Issue # 130
Contributors To
This Issue
Contributors
Douglas Brown has been published in such journals as Acta
Victoriana, Rubiconand Books In Canada among others. His "Rhapsody"
won second prize in Matrix's End of the World Contest (Matrix
#49). He lives in Montreal and is working on a manuscript of poems.
Esther Cameron lives and writes in Madison, WI.
Degan Davis has traveled for a number of years and is still
moving. His poems and stories have appeared in a number of magazines including
Grain, Descant, The Fiddlehead and The Antigonish Review.
He is working on a travel-memoir of his life in Japan.
James Jay Egan works as an educator and editor in Ho Chi
Minh City, Viet Nam. He was born and raised in the American Midwest.
Kai Fierle-Hedrick is currently taking a Joint Honours
in Art History and English Literature at McGill University. Her poetry
has appeared in Scrivener, Montage, and was featured in the Montage
2001 Poetry Supplement. Most recently, with the artists' collective
Echophilia, she co-produced and curated the photographic/poetic installation
Compositions 1. Kai lives and works in Montreal.
Len Gasparini has published ten books of poetry, including
Halo of Flies (Mosaic Press, 1998). His first collection of short
stories, Blind Spot, was published by Oberon Press in 2000. He
reviews fiction for the Toronto Star.
Susan Glickman is the author of The Picturesque & The
Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape, and of four books of
poetry published by Véhicule Press. These poems are from a new collection,
tentatively titled Where We Live, due out in 2004.
Rachel Goldstein was born in Germany in 1946, the daughter
of two Holocaust survivors. Her poetry has appeared in Lilith Magazine,
The Comstock Review, the Jews of Poland and other journals. At present
she is working on the publication of her first book of poetry.
Marlene Grand Maitre's poems have appeared in the anthologies
Breaking the Surface (Sono Nis, 2000) and Mocambo Nights
(Ekstasis Editions, 2001), and in Grain. She lives in Victoria,
BC.
Suzanne Hancock currently lives in Guelph, ON. She has
been published most recently in Hayden's Ferry Review, The Fiddlehead,
The New Quarterly, and Carousel. She won honorable mention
in Prairie Fire's poetry contest in 2002 and Broken Jaw Press published
a chapbook of her work, What Morning Illuminates, in 1999. She
is the poetry editor for the Toronto-based journal Paperplates.
Paul Hannon lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally from
central New York State, he studied fine arts at the State University of
New York at Oswego and at Pratt Graphics. Paul's decision to move to Nova
Scotia in 1989 coincided with his renewed interest in drawing and painting.
He has made a strong connection to the Maritimes through his painting
and drawing. He is known for his unique interpretation of the Maritime
landscape. To view more of Paul's artwork, contact him at paulhannon@hfx.eastlink.ca.
Kevin Irie won first prize in the 2000 poetry competition
in Rice Paper and has recently appeared in the Ontario Review,
Windsor Review, Dalhousie Review and Grain. He has two poetry
books, Burning The Dead (Wolsak & Wynn, 1992) and The Colour
of Eden (Owl's Head Press, 1996), the latter a finalist for the 1997
City of Toronto Book Award. He lives in Toronto.
Svetlana Ishchenko immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine
in 2001. She has had two books of poetry published in the Ukraine, Chorales
of Heaven and Earth (Vir Ukrainian Publishing House, Kiev, 1995) and
H# (Moshlivosti of Kimmera Publishers, Nikolaev, 1998). Some of
her poems are included in a recent anthology of young Ukrainian poets,
Beginnings (Smoloskip Publishers, Kiev, 2000). The poems here are
from work she has produced in Canada in Ukrainian and translated into
English.
Consuelo Jackman has been published in several Canadian
journals, including The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Blood
& Aphorisms and Literary Review of Canada. She published Reinvented
Romantic which came out in June 2001 as part of the Bennington
Chapbook Series.
W.J. Keith lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario. He has
been previously published in The Antigonish Review.
Shawna Lemay's first book All the God-Sized Fruit
won the Stephan G. Stephansson Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
Her most recent book is Against Paradise (McClelland & Stewart,
2001). She has recently completed a book to be titled Still.
Marilyn Lerch lives and writes in Sackville, New Brunswick,
where she continues her long-time involvement in peace and justice struggles.
Her poetry has appeared in a pride of Canadian and U.S. journals. Lambs
& Llamas, Ewes & Me, a handset, illustrated cycle of poems on shepherding
was published by Springbank Press, Alberta (2001).
Linda Little lives and writes in River John, NS.
Dorothy Mahoney teaches at Essex High School and has published
two books of poetry, Through Painted Skies (Black Moss Press, 1997)
and Returning to the Point (Black Moss Press, 2001). A recent trip
to China is the basis of a new manuscript.
Gary Margolis is director of counseling at Middlebury College
in Vermont. His new book of poems, Fire in the Orchard, has recently
been published by Autumn House Press (Pittsburgh) and is being nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. For the past thirty years he has visited his cabin
on Shingle Lake in New Elm, Nova Scotia.
Blaise Moritz lives in the east end of Toronto. He is the
author of a chapbook published by Junction Books and his work has appeared
most recently in the fifth anniversary issue of The Queen Street Quarterly.
A. Mary Murphy is an Alberta poet currently at work on
her doctoral dissertation. Her poems appear in a variety of journals,
including Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Canadian Literature,
Wascana Review, and Other Voices.
Alison Pick lives and writes in Kitchener, Ontario.
Lisa Potvin lives in Nanaimo, B.C., where she teaches at
Malaspina University-College. Her book White Lies (for my mother)
(NeWest 1992) won the Edna Staebler Creative Nonfiction Award, and her
book of short fiction Flights of Gravity will be published by Raincoast
in 2002.
John Reibetanz lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario.
Page Richards is an Assistant Professor at The University
of Hong Kong.
Matt Robinson lives in Fredericton, NB. He has won several
prizes, including the Petra Kenney and Bailey Prizes. His first collection
of poetry A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac Press, 2000),
was short-listed for both The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and The ReLit
Award for Poetry in 2001. His work has been featured on both radio and
television, in anthologies, and in Canadian, American, British, and Australian
journals.
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.
Neil Smith is a translator and writer from Montreal. Recently,
he has worked on a museum exhibit on the wacky mating rituals of animals
and insects. His short fiction has appeared in Event, Blood and Aphorisms,
and Headlight. One story was just nominated for the Journey Prize.
Look for it in the 14th Journey Prize Anthology coming out in October
of 2002.
Mark Truscott has had poems published in previous issues
of The Antigonish Review as well as in The Malahat Review, The
Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada, and THIS Magazine.
He lives in Toronto.
Carolyne Van Der Meer is a doctoral student in literature
at the Université de Montréal, where her dissertation focuses on issues
of Canadian canon formation. She also writes book reviews on a regular
basis and has contributed to Quill and Quire, Books in Canada, The
Mystery Review, Canadian Literature and Montreal Review of Books,
among others.
Andy Weaver's poetry has appeared in various journals,
most recently Westerly (Australia), The Fiddlehead, and
Event, and will appear in the anthology Why I Sing the Blues
(Smoking Lung Press) and the greenboathouse broadside series. He is also
a founder and coordinating editor of The Olive, Edmonton's monthly poetry
reading series. 
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