Best Novel
and finalist for the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book) and The
Widows (a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book,
Canadian-Caribbean region). Mayr’s book is the brash, surreal and
sharply witty satire Venous Hum.
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 [FICTION, REVIEW] is a Montreal-based writer and
translator who has published a book of poems (At First Light,
Wolsak and Wynn, 1995) in addition to articles and translations on art. McGrath
has completed a second poetry manuscript (which is currently trying
to find a home) and is working on a short-story collection.
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. Dragons Cry was short-listed for both
the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General’s Awards of
Canada in 2001.
Maya
Merrick [INTERVIEW] is author of Sextant (Conundrum
Press, 2005), the debut novel narrated by the perpetually displaced
Cassy Peerson, a young woman who lives in a car on a beach in an unnamed
California town and works as a mermaid at a strip club. It is only
underwater that she feels at peace.
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].
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>
Kathleen
Mullin [FICTION] is freelance writer living in Montreal. She is
currently working on a collection of short stories, as well as a
non-fiction book based on bike trips through Asia, Africa, and South
America.
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.
Faruk
Myrtaj [FICTION] was
born in Albania, where he published a number of books. In
November 2003 he immigrated to Canada with his family. Since 2004 he has
been a member of The Writers Union of Canada.
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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."
[Contributor information removed for one author. 2024-02-01]
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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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[FICTION] Philip
Quinn's work has appeared in a diverse range of publications
including Inkstone, Rampike, sub-Terrain, Shard,
blood+aphorisms, Front & Centre, Quarry, Canadian
Fiction magazine, Cabaret Vert, Kiss Machine, Lichen,
and Broken Pencil. On-line appearances include: Laura
Hird's Showcase, Eli Mae, and The
Shore Magazine. Publications are Dis Location: Stories After the
Flood and The Double, a novel.
He lives in Toronto.
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Michelle
Reale [BOOK REVIEWS] works in the library in Elkins Park, PA.
Sarah
Reid [FICTION]: Having just completed her Honours Communications
degree at the University of Ottawa, Sarah has been doing freelance film
work. She spent her final semester in Sydney Australia where she partook
in poetry readings at the Brett Whitley Gallery. A veteran of the Ottawa
Valley, Sarah has moved to Toronto to pursue a career in both her
passions: film and writing.
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.
Leo
Brent Robillard [INTERVIEW]
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."
Chris
Robinson [INTERVIEW] is an author, freelance writer and the
Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival. He
writes the “gonzo” column “The Animation Pimp” for Animation
World Magazine.
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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