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Contributors

Ed Balsom teaches English in the College-University Transfer Program at the College of the North Atlantic in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. He is interested in issues of regionalism, identity politics, and voice in contemporary Atlantic-Canadian fiction.

Christopher Banks holds a Masters degree in creative writing from Concordia University. He lives and writes in Waterloo, Ontario.

Brian Bartlett of Halifax received first prize for poetry in the Petra Kenney Awards this past spring in London, England. His non-fiction prose appears this year in Brick, and in anthologies about Elizabeth Bishop and P.K. Page. His newest poetry collection The Afterlife of Trees, is due out from McGill-Queen's in the spring of 2002.

Kimmy Beach's first book of poetry, Nice Day for Murder: poems for James Cagney was released this spring by Turnstone Press. Her work is forthcoming in Grain and Lateral Moves (U.K.). Kimmy writes from Red Deer, AB where she lives with her husband, Stu. This is her first appearance in TAR.

Jennifer Bronson is a 4th year Honors student at the University of Toronto majoring in English and Women's Studies. Her work has appeared in the Hart House Review, The UC Review as well as in other campus publications. She has recently launched her first chapbook, other landscapes, published by Junction Books.

Esther Cameron has previously published essays in The Antigonish Review. She edits a poetry magazine, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, and is starting an internet forum, pointandcircumference.org. Her blank verse epic on the ecological crisis, The Consciousness of Earth, is currently being published in installments by Bellowing Ark.

Joanne Chilton is from Atlantic Canada - the home of lighthouses, talented artists and artisans, and the finest in Celtic music. Joanne's work is direct and spontaneous with a style that has a mix of Zen quality and contemporary feel. Her work often portrays how opposites complement and reflect inner realities: symbolic, unexplainable art formed by human hands and elements of nature often found alone or in juxtaposition. Poetry and prose often accompany exhibited works. Joanne's work has been shown in galleries in Atlantic Canada, the US and Ireland. http://www.mindfulcreations.com

Su Croll's first book, Worlda Mirth (Kalamalka Press), was short-listed for a Gerald Lampert Award. The poem "pulling pleasure" is from a manuscript in progress tentatively titled A Translation of Flesh.

Wilfred Cude is the author of A Due Sense of Differences, The Ph.D. Trap, and The Ph.D. Trap Revisited. His writing has appeared frequently in The Antigonish Review and other journals. He lives in West Bay, NS.

William Virgil Davis won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award for One Way to Reconstruct the Scene. His other books of poetry are The Dark Hours and Winter Light. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.

Stewart Donovan teaches Literature and Film at St. Thomas University where he also edits The Nashwaak Review.

Leo C. Ferrari is the first Professor Emeritus of Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, NB.

Marike Finlay-de Monchy lives and writes in Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia.

Robert Gibbs is a retired member of the University of New Brunswick English Department.

Judy Halebsky writes about growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work in TAR is part of a collection she is writing with the support of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Other poems from this collection have been published in Grain and The New Delta Review.

Andrew Hewitt grew up in Canada and now lives in England with his wife and two children. His short fiction has appeared in PRISM International and other literary magazines.

Clare Higgins, who lives in New York, is the author of The Untold Want, a story of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. She has just completed a children's book and a collection of poems, and is currently at work on two musicals and two novels.

Carol Hobbs is a writer from Newfoundland and a graduate student currently living in Massachusetts. She has published poetry and fiction in various magazines and anthologies. Her fiction has been heard on CBC Radio.

Matthew Holmes can't really decide where he's from, but presently lives, works and writes in Ottawa. In February 2001 he began publishing the quarterly zine, Modomnoc.

Cornelia Hoogland publishes poetry, plays, fiction, and tells stories. Her work has aired on CBC Radio. Her poetry books include: The Wire-Thin Bride (Turnstone, 1990), Marrying the Animals (Brick Books, 1995), and You are Home (Black Moss Press, 2001).

Bill Howell, who was born in England and grew up in Halifax, has been the long time Executive Producer of The Mystery Project, CBC Radio Drama, Toronto. He has or will have poetry published in TAR, Queen's Quarterly, Queen Street Quarterly and Descant.

Consuelo Jackman is a graduate of The Bennington College MFA Program in Writing in Vermont. Consuelo has been published in several Canadian journals, including The Malahat Review, Nashwaak Review and Blood and Aphorisms.

Amanda Hathaway Jernigan lives and writes in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Matilka Krow lives and writes on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.

Leanne Lieberman is a writer and teacher living in Toronto. Her work has previously been published in Fireweed, Pottersfield Portfolio and other Canadian journals. "Rie's Story" is an excerpt from her novel Tsuyu/The Plums Rains, which was a finalist for the 2001 Chapter's Robertson Davies Prize.

Marcus McCann is a student at the University of Ottawa.

Stephanie Maricevic is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She is working on a book of poetry based on her travels along the Dalmatian Coast.

Joanne Merriam's work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Quarry, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Antigonish Review. In the wake of a three-month trek across Canada, she is hard at work completing her first poetry collection.

Judith Maclean Miller lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario, where she teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing for Renison College, at the University of Waterloo. She enjoys the essay form, which she thinks of as close to poetry.

James Moran lives and writes in Ottawa, Ontario.

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories (Empyreal Press/The Independent Press, Montreal) and two collections of comics erotica illustrated by Justin Norman, Attractive Forces and the forthcoming Stray Moonbeams (NBM Publishing, New York). His work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Calabash, Caribbean Travel & Life, The Comics Journal, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications. He recently completed his first novel, Squirrels.

E. Russell Smith writes fiction and poetry in both Ottawa and Halifax, Canada. His latest poetry collection is Why We Stand Facing South (Moonstone, 1998). A juvenile/historical novel is forthcoming, about timber rafting in Upper Canada in 1810.

Wayne Tompkins is a teacher of English and Writing at Upper Canada College, in Toronto. He has published poems in such magazines and journals as Poetry Canada Review, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, Arc, The Pottersfield Portfolio and The Wild East.

Simon Thompson teaches English at Northwest Community College in Terrace, BC. He is a proponent of George Stanley's Emerging Theory of Poetics, Aboutism, and can be heard reciting that movement's current mantra, "I am a whom, not a what." His work has been published in Event, Nexus, Textual Studies in Canada, and It's Still Winger, among other journals.

Ryan G. Van Cleave is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. His work has appeared in recent issues of Arts & Letters, Quarterly West, and Ploughshares among other journals. His most recent books are Say Hello (Pecan Grove Press, 2001) and the anthology American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001).

Derek Webster did an MFA in poetry (1998) at Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Agni, Pleiades, La Petite Zine and Nerve (on-line). He also worked for two years as assistant editor to William Gass on Literary St. Louis: A Guide and as poetry editor at Boulevard magazine.

Robert Weir lives and works in Victoria, BC. He gives frequent readings and performs original acoustic music. His book of poetry titled Rendering Plant Letters is awaiting publication.