Jessica Bell makes paintings, patchworks and photographs. Represented by the
Isabella Egan Gallery, she has shown her work in various venues and exhibitions,
including Vancouver’s Chapel Arts gallery, the Eastside Culture Crawl, and the
Canadian Federation of Artists’ “Painting on the Edge.” Jessica was born in Montreal,
and lives in Vancouver.
E. Blagrave’s poems have appeared in recent years in The New Quarterly and The
Fiddlehead. She lives in Victoria.
Emily Carr is writing a book of poetry, to loot to hew & Eden, which explores happiness
from eco-critical and feminist perspectives. “the story will fix you it is there
outside your &,” a lyric sequence from this manuscript, will be published in Toadlily’s
Quartet series this fall. Emily also has chapbooks forthcoming from Furniture Press
and above/ground press. Her critical work appears in HOW2 and Jacket.
Margaret Christakos is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Toronto. Her most
recent poetry collection is What Stirs, from Coach House Books in 2008.
Allan Cooper is the author of 12 books of poetry, most recently The Alma Elegies
(Gaspereau Press, 2007). He is the former editor of the poetry magazine Germination
and the poetry publishing house Owl’s Head Press. He has twice won the Alfred G.
Bailey Award. The ghazals in this issue are from a book-in-progress titled Falling
Down, Getting Up Again. He lives in Alma, New Brunswick.
Tadeusz Dąbrowski (b. 1979) is editor of the literary bimonthly Topos and a regular
contributor to the Kultura Channel on Polish State Television. Winner of the Hubert
Burda Prize (2008) and the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006), his work
has been translated into English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Bulgarian,
Latvian, Slovenian, and Czech. He has written four poetry collections: Wypieki (1999),
e-mail (2000), mazurek (2002), and Te Deum (2005, 2008). He lives in Gda´nsk (Poland).
Jennifer Dales is an Ottawa-based teacher and writer whose reviews of art, poetry
and nonfiction have appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Arc and
The Danforth Review. Her poetry has appeared in several journals, including Prairie
Fire. Her interest in Aboriginal art, literature and politics spans 20 years.
Christopher Doda is a poet, editor and critic living in Toronto. He is the author of
two poetry collections, Among Ruins and Aesthetics Lesson, both from Mansfield
Press. He is an editor with Exile: The Literary Quarterly and Exile Editions, and serves
as book review editor for Studio, an online poetry journal.
Devin Elizabeth takes everlasting delight in all moments related to breakfast—a small
cup with his saucer partner, a trio of shiny sausages. She spends most of her hours
reading books, but she does make time for playing the tambourine.
Abou Farman’s writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines and journals in
Canada, the United States and Egypt. Recent publications include the essay “Clerks of
the Passage” in The Believer (2008).
Susan Glickman is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Running in
Prospect Cemetery: New & Selected Poems, a novel, The Violin Lover, a kids’ book,
Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch, and a literary history, The Picturesque & The
Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape.
Janna Graham’s radio docu-drama on the poet John Thompson was presented at the
International Features Conference in Copenhagen in 2007. She’s a journalist, sound
artist and poetry lover. She lives somewhere between Montreal and Nova Scotia.
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor and translator whose work has appeared in various
Canadian and international publications. Her first collection of poems, What if red
ran out, was published in 2008.
Natasha Henderson was born in 1974 in Comox, BC. After graduating from the Emily
Carr Institute with a BFA in Painting in 1998, she embarked upon a series of solo and
group exhibitions throughout Western Canada. She re-located to Montreal in 2007,
where she has since taken up snowshoeing, jogging, and poutine… and now considers
herself as a cartoonist in addition to a painter. See her work at natashahenderson.com.
Amanda Jernigan is a poet, playwright, essayist and editor. Her work has been
published and performed in Canada, the U.S., and Germany, and is represented in
the online archive of the Poetry Foundation. She is currently editing a selection of
Richard Outram’s poems for publication by Porcupine’s Quill.
Troy Jollimore won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his first book of
poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House, 2006). His reviews and
articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Book Review, and
elsewhere. A chapbook of new poems, The Solipsist, was published in 2008.
Michael Lista has published most recently in The Malahat Review, Canadian
Literature, and the art magazine Border Crossings. His poems appear in the inaugural
Best of Canadian Poetry in English and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. His debut collection, Bloom, is forthcoming from The House of Anansi. He lives
in Montreal’s Mile End.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is an editor and translator. Her most recently published translation
from Polish is Castorp, a novel by Paweł Huelle (Serpent’s Tail, 2007), which
has been longlisted for the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Award. Her translations
of Polish poetry have appeared in periodicals including The Edinburgh Review.
Barbara Myers recently edited Back to the Daffodils, a collection of poetry by the
late Maureen Glaude, as well as the poetry anthology Oblique Strokes, featuring
Ottawa poets and writers. Her new book, Slide, will be published in the fall.
Shane Neilson published Exterminate My Heart with Frog Hollow Press in 2008. He
will publish Meniscus with Biblioasis this year.
Ruth Roach Pierson, professor emerita of the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education/ University of Toronto, is the author of two books of poems, both published
by BuschekBooks of Ottawa: Where No Window Was (2002) and Aide-Mémoire
(2007), which was named a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award
for Poetry.
Harold Rhenisch has won a 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the George Ryga
Prize, and has twice won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. He is co-editor of
Rock Salt: 108 BC Poets and the author of Return to Open Water: Poems Selected and
New 1978-2007. He writes and edits poetry from Northern Vancouver Island.
Peter Richardson’s most recent book is Sympathy For the Couriers. He lives in Gatineau.
Stuart Ross is a poet, fiction writer and writing instructor. His most recent books are
I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press), Dead Cars in Managua (DC Books) and Buying
Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books). He lives in Toronto, but can be found at
hunkamooga.com.
Peter Sanger edited John Thompson; Collected Poems and Translations (1995) and
wrote SeaRun: Notes on John Thompson’s Stilt Jack (1986). He has published seven
collections of poetry, the most recent being Aiken Drum (2006) and several collections
of essays. His Through Darkling Air: the Poetry of Richard Outram will be
published by Gaspereau Press in autumn, 2009.
Carmine Starnino’s new book of poems is This Way Out (Gaspereau, 2009). An
associate editor at Maisonneuve magazine, he lives in Montreal.
Harry Thurston is the author of 20 books of poetry and non-fiction. A Ship Portrait,
A Novella-in-Verse (Gaspereau Press) was adapted for the stage last summer by The
Ship’s Company Theatre of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. His Animals of My Own Kind:
New & Selected Poems will appear from Vehicule Press in fall, 2009.
Yi-Mei Tsiang has been published in various literary journals such as The New
Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Other Voices, and The Antigonish Review. She is
currently completing her MFA through UBC’s optional residency program.
Paul Tyler’s poems recently appeared in Grain, Prism International, The Fiddlehead
and The Minnesota Review. He won first place in the Being at Work Poetry Challenge
in 2006. He works as a library reference assistant Ottawa, and was an associate editor
with Arc from 2004–2008.
Andrew Vaisius is a writer and daycare director in Southern Manitoba.
Zachariah Wells (www.zachwell.com) is reviews editor for Canadian Notes & Queries.
His next book is Track & Trace (Biblioasis, fall 2009). He lives in Halifax.
Rob Winger, Arc’s poetry editor, tries and fails to write decent ghazals and other
things in Ottawa, where he lives with his family. His first book, Muybridge’s Horse,
lost some of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes, including the 2007 Governor
General’s Award for Poetry.

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