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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 mature graduate of York University, Carol majored in English and Creative Writing.

[INTERVIEW] Howard Akler’s novel The City Man (Coach House Books, 2005) is a punchy mix of pulp fiction, crime noir and prototypical Canadian literary fiction. It’s set in Toronto in 1934, with the city mired in the Great Depression.

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. 

Jason Anderson [INTERVIEW] is the author of Showbiz (ECW Press, 2005). Showbiz creates an alternate universe where a young journalist named Nathan (a Canuck who lives in New York, even though his visa has run out) finds an old record by someone named Jimmy Wynn in a used record store. He takes it home and listens to it and discovers he was an impersonator of President Cannon, a much-beloved president who was assassinated in New Orleans in 1963.

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 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. Her website. 

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John Baglow [REVIEWS] was born in England and emigrated to Canada at the age of two without too many scars. He is the author of the poetry collections, Emergency Measures (Sono Nis, 1976) and Journey Under Glass (Penumbra, 2004), as well as a critical study of the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (McGill-Queen's, 1987). He has reviewed poetry in a number of journals, and been published in several as well. Sympathies: labour and the progressive left. Antipathies: bigotry and bad writing. For more see www.firstwrite.ca.

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 collections of poetry and 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. 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. 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, was 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."

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 can be contacted, eeeeelly, at 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. 

Jason Camlot [INTERVIEW]

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."

Brandon Cole [FICTION] writes: "I am a writer/director living in Brooklyn, New York. I have written, co-written, directed, or produced five independent feature films: MAC and ILLUMINATA, co-written with John Turturro; SONS and the recently released 13 MOONS, co-written with Alexandre Rockwell; and OK GARAGE, which I wrote and directed that starred Lili Taylor, John Turturro, and Will Patton. The High-Heeled Shoe is a story about a movie that did not get made." Read an interview with Brandon.

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] teaches English at John Abbott College outside Montreal. His debut poetry collection, Postscript (Signal 2004), was shortlisted for the 2005 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

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.

Lynda Curnoe [FICTION] has been published by Ergo Books, Lyricalmyrical Press, Open Letter, The Literary Review of Canada, Psychic Rotunda and The London Reader.

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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. 

Craig Davidson [INTERVIEW] is the author of Rust and Bone, a new story collection of full of dog fighting, sex addicts, boxers and magicians.

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.

Misha Firer [FICTION] was born in 1979 in Ulyanovsk, Russia. He lived in Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, New York and currently resides in Oakland, California. His stories have appeared in Ascent, BIG News, City Writers, In Posse Review, Laundry Pen, Nuvein, Paumanok Review, Pink Chameleon, Rose & Thorn, Scarlet Letters, Skive, Slow Trains, Taint, Tryst, Vestal Review, Word Riot and Ululation.

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.

Elyse Friedman [INTERVIEW]

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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[FICTION] Avital Gad-Cykman's work has been published or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Prism International, Other Voices, Happy, Stand Magazine, AIM Quarterly, The Bridge, Gargoyle Magazine, The Binnacle and other publications. It has also appeared online in Salon, Zoetrope All-story Extra, Salt Hill Review, 3am, In-Posse Review and elsewhere. Her story collection was one of the six finalists for Iowa Fiction Award. 

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.

Steven Hansen [FICTION] is a contributing editor for www.smallspiralnotebook.com and Ink Pot literary journal. He grew up in Iowa, served in the Navy in California and now finds himself in New Mexico with a beautiful wife who loves whales. He's had stories published on the Web in Samsara Quarterly, FRiGG Magazine and The Paumanok Review. You can contact him at namjimbo@hotmail.com.

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).

Renée Hartleib [FICTION] is a writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her fiction has appeared in The Antigonish Review and is forthcoming in The New Quarterly and Carousel.

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.

Karen Hines [INTERVIEW] is the creator/performer of the award-winning solo shows Pochsy's Lips, and Oh, baby (Pochsy's Adventures by the Sea), and Citizen Pochsy, which have toured across North America and in Europe.

Harold Hoefle [BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS]. His short story manuscript-in-progress won the runner-up prize for the David Adams Richard Award 2003. He published a chapbook, Spray Job, with Black Bile Press. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

[FICTION] Hannah Holborn's fiction is forthcoming in Room of One's Own, Girls with Insurance and The Avatar Review and has appeared in Front & Centre, Room of One's Own (issue 24:4), Words literary journal and Sights Unseen: New Writing From British Columbia. She is writing a novel.

Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers [FICTION] have won a Pushcart Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and two Nebula Awards, among other honors. He teaches fiction writing for the Whidbey Writers low-residency MFA, and also teaches writing seminars in Greece (www.write-in-crete.com) and Italy (www.write-across-europe.com). Subscribers from all over the world receive his newest stories by e-mail. See www.shortshortshort.com. He recently lived near the St. Clair subway station in Toronto, but now resides in Eugene, Oregon.

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.

Meghan Hurley [INTERVIEWS] is a journalism student at Ryerson University. She has done freelance work for various publications across the province and is very interested in political reporting. In 2004, she was an Editor for McClung's Magazine, Ryerson's feminist voice for women. 

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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