*Rafi Aaron lives in Toronto. His book of poetry, A Seed In The Pocket Of Their Blood, first published in Canada in 1997, was acquired by Syracuse University Press in 2000. His poems have appeared in English, Hebrew translation, and in anthologies.

Marc Duane Anderson lives in Sarnia, Ontario. His reviews have appeared in American Book Review, The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, and The Writer.

*John Wall Barger lives in Halifax, where he teaches English at Saint Mary's University. His work is also forthcoming in the HazMat Review.

Maxianne Berger, an audiologist in Montréal. She is currently focussing on haiku and on translation. Her book of poems, How We Negotiate, appeared in 1999.

Kate Braid's last book of poems, Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr, won the Vancity Book Prize. She teaches at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo.

*Stephen Brockwell is the author of Cometology. His work has recently appeared in The Drunken Boat, It's Still Winter, and The New Delta Review. He lives in Ottawa.

*Su Croll's poems have appeared in Event, Other Voices, Contemporary Verse 2, Antigonish Review, and Room of One's Own. Her first book, Worlda Mirth, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. She lives in Edmonton.

Brian Day's first book of poetry, Love is not Native to my Blood, was published in 2001. He teaches in Toronto.

Christopher Doda is a poet and editor living in Toronto. His first book, Among Ruins was published last fall by Mansfield Press.

Kristjana Gunnars has published eight books of poetry (the latest is Silence of the Country) and five prose works hovering between fiction and nonfiction. She teaches at the University of Alberta.

Maureen Scott Harris's first book of poems, A Possible Landscape, was published by Brick Books in 1993. She placed second in the 2001 Poem of the Year Contest. She lives in Toronto.

*Matthew Holmes edits Modomnoc and is Chief Inspector of the bad repoesy mfg. co. (submissions to: modomnoc@toast.com). His poems and photographs have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Carousel, and Orientations. He lives in Ottawa.

*Ken Howe's first collection, Household Hints for the End of Time won the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award, a John V. Hicks manuscript award, and was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award. His second, Cruise Control: A Theogony, was published this fall.

*Bill Howell has published three poetry books, with recent work in Descant, Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Grain, Queen's Quarterly, and Queen Street Quarterly. He lives in Toronto.

David Jarraway teaches at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Question of Belief: “Metaphysician in the Dark” (1993) and Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (2003).

Chris Jennings is a compulsive reviewer when not writing his dissertation on the dramatic monologue at the University of Toronto. His chapbook Vacancies will be published in 2003.

Anita Lahey has published poetry and fiction in Arc, Grain, New Quarterly, and Pagiticia. She received First Honourable mention in the 2000 Bronwen Wallace Award. She lives in Ottawa.

*Genevieve Lehr, originally from Newfoundland, lives in Nova Scotia. Her work has appeared in TickleAce, The Newfoundland Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Riverine (Ireland).

Andrew Lesk recently completed his Ph.D. on Sinclair Ross's “gay fiction” and has published essays and reviews on Canadian fiction and poetry. He lives in Toronto.

*Esther Mazakian has published in Windsor Review, Antigonish Review, Malahat Review, Danforth Review, Gaspereau Review, and Descant. She lives in Toronto.

*Isa Milman, born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany in 1949, now lives in Victoria. Her chapbook “Seven Fat Years” was published this spring by Frog Hollow Press.

Barbara Myers, an Arc associate editor, lives and works in Ottawa.

Shane Neilson is a New Brunswicker living in Newfoundland. His poems, reviews, and stories have appeared in magazines across Canada.

Catherine Owen lives in Vancouver. Her books include Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele, Starvation Landscape, and the Dorothy Livesay Award-nominated The Wrecks of Eden.

Miranda Pearson's first book of poems is Prime. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, and Contemporary Verse 2. She lives in Vancouver.

Alison Pick is the recent winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry and the Writers Federation of New Brunswick's Alfred Bailey Manuscript Prize. She lives in Kitchener.

John Reibetanz lives in Toronto. His collections of poetry include Morning Watch and Mining for Sun, and much of his current work tries to push lyric poetry in the direction of short fiction.

*Antoni Romaszewski, an Ottawa-based artist, scenographer and poet, has exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe, and is represented in the collections of the Kinderhaus Art Centre (Germany), the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Ottawa, and Loto Quebec.

*David Seymour has published poetry, essays, and reviews in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prism international, Ellipse, and Filling Station. He lives and writes in Toronto.

*Sarah Shaughnessy is from Edmonton. She recently moved to Montreal to study Western Society and Culture at Concordia University.

E. Russell Smith's poetry has appeared in magazines across Canada and abroad. His most recent book of poems, Snowdrops and Other Flowers, is a joint project with artist Gerard Brender à Brandis. He lives in Ottawa.

Heather Spears is a Canadian poet and artist living in Denmark.

Carmine Starnino's Credo, won the 2001 CAA Award for Poetry. He lives in Montreal.

Russell Thornton's recent books are The Fifth Window (Thistledown, 2000) and A Tunisian Notebook (Seraphim, 2002). He lives in North Vancouver, B.C.

*Mary Trafford lives in Chelsea, Quebec. Her writing has appeared in bywords, (muse)Letters, Contemporary Verse 2, and Feminist Flavours: Recipes for Change (1998). She received an honourable mention from The Fiddlehead in 1996.

Rhea Tregebov's most recent book is The Strength of Materials. She lives, writes, and teaches in Toronto.

Chris Turnbull lives in Smiths Falls, where she is working on a collection of short stories. Her poetry chapbook, Shingles, was published by Thuja Press.

Martin Wallace is a PhD candidate in Canadian Literature at the University of Manitoba. He lives and writes in Shad Bay, Nova Scotia.

Deanna Young's second book of poems, Drunkard's Path, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2001. A participant in this year's Wired Writing Studio at Banff, she lives in Ottawa.

*The editors congratulate these contributors on their first appearance in Arc.