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SYLVIA ADAMS has published a novel, This Weather of Hangmen, a prize-winning chapbook, Mondrian's Elephant, and a poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon. She was 2005 winner of the Arc-sponsored Diana Brebner prize and was a finalist for the Malahat Long Poem Award. A poetry group instructor/facilitator, she edits and publishes chapbooks as Adar Press. In 2007 she led a poetry workshop in Chile.
MADHUR ANAND was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1971. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change at The University of Guelph. As a scientist, she has authored over 40 research articles in ecology. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian and American literary journals including CV2, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review and Room and has been anthologized in The Shape of Form, an anthology of creative writing about science. One of her poems was nominated for a Puschart prize. She is co-editing an anthology of poetry about restoration ecology and working on her own poetry manuscript.
JOSH AUERBACH'S poetry has been published in literary journals in Canada, the USA, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Greece and Japan. Recent work is in The Fiddlehead, Short Fuse Anthology (Rattapallax), Poetry NZ, Abiko Quarterly and Potomac Review. His poems have received the Milton Acorn Prize, the Irving Layton Award, the Warren Keith Wright Award, the Ray Burrell Awarde, as well as commendation for the Petra Davoren Prize and the LaPointe Prize. His recently completed first ms. is entitled Natural Exile. He is editor of Vallum.
KEMENY BABINEAU lives and writes in Mt. Pleasant Ontario Southwith two daughters, aged 5 and 2, and his ageless wife Laurie.He has been published in some Canadian magazines and has had onechapbook entitled "Aural Geology" published byhousepress and four self published chapbooks, the latest of which,"The Apps Mill Sequence" and "To andFro," are still available. Currently he is editing apoetry manuscript entitled "What Remains" outof imperfection. Also, he is compiling the forthcoming anthology"The Mentor's Canon."
DEAN J. BAKER " is a combination of thought and torment that has made him write more than a baker's dozen of fine poems.. he might produce a collection that could astound us all."- Irving Layton, who taught Leonard Cohen, and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature, in The Toronto Star. Baker is a member of Socan, has performed his songs and poems in Toronto and California. He has over 500 poems and prose poems published since 1972 in over 130 literary publications in Canada, the USA, England, Australia, New Zealand, etc., such as Descant, Carleton Literary Review, Poetry WLU, The Prairie Journal, Freelance, Nexus, Bitterroot, Oxalis, Bogg, Aileron, RE:AL, Art Times, Pegasus, Impetus, On The Bus, and many others. http://www.deanjbaker.com or http://deanjbaker.wordpress.com/
REBECCA ANNE BANKS began writing poetry at a young age and as a passion it consumes her life, as a Poet, professional writer, artist and songwriter. She has had poems published in The Northern Woman's Journal, self-published 11 chapbooks of poetry on www.tympanilanerecords.com and is about to self-publish in hard copy her most recent poetry works (The Stories of the Blue Islands: by the lilacs of August . . . ) She also composes Folk and Folk/Rock music, performing in public venues, has a number of CD projects awaiting recording and create photograph collaborations, quilts and art. Currently, she performs in the cavern stoneworks of the Metro amongst the blue quiet magic of Montreal.
BLANCA BAQUERO'S origins are Spanish and French. Born in Chicago, her family moved to Canada in 1959 and made Montreal their new home.
Blanca has been writing for the past fifteen years. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary magazines, university works, and anthologies in Canada and in the United States. In 2001, the Canadian Authors Association chose two of her poems (Repletus and Child’s Play) to be published in their anthology. In 2001 she was the winner of the literary contest organized by the Salon du Livre de la Côte-Nord in the province of Quebec.
For the past seven years the poet has been writing Haïkus. In 2002, 2004, and 2005 several of her haïkus were published in Quebec by Les Éditions David of Ottawa. Additional highlights include: honourable mention in the Betty Drevniok Award 2005 organized by Haïku Canada; the publication of two of her haïkus in Belgium in 2006; and third place winner in a haïku contest organized in Paris, France by l’Association française de haïku.
The writer moved to Nova Scotia in November 2002 and lives on the North Mountain near Canning where she is continually inspired by the pastoral beauty of the Annapolis Valley for her poetry and haïkus.
GWEN BARTLEMAN is a proud, out dyke who was born in Ottawa and has called Toronto home since 1981. She works in theatre and the visual arts and her poems and prose have been published in anacoenisis (TRADE: Queer Things); The Last Sex (St. Martin's Press); Church Wellesley Review/Xtra Magazine (Pink Triangle Press); Rites Magazine and she has given public readings at Strange Sisters, 40 Tiny Performances, Cheap Queers and The Toronto Fringe Festival. Currently, she is working on Floating in an Eddy of Femme, her first collection of poetry.
DIEGO BASTIANUTTI Born in Fiume in 1939, he moved with his family to Genoa in 1947 after the option to remain Italians, and 5 years later emigrated to North America. After a B.A.h. and an M.A. in Spanish literature, and an M.A. in International Business, he received a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Toronto. Professor of Spanish literature at Queens University from 1970 to 1997, he was also responsible for the development of the Italian Studies programme. During his tenure he initiated and promoted a variety of cultural activities founding among others the Dante Alighieri Society and being named Honorary Vice Consul of Italy for Eastern Ontario (1977-1995). Besides his academic publications in Spanish, Italian and English dealing in particular with Spanish theatre of the XVI and XVII centuries, and the development of Computer Assisted Programmes (CAI) for the teaching of foreign languages, he published the definitive English translation of the poetic works of Ungaretti, A Major Selection of the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1997, 466 pp., which received the 1998 John Glassco Prize for best translation in English of a foreign literary work.Thanks to academic grants he published two volumes of poetry: Il punto caduto and La barca in secco. His third volume of poetry, Per un pugno di terra/For a Fistful of Soil (240 pp.) has been published in both in Italian and English.
MARION BECK was born in Rossendale, England and is a resident of Regina. She is an advocate for autistic children and a founder member and past president of the Canadian Society for Autistic Children. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and literary magazines, most recently Malahat Review, Arc, Pennine Ink 2009 (UK), 6 chapbooks, most notably Poems for Amazon(Moonprint 1995) and Frustrations of an Urban Gardener (2007). She was twice the judge for the Milton Acorn Peoples Poetry book award.
GEORGE BERNSTEIN was born and educated in Toronto. An orthopedicsurgeon currently practising in Windsor, he has published manypoems, several stories, essays and book reviews in Canadian andAmerican journals. He serves as a corresponding editor of MEDIPHORand is a member of Windsor Officers, Club, Canadian Author,sAssociation, National Writers Press Club, New York Academy ofSciences and Biological Section of American Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronautics.
CATHERINE BLACK is a Toronto-born writer and a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s M.F.A. writing program. Presently she teaches critical writing at the Ontario College of Art and Design and facilitates creative writing workshops for street youth in downtown Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in several Canadian and American literary journals including The Fiddlehead, The Harpweaver, Scrivener Creative Review, and Rhino.
MARILYN BOYLE lives in the Caledon Hills. Her work appeared in the poetry anthology, Celebrating Canadian Women (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), as well as in Poet's Market. With a chapbook, lyingstill, and membership in SOCAN, she performed readings and interdisciplinary works at many venues, such as Music Gallery, Western Front, Literary Storefront, and The Rivoli, including a one woman show at the ARC gallery. Her work explores breath, design, and fragment.
JOHN BROOK was born in Shropshire, England in 1931. He
servedas a
RAF pilot officer, before migrated to Australia in 1953,where he earned
a B.A. and subsequently taught English and French.He also holds a
diploma in contemporary French culture from Lille,France. His poetry
has been published in Australia and Canadaand he was the First Poet
Laureate of Kamloops, B.C., where he,now retired, lives with his wife.
JOANNE M. BRYANT was born in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1983 she moved to Western Canada and is now residing in the majestic mountains of Vancouver, British Columbia. Joanne works within mining industry office management, and is published within anthologies throughout Canada and the United States.
She is a watercolour and sketch artist, enjoying photography, poetry and singing including involvement in various voluntary worship and musical productions. Joanne enjoys writing about relationships, life and Christianity.
DAVID BRYDGES divides his passion for poetry between his home town of Cobalt Ontario where he is artistic director of spring pulse poetry fesival. In Edmonton he verbally jams with kool poetry kats at stroll of poets and raving poets reading series.Blue Apple Press is his self-publishing company where he shares the "juices of the muses". Poetry is a lifelong lust.
IAN BURGHAM, born in New Zealand, has lived and worked in both New Zealand and Scotland and now lives in Canada.
"A Confession of Birds" (Chapbook) was published in the UK by Maclean Dubois in 2003. His first collection "The Stone Skippers" was published in 2007 by Tightrope Books (Canada), Maclean Dubois (UK), and SunLine Press (Australia). His third collection, "The Grammar of Distance" was published in 2010 by Tightrope Books (Canada).
In 2004 he won the Queen's University Well-Versed Award for poetry. In 2008, "The Stone Skippers" was long-listed for the Relit Award.
FERN G. Z. CARR is a former corporate-commercial lawyer, past president of the Kelowna branch of the BC SPCA and teacher. She composes and translates poetry in five languages. Carr has been invited to read her poetry in New York and Montreal. Publication credits include Prairie Fire, The Windsor Review, Canadian Writer's Journal, Magnapoets, Outlook and Soliloquies Anthology. Her work has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to Australia and is archived in several university libraries.
LAUREN M. CARTER'S work has appeared in Green's Magazine,Grain, Event, Contemporary Verse 2, Adbusters, Another TorontoQuarterly and other publications. She was short-listed forThis Magazine's 2001 Great Canadian Literary Hunt, their2002 Best New Writer Creative Non-Fiction Competition and,with Ontario Arts Council's assistance, has completed a firstmanuscript of poetry. Other interests include travelling Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Eastern and Western Europe and otherplaces and activist work in the Humanist Movement.
LILIANA CONTI emigrated from Italy in 1959. She attended both University of Toronto and York University and became a teacher and a mother of five children.
Now Lillian Conti has a degree in Theology from Tyndale University and is a licensed Pastor. She is presently teaching Theology, English and Art. The stories and poems in her book: The Two Hearts Of My house, I Due Cuori Di Casa Mia capture the essence of her spirituality.
DALE COOPER lives in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated
high school and her favourite subject was English. Later on she attended Concordia University for a year and received a Certificate of Office Automation. She worked in data entry and verification of documents at a local income tax office. Since she left work she has been writing her poems. She has been given several Editors Choice Awards Certificates. She won
a bronze medal from The International Society of Poets. She has a new book called Dale's Garden of Poetry and it is available at online book stores.
DINA E. COX is a poet, an occasional freelancer, and a musician living in Ontario. Her poetry has been published in CV2, The Gaspereau Review, The Cormorant, Modern English Tanka, Simply Haiku, and in several anthologies including in 2008, Carpe Diem (Les Editions David and Borealis Press), and Ash Moon Anthology (Modern English Tanka Press). She is a past winner of the Betty Drevniok Award for haiku.
LINDA LEE CROSFIELD was born in Nelson, BC in 1948. She worked for Air Canada in Ottawa, Windsor, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, before returning to the Kootenays in 1988. From 1991 to 1996 she studied creative writing at the Kootenay School of Arts in Nelson. Her poems have appeared in Room of One?s Own, Horsefly, The New Orphic Review, Poemata, Between Sleeps (en theos press 2006), Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press 2006), The Fed Anthology (Anvil Press 2003), and in Ways to Get to Here (NIB Publishing 2004). In 2005 her poetry manuscript, Cudda Been Rich, was among the top ten considered for the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award. She?s a member of the editorial committee for Word Works, the Federation of BC Writers? quarterly journal. Linda lives in Ootischenia, near Castlegar, BC, where she writes poetry and prose and creates hand-made books through her imprint, NIB Publishing. NIB stands for nose-in-book, where hers can usually be found. Visit her online at http://web.mac.com/lindacrosfield/iWeb/lindaleecrosfield/Home.html
VIVIAN DEMUTH is an Alberta author of the poetry chapbook, Breathing Nose Mountain, and the ecological novel, Eyes of the Forest. She hosts an annual Poetry on the Peaks at a firelookout, serves on the Freedom to Write Committee of PEN and has taught writing in homeless shelters and the Women’s Studio Center in New York. Her work has been widely published and her poetry website is: www.poetspath.com/exhibits/viviandemuth
ANTONY DI NARDO's poetry is published widely in journals across
Canada and internationally. His collection of poems, "Alien,
Correspondent," is forthcoming from Brick Books in spring 2010. He writes
fiction, non-fiction and resource texts for the education market and his
reviews have appeared in Books in Canada. He lives in West Beirut where he
teaches at International College.
KELLY NORAH DRUKKER is a poet and writer of creative non-fiction. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Kelly has lived and taught English in Canada, Switzerland, France and Ireland, and seeks to explore the histories and mythologies of the places she has lived in her writing. Kelly is the second-prize winner of the 2006 CBC Literary Award for poetry. Her work has appeared in A Room of One's Own, Headlight Anthology and Poetry New Zealand, among other publications. She is a graduate of Concordia University's Joint Honours English Literature and Creative Writing Program, and holds a post-graduate certificate from the Humber School for Writers. She is currently completing her first manuscript of poems and is working on a collection of travel essays.
DANIELA ELZA has lived on three continents and crossed numerous geographic and cultural borders. She has released more than 140 poems into the world (in more than 42 publications). Her interests lie in the gaps and bridges between poetry, language, and philosophy. Daniela delights in writing and inspiring others on their writing paths. She lives with her family in Vancouver, and spo.radically blogs at: http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/
MARK FEATHERSTONE'S work has appeared in Canadian and American journals, including Arc, The Danforth Review, The Mandrake Poetry Review, ChiZine, and HMS Beagle. Three of his poems were chosen for the anthology Let Yourself Go from Black Moss Press. Two Montreal presses have published original pieces including a broadsheet (Mechanicsville, Metonymy Press), a chapbook anthology (Playing in the Mud, Over the Moon Press) and a limited edition chapbook (Mechanicsville, Over the Moon Press). His submission ?On the Way Out? was short-listed for the Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Competition in 2004, and his entry Again by Flood was likewise short-listed for the Fiddlehead Poetry Competition. The Offer was an Editor's Choice in the Arc poetry competition of 2000. He currently lives in Singapore.
PEGGY FLETCHER, born in Newfoundland, living in Sarnia, ON. Author of five poetry books, four poetry chapbooks, one short story collection, full-length play, numerous publications in literary journals and magazines including Antigonish Review, West Coast Review, Small Pond,, Chatelaine, Poetry Australia. Has won many awards. Member of The Ontario Poetry Society, CPA, P.E.N Canada. Visual art work includes painting, sculpture Married with five grown daughters, many grandchildren Honors Graduate UWO 1981. Taught English and Creative Writing at Lambton College, Sarnia.
DEBORAH FOULKS is a free-lance writer and singer, born in NewYork in 1951, and raised in British Columbia. Her poetry has beenfeatured in various literary magazines and anthologies. She hasalso written several plays and three novels, unpublished to date.Presently she resides in Vancouver.
MYRNA GARANIS is a member of the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and the Edmonton Stroll of Poets. Her work has appeared in Eyeing the Magpie; Writing the Land: Alberta Through its Poets; Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan; Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Her on-air credits include CBC Radio's Alberta Anthology, Poetry Face-Off, and CKUA's The Road Home.
ELIZABETH GLENNY currently presents writing workshops sponsored by the St. Catharines Public Library for teenagers and adults. From 1999 through 2004 she coordinated a provincial poetry contest and the publication of The Saving Bannister, an anthology, sponsored by the Canadian Authors Association, Niagara. Elizabeth’s poetry has been published in several Canadian literary journals and her first collection of poems will be published in May 2007.
ERINA HARRIS has published works across Canada, including:The Fiddlehead, Arc, Exile, Grain, Vintage, NeWest Review& many zines and mags. Published chapbook the 82 shortpoems of eliza in 1997 (now memorabilia). Her poetry has beenawarded THIS Magazine's Great Literary Hunt Prize (1998), People'sPoetry Poem Contest Prize (1999), ARC Editor's Choice Poem (1999),short-listing for Bronwen Wallace Award (2000), and 2nd prizein Britain's The New Writer Poetry Collection competition (2001).
STERLING HAYES is a writer in retirement, an ex doctor [doctor x] who publishes zany stories and nonsense poetry for Rogers TV, The New Quarterly, Descant, BC History, The BC Medical Journal &c. Two poems were short-listed for the best poems in Canada - one by James Deahl Publishing and latest by Descant magazine [2006]- both non-winners. Writes a humour column for the Kelowna Daily Courier every few weeks.
DARLENE SPONG HENDERSON has been writing poetry since her youth. Born and raised in London, Ontario, she and her husband moved to Alberta to plant roots and start their family. In 2005, she and her husband were transplanted from the Prairie to the West Coast. A member of Poet's Ink, the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Federation of BC Writers, the Shore Line Writers Society (of Port Moody), the Vancouver International Writers Festival and Vancouver Poetry House, Darlene is also an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets.
Darlene’s poetry has been influenced over the years by her sisters’ deaths, her concern for women’s issues, as well as a profound connection to this planet. A lover of poetry, written and the spoken word, Darlene digs living and writing in a place where the land meets the sea.
DAVID W. HENDERSON was born in Victoria, in 1938, and grewup in Vancouver and Hopkins Landing, BC. He has a Bachelor,s degreefrom UBC and a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT. Writing is a relativelyrecent preoccupation for him. His poetry and short stories haveappeared in a modest array of magazines and anthologies. He livesin the Ottawa area.
DEBBIE OKUN HILL started writing poetry about four years ago. Since then, over 115 of her poems have been/will be published in over 50 different publications including Quills, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Saving Bannister, Leaf Press Monday's Poem, and the New York based MOBIUS. She is the 2007 recipient of the Ted Plantos Memorial Award and in 2008 Beret Days Press published her first chapbook Swaddled in Comet Dust. www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Memberprofile009.htm
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KEITH INMAN has many hats, but likes the peak and hidden earflaps of his poetry cap best. 1st prize pins in the felt are: Cranberry Tree 07, The Bannister 04, and Freefall 04. Other pins include: Thistledown, Event, New Quarterly, CV2, PRECIPICe and robmclennansblogspot. There's judging, editing, 'Reserve' and 'Progress' grant-badges from the OAC, and one from Sigillate Press, for being one of three poets in their book 'Hanging on a Nail,' 09. A chapbook, 'Tactile Hunters,' by Cubicle Press, was brooched in 05.
Keith wears this cap in and around the backstreets and countryside of the Niagara Peninsula.
LORRAINE JANZEN has been writing poetry for over twenty years.Most of her recent poems have been written from a feminist perspective,celebrating her middle-age rebirth, and exploring what it meansto be a woman. She has a number of academic and poetry publications.Lorraine lives in North Bay, Ontario.
HEDDY JOHANNESEN has published a book of poetry, entitled
Metamorphosis, two magazine articles published in The Source magazine and
one in Pets Quarterly. She is a Halifax-based freelance writer. Her blog
site is- http://jailbirdpoet.blogspot.com. She performs poetry readings
locally at the Seahorse and at Local Jo's cafe, hosted by David
Rimmington. Metamorphosis is available at select bookstores in Halifax, at www.publishyourself.ca and at www.poets.ca.She has published a short story
about the tranquility of the woods near her grandparents' home on the
Cabot Trail, at
http://www.naturecanada.ca/take_action_creative_corner_stories.asp#tranquility
MALCOLM DOUGLAS JOHNSTONE, a native of England, was
educatedat
Ellesmere College, Shropshire, and at Cambridge. Before immigratingto
Canada in 1967, he was in the National Service with Royal
ArmyEducational Corps. In Canada, he worked for the National
TrustCompany and the CIBC. His poetry, mostly humorous verse, has
beenpublished in numerous magazines. In 1996, he won a prize at
theOrillia International Poetry Festival.
SANDRA KASTURI is a poet, writer, editor, and creator of a kids ’ TV series. She has won ARC’s Poem of the Year award and a Bram Stoker Award. She is Senior Editor of ChiZine Publications, and runs Kelp Queen Press. Sandra has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table. Her most recent publication is The Animal Bridegroom, from Tightrope Books.
SHERRENE D. KEVAN has been teaching at Wilfrid Laurier University for 14 years. She's been an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets for about 16 years. She is still writing poetry and occasionally finds one poem that is good enough to submit to a journal or a contest.
MICHE KOHLER was born in Ottawa, and educated in Canada and the United Kingdom. She has worked as a busker, art director, production supervisor, communications specialist, international development officer, and official elections observer in Africa. In 2007, Miche was a finalist for the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. She received a select scholarship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and an SLS fellowship in 2010. Her work has been published in the British literary quarterly, Ambit, as well as Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, winning first prize for the fourth Byron's Quill Award for Poetry. She currently lives in Ottawa.
ANGELA KUBLIK is an Edmonton based writer whose poetry has appeared in The Prairie Journal, Legacy, and FreeFall, as well as online at DailyHaiku.Org. She co-edited the best-selling anthology Writing the Land: Alberta through its Poets with Grande Prairie poet Dymphny Dronyk. She also edits blueskiespoetry.ca, an online journal that provides a forum for emerging and established poets to find a wider audience for their work, with a particular emphasis on writing by Canadians.
LENORE LANGS's poetry has appeared in CV 2,The New Quarterly, University of Windsor Review, andother literary magazines. She organizes and coordinates poetryreadings and reads publicly herself in Windsor and Detroit.
MONIKA HOPE LEE has had poems published in many literary journals, including in "Event," "Atlantis," "The Fiddlehead," "Antigonish Review," "Canadian Literature," "Ariel," and "Qwerty." Her first poetry chapbook, slender threads, will be published in 2004 by the Canadian Poetry Association.
Born in England, PETER A. LETENDRE obtained a BA from the University of Winnipeg. His poems and short stories have appeared in Grain and various on-line magazines. He co-wrote an unpublished children's novel (The Mistletoe Caper) with Marilyn McNally and collaborated with his wife, Patricia, on a scientific writing book (The Fundamentals of Writing for the Biomedical Sciences) that was translated into Japanese. He has self-published two books of poetry, "If I Could Be A Doughnut" (2008)and "Romantic Life of Toast"(2009). He currently lives in Edmonton.
LOIS LORIMER was born in Brockville and educated at Queen's, University of Toronto, and The National Theatre School. She's acted for the Shaw Festival and in film and radio. Her poetry has been published in Hart House Review and Fevered Spring Anthology. Her first chapbook, Last Fall Showing, was published in 2009. Her new chapbook, Between the Houses, was published in Edinburgh by Maclean Dubois. Lois works as a teacher-librarian in Toronto supporting literacy and creative writing.
DEB LOUGHEAD is an award-winning writer living in Toronto. Her first book of poems, "All I Need and other poems for kids" (Moonstruck Press) was published in 1998. She's written twelve books for children, some in Norwegian, Swedish and French translations. Her two rhyming plays, "The Grasshopper and the Ant" and "Hey Diddle Diddle" were published by Scholastic in 2005. "The Thing I Saw Last Night", a narrative poem, will be published by Scholastic in fall 2006. www.debloughead.ca
CAROL L. MACKAY's poems have recently appeared in Prairie Journal, CV2, Crannog (Ireland), Watershed (Calif. State U., Chico), as well as heard on CBC Radio during National Poetry Month 2008. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as "Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing From Alberta"(U of A Press, 1999), "White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood" (Demeter Press, 2007), and "Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets" (Blue Skies Press, 2007). A collection of poems, Othala, was short-listed for the 2004 CBC Literary Awards. She lives on Vancouver Island.
JULIE MAHFOOD was born in Kingston, Jamaica; she is a writer and editor who now lives near Montreal where she hosts WIRE, a quarterly reading series for Montreal’s West Island writers, in addition to raising her two preschool-aged children. Julie was shortlisted in THIS Magazine’s 2008 Great Canadian Literary Hunt; her work has appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Antigonish Review, Room, carte blanche, Telling Stories: New English Stories from Quebec, Bibliosofia (Italy) and on the CD DuBref Session 1: Spoken word anthology, with upcoming in montreal serai.
MARGARET MALLOCH ZIELINSKI was educated in Scotland but now lives in Ottawa. She has received awards from the CBC, CPA, Contemporary Verse 2, and the Lapointe, Milton Acorn, Tidepool, and Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contests. Her work has been published in The Antigonish Review, Geist and Room of One's Own as well as in various anthologies and was shortlisted twice for Arc's Poem of the Year Contest. She has published a chapbook, Driftwood and is currently completing her first collection, Blue Tissue Paper.
PETER MCEWEN, as an art educator, visual artist and poet, has always been involved with the creative process. Over the years, he has written some short stories (occasionally published) and contributed a weekly column to local newspapers. However, for the past five years, he has focused much of his creative energy on writing poetry, becoming a "regular" in Giving Voice to Spirit an ongoing workshop conduced by Al Moritz. To date, this has been the greatest influence on his work. His work has appeared in The Windsor Review, Ice (an anthology,Spotted Cow Press, 1999), the CPA anthology and ArtCity Magazine. One of his poems was included as part of an installation piece at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario and he was commissioned to write a prose poem for the opening of their new gallery. As well, he has printed - on a hand operated Vandervook SP15 proof press - and hand-bound a limited edition entitled Sound Poems based on life in Parry Sound, Georgian Bay. Currently he is compiling a book length manuscript.
JAMES P. MCAULIFFE is a husband and father of four. He
works as a professional driver and is the creative director of
Hideout Press. Recent works available are a solo cd, From Chaos To
Poetry, and poetry collection, Since My Return. James has been
featured in Street 4, Hammered Out, Murderous Signs and Free Fall.
James has read in many places and produced many readings. He
recently featured at the Skydradon Centre in Hamilton as part of
LitLive.
James looks forward to being a full-time poet once again, if he
lives that long. www.hideoutpress.ca
PATRICIA ANNE MCGOLDRICK writes poems, essays and reviews. In 2010, Earth Hour poem published at http://www.chapterandverse.ca/poetry/315-observations-on-earth-hour.html . Poems published at Sleet; Irish American Post; Chapter And Verse; Cyclamens and Swords; League of Canadian Poets; Contributions are in: Frost and Foliage; Voices Israel Anthology 2009; Ice: New Writing on Hockey; Love & Longing in the Near North; The Changing Image,2008,1994; The Grand Table Anthology. Patricia is a member of The Ontario Poetry Society and The Canadian Poetry Association. Blogs:http://pmpoetwriter.blogspot.com/ ; http://pm27.wordpress.com/. Web: http://sites.google.com/site/pmpoetwriter
STUART IAN MCKAY lives and writes in Calgary, where he
was born. His
first published poem was in 1993, while studying English literature at
the University of Calgary. Since then, Stuart's work has been published
in many Canadian journals, such as Prairie Journal of Canadian
Literature and Orange. As Junior Poetry Editor of Dandelion, he helped produce its 25th Anniversary Edition. Issues of culture,
place, identity and history are central to Stuart's work. The long poem
is increasingly his favoured medium of poetic expression, and he enjoys
the freedom it allows for experimentation in form, structure and
language. Stuart is also exploring how poetry can draw other artistic
disciplines into a unified voice. Stuart joined the Writers Guild of
Alberta in 1999. During 2002 to 2003 he represented the Guild on the
Steering Committee of the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers
Program at the University of Calgary. From 2000 to 2001, he was
President of the Calgary Society of Poets, Bards and Storytellers, a
non-profit organization that produces poetry readings in and around
Calgary. Typically, Stuart reads in, organizes or is host for 10 events
a year. Many League members have participated in these events, most
notably "Poetry on the Peak" at the Banff Centre in March 2002. Stuart
was recently Writer in Resident at Rundle College in Calgary, teaching
high school students the art and craft of writing poetry. He is pleased
to be a member of the League of Canadian Poets. rhmckay@shaw.ca
CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN's poetry has appeared most recently in Home & Away (2009); Arborealis, A Canadian Anthology of Poetry (2008); Legacy, Alberta's Heritage, Arts & Culture magazine (2008); Writing the Land, Alberta Through Its Poets (2007); blueskiespoetry.ca; www.dailyhaiku.org, Cycle 4; Daily Haiku print journal (2008)
She has researched, written and performed poetry in the regional stage shows Heart's Journey and Power of the Land. Catherine's poetic voice informs her photography.
ANDY MICHAELSON wrote a little in high school and returned to writing poetry and prose as he closed in on retirement age. Andy joined the Edmonton Stroll of Poets to perform his work and is now a member of the League of Canadian Poets (Associate), Writers Guild of Alberta, Raving Poets Society and co-founder of Poet’s Ink.
Poet’s Ink is a writing and poetry program development organization that services the greater Edmonton area which poetry events and a weekly writing and critique circle.
Often described as a back-fence philosopher, Andy is an artist member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning through the Arts program working with the elementary school curriculum and poetry in grades four, five and six.
His poem Whale Bone was published November 2005 in the Leaf Press chapbook titled Object, ISBN 0-9735920-7-9
His poem Birch and Bird will be published in November 2006 in the Leaf chapbook titled Anecdote.
A compilation of the works of five Poet’s Ink authors, including Andy, Words are Ashes is scheduled for publication and release in early October 2006.
ISA MILMAN currently resides in Victoria, B.C. Her first published poem appeared in The Malahat Review, Spring 2002, and her second was an editor's choice for Arc Poetry Magazine's 2002 poem of the year contest. Her chapbook, "Seven Fat Years", was published by Frog Hollow Press in May 2002. Her work has also appeared in Other Voices, Zachor, and Moving Small Stones, an anthology edited by Patrick Lane.
MICHAELA MORE is the pen name for Susan Eck. Her creative writingfocuses on lyrical poetry and song lyrics. She has three poetrybook published to her credit and anthologies. Her books, TheAngels Cried With Me, On the Wings of An Angel, and TheAngels Sing With Me all explore an spiritual journey. Thisstyle of poetry inspires the reader to reflect on love, passion,loneliness and gratitude with exceptional skill and sensitivelythat maps out an adventure for a human heart that touches thereader's heart. Contact: Susan Eck Phone: (705) 769-1015 Email:SusanEck@senecac.on.ca
MARY ANGELA NANGINI has two published poetry books with the
scholarly publisher Mellen Poetry Press: Woman In Exile, 1991
and My Ontario Beautiful, 1995. She is an artist, Catholic Teacher
and the author of The Four Phases of Being (unpublished, 1992). For more
information, she maintains poetry web sites at these locations:
Webshots:http://community.webshots.com/user/nangini
AuthorsDen:http://www.authorsden.com/maryangelanangini
Home web site: http://www.nangini.com
LOUISE O'DONNELL Born and educated in Toronto, moved to Wellington(pop 1500) 1990. poems published in magazines and anthologiesacross Canada,(also some in USA, Australia) including event,The Antigonish Review, Room of One's Own, CV 2. Most recentpublications in 1999 edition of Harpweaver and On theThreshold: Writing Toward the Year 2000. Five self publishedchapbooks in print. Readings in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Bellevilleand Prince Edward County.
JOANNE OSBORNE-PAULSON is a member of Poet’s Ink in St Albert, of The Edmonton Stroll of Poets, and The Writer’s Guild of Alberta. Joanne holds a B.A. Special with Distinction in English from the University of Alberta. Her poem, Life is Still was published in Dandelion Vol. 9, No. 1 in 1982 . Interlude of Compassion was published in Grain Vol. 24, No. 2, 1996, as an honourable mention in the Short Grain Poetry Contest. Dream Coat won second place in the 2005 Tangent Lines Poetry Contest. Joanne’s stage adaptation, with Gerry Potter, of Henry Kreisel’s novel, The Rich Man, was published in The Canadian Theatre Review in 1988. Words are Ashes, a compilation of the works of five Poet’s Ink authors, including Joanne, is scheduled for publication and release in early 2007.
KAREN P. OUELLETTE's poetry is influenced by her 35 years of ballet training and by her work with the disabled. Her poems have appeared in Whetstone, Kaleidoscope, Windsor Review, Quills Magazine, The Saving Bannister, and by Black Moss Press, Leaf Press and Cranberry Tree Press. She is one of the five poets presented in "A Thousand Yellow Leaves" 2004, and in "Tongues of Whitewashed Stone", 2008 -Works by Five Poets.
