Aidan Baker is a writer and musician from Toronto. He has had prose and poetry published internationally in various literary and scholarly journals. He is the author of a book of poetry and drawings, FINGERSPELLING (Penumbra Press). His second book, a sequence of poetry and stories entitled WOUND CULTURE (Unbound Books) is due out in the spring of 2002, with an accompanying cd soundtrack.

Meryl Duprey lives in Williams Lake, BC.

Keith Ebsary has published poetry or fiction in zygote magazine, backwater review, bywords, north, blue moon magazine,and litwit review. He is soon to publish in filling station magazine. Keith lives in Ottawa where he works as a technical writer.

Rob McLennan received the 1999 CAA/Air Canada Award for the Canadian writer under 30 demonstrating the most potential. He has authored five poetry books, over two dozen chapbooks, and is editor of three anthologies, Stanzas magazine and above/ground press.

Saskatoon poet Glen Sorestad has authored well over a dozen books of poetry, the most recent this year's 25-year selected poems volume, Leaving Holds Me Here. He is Saskatchewan's Poet Laureate, the first provincially appointed poet laureate in the country. He is a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets and a Founder of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

George Stanley was born and raised in San Francisco where, in the sixties, he was a member of Jack Spicer's circle. A long time educator in Terrace, BC, Stanley is now retired and living in Vancouver. His books include The Stick, Opening Day, Temporarily, San Francisco's Gone, and Gentle Northern Summer.