Issue # 127
Contributors To
This Issue
Contributors
Mark C. Aldrich teaches Spanish at Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His scholarly work focuses on contemporary Spanish
poetry and prose. In addition to his critical studies, he has published
translations into Spanish of selected poems of Charles Simic and Phillis
Levin. He is currently preparing translations of work by poets Juan Manuel
Villalba and Juvenal Soto. 
Crystal Bacon's work has appeared in a variety of journals
and magazines, including the Ontario Review, Tampa Review, Massachusetts
Review, and The Antigonish Review, as well as in the anthology,
Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, published by Milkweed
Editions.
Rebecca Wood Barrett, BAA honours (Film Studies), is an
independent filmmaker whose short films have been screened on television
and in festivals worldwide. Her screen adaptation of "crush,"
filmed in and around the wineries of Oliver, BC, recently played at the
Sea to Sky Film Festival in Squamish, BC and the 42nd Brno16 in the Czech
Republic.
Eric Barstad's poems have been published, or are forthcoming
in blue buffalo, Grain, The Harpweaver, Litwit, Wascana Review,
and Zygote. He recently completed an M.A. in English & Creative
Writing from the University of New Brunswick.
Brad Buchanan has published poetry in Canadian journals
such as Grain, The Windsor Review and Scrivener as well
as a number of American journals.
Heather Cadsby lives in Toronto. She is the author of three
books of poetry. The most recent book, A Tantrum of Synonyms (Wolsak
and Wynn Publishers), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award in 1998.
Karin Cope, having grown up in the city, in the interior
of the continent, far from the sea, now lives in rural Nova Scotia, on
the Eastern Shore. A free-lance writer and editor, she is at work on a
collection of her poetry, Noise of a Disappearing Train, and a
novel about a girl who works miracles and flies. She is also writing,
with Marike Finlay-de Monchy, a collaborative account of their first sailing
voyage to Nova Scotia, Logging Her Way East.
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) spent much of her brief
life travelling and writing in North Africa. An arabized European dressing
as an Arab male, the daughter of a Russian anarchist, Eberhardt was killed
in a flash flood at Ain-Sefra, near the Algerian-Moroccan border, in 1904.
She was twenty-seven years old.
Rafael Pérez Estrada (Málaga, Spain, 1934-2000) is the
author of more than forty published volumes of prose and poetry. His writing
is characterized by formal and stylistic innovation that transgresses
traditional notions of genre. From aphorism to full length novel, Pérez
Estrada's work consistently creates worlds of astonishing imagination
and creativity. His first work, Valle de los galanes, was published
in 1968. His poetry collections Conspiraciones y conjuras (1986)
and El bestiario de Livermoore (1988) were both finalists for Spain's
Premio Nacional de Literatura. His work has appeared in numerous
anthologies, both in Spain and around the world. He received a law degree
from the University of Granada and practiced law in his native Málaga.
Yakov Gordin was born in St. Petersburg in 1935. To the
residents of that city today he is best known as the editor of "The
Star" (Zvezda), one of Russia's two most popular and prestigious
literary journals. He also appears on television and radio regularly as
a political commentator. Here, though, is an example of his parallel career,
that of a novelist, playwright and poet. His poetic work began at the
same time as his acquaintances, Mikhail Yeryomin and Yevgeny Rein and
he is very much a member of what can be already assessed with assurance
and gratitude by modern readers as the Leningrad School. These writers
began to work during the Thaw that followed Stalin's death in the late
1950s. Raised on the tough, adventurous tales of Soviet bravado and the
equally unrelenting works of Hemingway and Faulkner, Gordin and other
writers began through the lens of materialism to seek a different, perhaps
higher value in the world. They did so with an intense investigation of
the objects that make up that world, hence the severity of the story offered
here.
Keith Heller has been published in numerous magazines and
journals. In the mid-Eighties, he published a trilogy of historical crime
books in London and New York. His latest novel, Snow on the Moon,
a Holocaust story set in Spain in 1945, was brought out by Headline of
London in 1996.
Susan L. Helwig's work has been published in various literary
magazines and anthologies, most recently Zygote, Sub Terrain and
Descant. Her first collection, Catch the Sweet, will be
published in the fall of 2001 by Seraphim Editions.
Carol Kennedy is a photographic artist living and working
in Cape Breton. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, and Europe and
is in the collections of: The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nova Scotia
Art Band, the Art Galleries of Ontario, Nova Scotia and U.C.C.B. and many
private collections. She won the ECMA in 2001 for Best Photographer and
in 1998, for Best Graphic Designer. You can see her work at her summer
gallery "Iron Art and Photographs" in Tarbot on the Cabot Trail.
Monica Kidd lives and writes in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Anna King has a BA in history from the University of Victoria.
She now lives in Vancouver and studies law at the University of British
Columbia.
Susanne Kort has had prose, poetry and translations published
in numerous Canadian, US and European journals.
Ross Leckie lives and teaches in Fredericton, NB. He is
an editor for The Fiddlehead.
Laura Lush lives and teaches in Toronto. She is currently
working on a third poetry manuscript entitled The First Day of Winter.
David MacFadyen was educated at the University of London
and UCLA. He is head of the Dept. of Russian Studies at Dalhousie where
he has taught since 1995. His book Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque
was published by McGill-Queens.
Mustapha Marrouchi is the author of Signifying with
a Vengeance (SUNY Press.) Presence of Mind is due next year.
He lives between Tunis and Toronto.
Donald Mason has worked as an editor and translator. He
has recently completed work on Daughters of the Casbah: The Stories
of Isabelle Eberhardt, and is currently teaching at Chonnam National
University in Korea.
Rob McLennan is an Ottawa poet, etc. His 6th book of poetry,
harvest: a book of signifiers is due this fall with Talonbooks,
as is You & Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Vehicule Press),
co-edited with Andy Brown, and a chapbook, some breaths (Staccato,
Winnipeg).
Marilyn Gear Pilling is a poet and fiction writer who lives
in Hamilton, ON. Her second collection of fiction, The Roseate Spoonbill
Of Happiness, will be published in Spring 2002.
Barbara Rendall is a Nova Scotia writer now living in Macau,
China. Her poetry has appeared in Grain, Fiddlehead, Prism, The New
Quarterly, and Queen's Quarterly, and she has published short
fiction in Chatelaine and Redbook. While living in Northside
East Bay, Cape Breton Island, she wrote a weekly newspaper column for
the Cape Breton Post.
Caroline Shepard's stories have appeared in Queen's
Quarterly, Grain, Prairie Fire and Room of One's Own. She is
hoping to publish her short fiction as a collection, and has begun work
on a second novel.
John Shepley lives and writes in New York, NY. He has published
numerous stories, essays, book reviews and translations. Anthologies include,
The Best American Short Stories of 1956; The Quixote Anthology
(1961); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 8th and 16th
Series (1959, 1967) and The Best American Essays 1998 (cited under
"Notable Essays").
Troy Tymofichuk lives nearby Seoul, Korea. His poems have
been published with a number of Canadian magazines, the latest with Grain.
Like the Sea Over the Telephone is the working title of his first
book due out for publication next year.
Margo Wheaton has had essays and reviews published in The
Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Coast Magazine.
Her poetry has appeared recently in Event, Landmarks and Windsor
Review and is upcoming in Kaleidoscope.
Beatriz Zeller is a Toronto-based writer and translator.
She has published a chapbook of poems: The Walking Suitcase and Other
Poems and is currently working on a book-length collection of poetry
tentatively entitled The Temperamental Librarian.
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