P.R. BARR lives and writes in Victoria, B. C.

MAXIANNE BERGER is an audiologist at the McGill University Health Centre. Compromis, the translation by Florence Buathier of her first book, How We Negotiate, is forthcoming from Écrits des forges.

STEPHANIE BOLSTER recently edited The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and is working on a book of poems about zoos. Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, will appear in French with Le Noroît in 2007, translated by Daniel Canty.

SUSIE BOWERS is currently working on her MA creative writing thesis at the University of New Brunswick. The thesis is a sequence of poems about Monica.

SUSAN BOZIC is a visual artist who lives in Vancouver, BC. She received her BFA, with distinction, from Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and in the USA in non-profit, public and commercial galleries. She recently completed a new photographic series called The Dating Portfolio. A catalogue of this work will be produced in conjunction with upcoming solo exhibitions at Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB) and Rodman Hall Arts Centre (St. Catherines, ON) in 2007. Bozic is listed as “one to watch” from the Houston Centre of Photography (Texas).

ASA BOXER is a Montreal poet and critic who won the 2005 CBC Literary Award for poetry. His first collection of poems will be published by Signal Editions in 2007. His poems have appeared in Poetry London, Oxford-Poetry Broadsides, enRoute Magazine and The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry.

DI BRANDT has published numerous volumes of poetry and creative essays, including questions i asked my mother, Agnes in the sky, and Now You Care, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries, and most recently, So this is the world & here I am in it (NeWest Writers as Critics Series X, 2006). She has received numerous honours and awards including the Gerald Lampert Award and the Canadian Authors Association National Poetry Prize. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University. Her website address is www.dibrandt.ca

CALEB J W BRASSET lives and works in Ottawa.

TERRY ANN CARTER is a poet living in Ottawa.

WEYMAN CHAN lives and works in Calgary. His first book, Before A Blue Sky Moon Frontenac House, 2002) won that year’s Alberta Writer’s Guild Award for best book of poetry. Previous poetry has appeared in Capilano Review, for which he won a National Magazine Award in 2001. Another book of poems, Noise From the Laundry Room, will be released in 2007.

LISA COMEAU is a Halifax based writer and performance artist who has performed at many diverse and crazy venues over the years. Other activities have included: newspaper stuffer, maid, art student, event organizer, nude model and mother. Favourite themes are class, desire and survival.

JENNIFER DALES writes reviews of poetry, non-fiction and art, as well as the occasional poem, and lots of technical manuals. She lives in Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.

CHRISTOPHER DODA is a poet and critic living in Toronto. His first book of poems, Among Ruins, was released by the Mansfield Press, and he is an editor at Exile: the Literary Quarterly. He is at work on a second collection, currently titled Aesthetics Lesson.

RHONDA DOUGLAS is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and currently enrolled in the distance MFA program at UBC. In 2006, she won the Far Horizons Award for Poetry sponsored by The Malahat Review. “Hecuba” is from a book-length manuscript she’s currently completing about Cassandra, the Prophetess of Troy.

TRINY FINLAY is the author of Splitting Off (Nightwood, 2004) and the chapbook Phobic (Gaspereau, 2006). She lives—reluctantly—in Toronto.

MARK FRUTKIN has published eight titles of fiction and poetry including Slow Lightning, Iron Mountain, The Lion of Venice, Invading Tibet, [In the Time of the Angry Queen_], Acts of Light and Atmospheres Apollinaire, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for fiction and the Trillium Award. His work has appeared in the United States, Holland, England, Spain and India. He has written widely on books and the arts for the
Globe & Mail, the Montreal Gazette, Harper’s and the Ottawa Citizen, and is a former editor of Arc. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Faith, and son, Elliot.

HEIDI GARNETT’s first book, Phosphorus, was released this fall by Thistledown Press. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as Event, The New Quarterly, CV2, Carousel. She won the Joyce Dunn Memorial Award 2004 and recently attended the Banff Centre for the Arts.

KATIA GRUBISIC is a writer, editor and translator whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, ellipse, Books in Canada, Front & Centre and The Fiddlehead and in a chapbook with Delirium Press. She is on the editorial board of The New Quarterly, for whom she is editing an upcoming Montréal issue.

SUZANNE HANCOCK’s first book of poetry Another Name for Bridge was published by Mansfield Press in 2005. One of her poems was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2006. She spent the month of May at the Banff Centre for the Arts as a participant in the Writing Studio. This is the first poem in a long sequence concerned with bells.

SEAN HORLOR lives in Vancouver. His first collection of poetry, Made Beautiful by Use, will be available in 2007 through Signature Editions.

CHRIS JENNINGS reviewed Arc’s Don Coles tribute for Books in Canada. He bought his copies of Sometimes All Over, Anniversaries, and The Prinzhorn Collection second-hand; each is inscribed to a notable poet, though he won’t tell you which one.

ERIN KNIGHT completed an MA at UNB and now lives in St. Catharines, Ontario. Poems from her manuscript appear in journals including Event, Grain, and The Malahat Review. Her work is also included in the anthologies Edmonton on Location (NeWest Press 2005) and Talk That Mountain Down(littlefishcart press 2005). Her first book of poetry, The Sweet Fuels, will be published with Goose Lane Editions in 2007.

EVELYN LAU was born in Vancouver in 1971. Her most recent poetry collection is Treble Raincoast); she is also the author of Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, as well as two short story collections, a book of essays, a novel and three other volumes of poetry.

JOHN LOFRANCO teaches English and coaches distance running in Montreal. A chapbook of his poems about running, Aerobic Capacity, will be published by Frog Hollow Press in 2007.

TANIS MacDONALD teaches Canadian literature in the English department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and is the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). Tanis is the winner of the 2003 Bliss Carman Award for Poetry. Her second book of poetry, Fortune, is available from Turnstone Press.

SHARON McCARTNEY’s third collection, The Little House Poems, is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions. littlefishcartpress recently published her chapbook, Switchgrass Stills. The poems in this issue are from a new manuscript tentatively titled Against.

STEVE McORMOND’s first book of poetry Lean Days (Wolsak and Wynn 2004) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. A second collection entitled Primer on the Hereafter is forthcoming in fall 2006. He lives in Toronto. For more information, visit: www.stevemcormond.com

KEL MORIN-PARSONS is managing editor of Arc. She lives in Ottawa.

COLIN MORTON’s most recent poetry collections are Coastlines of the Archipelago (Buschekbooks) and Dance, Misery (Seraphim).

MARIE-JEANNE MUSIOL records the luminous imprints of biological bodies. She regularly adds specimens to her photographic collection of electromagnetized plants and is presently constituting a first energy botany. Her work is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. www.musiol.ca

BARBARA MYERS was born and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia but has lived most of her adult life in Ottawa and Toronto. She is a former editor with Arc and often facilitates poetry workshops. Her work is published in a number of periodicals and anthologies.

SHANE NEILSON is a poet from New Brunswick.ALEXANDRA PASIAN is a freelance writer living with her family in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Arc, CV2, Event, and The Fiddlehead. These poems are part of her MA thesis entitled Every Day.

LYNDA GRACE PHILIPPSEN, a freelance writer, lives in Surrey, B.C. She writes poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews (most recently in Arc Poetry Magazine’s How Poems Work, Kyoto Journal: Perspectives from Asia, Books in Canada, and The Vancouver Sun). Two of her poems appear in Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale Press, 2006).

ALISON PICK is the recent winner of the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. The title section of her book Question & Answer won the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry. Her novel, The Sweet Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005. It has recently been optioned for film by Four Seasons Productions.

MARILYN GEAR PILLING lives in Hamilton. She is the author of two collections of short fiction and two books of poetry, the latest appearing this month: The Life of the Four Stomachs. A third collection will appear in spring, 2007: My Life in Breasts. A manuscript of creative non fiction is almost complete: Nine Days with a Stranger.

PAMELA PORTER’s book of poems, Stones Call Out, was released last spring from Coteau Books. Her verse novel, The Crazy Man, published in 2005, has won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award and the Canadian Library Association 2006 Book of the Year for children. She lives near Sidney, BC.

MICHAEL REYNOLDS lives in Whitehorse with his wife and two children. “Castor Gulo” is from a recently completed manuscript, Migrations. Other poems from Migrations have been published with The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and Grain, and were shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in 2005.

HAROLD RHENISCH is the winner of the 2005 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. His latest book of poetry is Living Will, a translation of Shakespeare’s sonnets into contemporary erotic English. His latest book is Winging Homer: A Palette of Birds, a humorous portrait of birds and people interacting in a wild earth.

BRADY RHOADES writes poetry and short stories. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, Appalachia Review, Red Rock Review, California Quarterly, Windsor Review and other publications. He lives in Southern California and works as an editor for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

A Fringe Reader at the 2006 Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and a participant in the 2005 Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Program, SANDRA RIDLEY’s recent work can be found in the Huntsville Festival of Arts’ anthology, Fringe Festival Poetry. In 2004, she was shortlisted for Lichen’s ‘Tracking A Serial Poet’ competition.

IAN ROY is the author of The Longest Winter and People Leaving. A collection of poems is forthcoming from BuschekBooks in early 2007.

TOMAZ SALAMUN’s most recent books translated into English are The Book for My Brother ( Harcourt, April 2006), Poker (Ugly Duckling Press, 2003) and Blackboards (saturnaliapress, 2004).

JAMES SCOLES has travelled extensively through both the light and dark, finding the gospel just as lovely in each. A former teacher, his stories and poems have been published in Japan, the USA and Australia; and in Canada by echolocation, Collective Consciousness, Carousel and soon, Descant. He lives in Winnipeg.

BREN SIMMERS is a MFA student in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She is the poetry editor at PRISM international.

RICHARD STEVENSON lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta. His most recently published work includes several collections of haiku, senryu, and tanka from Ekstasis Editions and Serengeti Press, a children’s picture book from Bayeux Arts, a jazz poetry chapbook from Laurel Reed, and a narrative/lyric collection, Parrot With Tourette’s, from Black Moss. A memoir, Riding On A Magpie Riff, is forthcoming from Black Moss. A collection of haiku, a Tidings of Magpies, is forthcoming from Spotted Cow Press.

KRISTIN SUMNER was a shortlisted poetry entrant in This Magazine’s 10th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt and has work forthcoming in The River: The Natchez Poetry Anthology. She lives in Winnipeg, where she studies Icelandic language and literature at the University of Manitoba.

JOSHUA TROTTER is currently at work on a short book of short poems; Old Rabbits Die Hard.

RIA VOROS is in the first year of her MFA at the University of British Columbia. She lives in North Vancouver with her partner and their noble hound.

ZACHARIAH WELLS (www.zachariahwells.com) is the author of Unsettled (Insomniac, 2004) and the reviews editor for Canadian Notes & Queries.

SUE WHEELER’s latest collection of poems is Habitat, published by Brick Books in 2005. She lives on a farm on Lasqueti Island, BC.

CLEA YOUNG is a recent graduate of the MFA program at UBC. Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Event, Room of One’s Own, Prairie Fire, sub-Terrain, Other Voices, and is forthcoming in The Journey Prize Stories 18. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

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