LINDA BESNER’s poetry and reviews have been published or are upcoming in Fiddlehead, Grain, Books in Canada, Prairie Fire and the Dalhousie Review. She’s based in Montreal where she acts as the reviews editor for The Dominion.

YVONNE BLOMER’s first book of poetry, a broken mirror, fallen leaf, was published in 2006. She has been a finalist in the CBC Literary Awards and in the Malahat Long Poem Prize.

MICHAEL BLOUIN has been published in literary magazines across Canada, including Arc, Descant, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain and Event. He has been the recipient of the Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry. His collection I’m not going to lie to you was released by Pedlar Press in 2007. The poems in this issue are from a book-length work about Alden Nowlan and Johnny Cash.

APRIL BULMER has published eight volumes of poetry. The most recent is Black Blooms. April holds graduate degrees in creative writing and theology. She has won many awards, including first prize in the Canadian Authors Association Saving Bannister Contest. She lives in Cambridge, Ontario.

EMILY CARR is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Calgary, where she studies poetics, creative writing pedagogy, contemporary women’s experimental writing, and performance studies. Emily has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri and the University of North Carolina. She has published or has poems forthcoming in Third Coast, The Exquisite Corpse, Isotope, CV2, The Capilano Review, and Feminist Studies.

MARLENE COOKSHAW is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Lunar Drift (2005) and Shameless (2002) from Brick Books. She lives on Pender Island, BC.

DEGAN DAVIS’ poetry and non-fiction have appeared in a number of journals including Grain, Descant and The New Quarterly. He recently won the Percy Janes First Novel Award for his unpublished manuscript, The Forgetting Room. Degan is currently working as a counsellor in Toronto at The Michener Institute.

MICHAEL DeBEYER is the author of two collections of poetry, Change in a Razorbacked Season and Rural Night Catalogue, both published by Gaspereau Press. He currently works as a press operator in Nova Scotia.

JERAMY DODDS grew up in Orono, Ontario. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for poetry. He lives in Toronto.

RHONDA DOUGLAS lives in Ottawa. Her work has been published in literary journals across Canada and overseas. In 2006, she won the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry and Arc’s Diana Brebner Award. Rhonda is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and is a student in the Optional-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC.

SUSAN ELMSLIE’s first collection of poetry, I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick, 2006) won the A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and a ReLit Award. Her poems have also appeared in the prize-winning chapbook, When Your Body Takes to Trembling (Cranberry Tree, 1996). Susan teaches at Dawson College in Montreal. www.susanelmslie.org

AMY EVANS just moved from St. John’s, Newfoundland to L’Anse au Loup, Labrador where she is working as a teacher. Most of her hobbies have to do with food. She likes to cook, garden and gather wild foods. Her artwork and writing are often inspired by her culinary acts.

ABOU FARMAN is, at times, a writer. His writing has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals in Canada, the United States and Egypt.

LORRI NEILSEN GLENN is an ethnographer, essayist, and author, and editor of eight books, including Combustion (Brick Books, 2007). She is currently writing a book on grief and loss, and researching place in contemporary women’s poetry. Neilsen Glenn is the Halifax Poet Laureate for 2005-2009.

KATIA GRUBISIC is a writer, editor and translator whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Grain, The Nashwaak Review, The Fiddlehead, Books in Canada and several other publications. She its on the editorial board of The New Quarterly.

JAMELLA HAGEN grew up in Hazelton, BC and now lives in Vancouver, where she is completing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at UBC. She is an executive editor of PRISM international and her work has appeared in Grain, dANDelion, The Antigonish Review, and CV2.

AURIAN HALLER is a poet, musician and academic who has published poetry, reviews and articles in journals and anthologies in Ireland, Australia, the United States and Canada. His book, A Dream of Sulphur, was released in 2000 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Aurian has been writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Art Gallery and was co-winner of the The Malahat Review 2007 Long Poem Prize.

JEFFREY HSU was born and educated in Ottawa. He currently studies creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

CHRIS JENNINGS writes about writing for a number of magazines and journals. He generally respects the rules of conventional spelling and the difference between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Chris lives in Ottawa.

AMANDA JERNIGAN is a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries and The New Quarterly. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Parnassus, and The Antigonish Review.

TIM LILBURN’s most recent book is Kill-site. A new essay collection, Going Home, is forthcoming from House of Anansi in the near future.

LISA MARTIN-DeMOOR lives in Edmonton, where she teaches literature and writing at Concordia University College. Her first collection of poetry, One crow sorrow, is forthcoming with Brindle & Glass in Spring 2008.

SHANE NEILSON is a poet from New Brunswick.

PETER NORMAN’s poetry has appeared in Descant, Matrix, Prairie Fire, subTerrain, filling Station, Prism International, The Malahat Review and elsewhere, and will appear in Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, forthcoming from Biblioasis. He lives in Calgary with his wife, Melanie Little, and their cat, Catso.

ERIN NOTEBOOM is a poet whose most recent book is Seal Up the Thunder (Wolsak and Wynn, 2005). Her poetry has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines.

LYNDA GRACE PHILIPPSEN lives in Surrey, BC. She writes poetry, fiction, essays and reviews. Her poems appear in Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale, 2006).

E. ALEX PIERCE lives in Nova Scotia. Her work has been anthologized in Words out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada, broadcast on CBC Radio, and published in The Fiddlehead, Arc, The New Quarterly, and Contemporary Verse 2. She teaches playwriting and poetry at Cape Breton University. New work is forthcoming in an anthology by littlefishcart press.

ALESSANDRO PORCO’s collection, The Jill Kelly Poems, was published in 2005 by ECW Press. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

HAROLD RHENISCH lives now in Campbell River, BC. His latest book of poetry is Living Will, a translation of Shakespeare’s sonnets into contemporary erotic English.

LM ROCHEFORT is an Ottawa-based poet. Her work has appeared in the Wellington Street Poets’ Oblique Strokes (2007), A Closer Look (2004); the Pachyderm Poets’ Heard Instinct (2005); Cycle 7 (2003), and Sprouts: The Trillium Anthology, (2003). She has been short-listed for the 2007 String Theory Anthology (Scriblerus Press, New York). A social animal, she is still dangerous when cornered.

JASON ROTSTEIN is deputy editor of the Jewish Quarterly. He is a writer and critic of some small merit.

JAY RUZESKY’s poetry books include Painting the Yellow House Blue and Blue Himalayan Poppies. He lives on Vancouver Island and has recently completed a novel called The Wolsenburg Clock.

GUY SIMSER’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada, USA, Japan, England and Australia, such as Patrick White’s Anthos (1989), Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Heart, Putnam & Sons (USA); Journal to the Interior: An Anthology of American Haibun; Charles Tuttle (USA); Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, MET Press, (USA); Four Seasons Anthology of Haiku, Ko Poetry Association. (Japan); Wind Five-Folded: An Anthology of English Language Tanka, AHA Books (USA); and Countless Leaves, Inkling Press (Edmonton). He lives in Ottawa.

SUE SINCLAIR’s latest collection of poems, Surrender, will be published by Brick Books in 2008. Sue is currently studying philosophy at the University of Toronto.

CARMINE STARNINO has published three volumes of poetry, most recently With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press, 2004). A new book of poems, This Way Out, is forthcoming in 2008. He lives in Montreal.

MATTHEW TIERNEY’s first collection, Full Speed through the Morning Dark, came out with Wolsak & Wynn in 2004. The book is based on his travels around Asia and the UK, including a journey on the Trans-Mongolian Express. His second manuscript won the 2006 K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. His poems have appeared recently in THIS Magazine and Maisonneuve, and Taddle Creek.

GERALD VAANDERING is a visual artist living in London, Ontario. The works of Gerald Vaandering fundamentally discuss culture as it is driven by economics. Of course, there are tertiary subtexts with regard to a new modernism and the desire to locate the individual in the crowd. Vaandering is shown and collected in the United Kingdom, Europe, U.S.A, and Canada.

ZACHARIAH WELLS is the author of Unsettled (Insomniac Press) and the reviews editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Vancouver, where he works for VIA Rail onboard the train. Visit his website: zachariahwells.com.

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