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Lori Maleea Acker's work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Geist, Hammer & Tongs: A Smoking Lung Anthology and Ascent Magazine.She lives and writes in Victoria, British Columbia.

Justin Augustine is an artist originally from Dominica who now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1998 and has since participated in group shows such as the provincial touring shows "In his Place" and "Home, The Art of Preston." His work is in the collection of Dalhousie University where he recently had a show of his works called "CulturalMemory." He can be contacted at av128@chebucto.ns.ca.

Vaia Barkas lives in Ontario. She has had articles published in the travel magazine Utah Outdoors. This is her first published piece of fiction.

Stephen Brockwell is the author of Cometology. He lives in Ottawa with his family where he is a business development manager for Autodesk, a design software company.

Brad Buie lives and writes in Victoria, British Columbia.

Mark Callanan is a graduate of Memorial University's Bachelor of Arts program in English Literature. His work has recently appeared or is due to appear in TickleAce, lichen, Event and The Fiddlehead.

Rebecca Campbell is from Cobble Hill, British Columbia.

Ian Colford's work has appeared in such literary journals as The Fiddlehead, Event and Pottersfield Portfolio. His current projects include a third novel as well as a critical study of the American short story writer John Cheever.

Michael Crummey was born in Newfoundland and is presently living in Kingston Ontario. His first book of poems was published in 1996 by Kingston's Quarry Press. Arguments with Gravity went on to win the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. A second collection, Hard Light, was published by Brick Books in 1998. His first published story was a runner up in the 1994 Prism international Short Fiction Contest, and he has published about a dozen pieces of short fiction since, including one which has been selected for The Journey Prize Anthology 10 (McLelland & Stewart, 1998). Flesh & Blood, a collection of stories, appeared with Beach Holme Publishing in 1998.

Luis Alberto de Cuenca is a well established poet in Spain. He won the Premio de la Crítica for La caja de plata (1985), the Premio Nacional de Traducción for Cantar de Valtario (1987), and is Professor of Research at the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. The enclosed translations were originally published by Visor Libros.

Simon Fanning's stories have appeared or will soon be appearing in The Atlantic Online, Prism International, The Fiddlehead, and Blood and Aphorisms. He teaches English at Dawson College in Montreal.

Leo Furey is one of TAR's fiction editors. He has previously published in several literary magazines and is publishing his first novel in 2003. He is currently Executive Director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation. The photo of Michael Crummey in this issue was produced by Chris Miner.

Marlon Graichy is currently working on a translation of Alberto de Cuenca's collected poems Los mundos y los dìas, Poesia 1972-1998. Permission to translate the enclosed poems was given by Visor Libros.

Catherine Greenwood lives in Victoria. Recent work will be appearing in Canadian Literature, Event, and Grain, and her collection "The Pearl King and Other Poems" is forthcoming with Brick Books in 2004.

Kate Hall lives in Montreal and is the co-editor of Delirium Press. Her work has appeared in Arc and is forthcoming from Cyclops Press in the anthology The Cyclops Review.

Dianne M. Hallman lives with her teenage son and two cats in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published in Amethyst Review and Grain.

Bernadette Higgins has had over 120 poems accepted for publication in a variety of magazines across North America and the UK. Some include Ship of Fools, The Antigonish Review, Ambit, Other Poetry and The North.

Ken Howe's first book Household Hints for the End of Time received the John V. Hicks Award and the Anne Szumigalski Award and is on the shortlist for the Gerald Lampert Award. His second collection Cruise Control: A Theogony will appear this fall.

Susan Kernohan's fiction and poetry have appeared in Grain, CV2, Taddle Creek and The New Quarterly. She is currently studying to become a librarian.

Michael Kissinger is a musician and writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia. His writing has appeared in Saturday Night, Monday Magazine, the Mix, and Anonymous Juice.

Ciara La Velle lives in Boston. Her work has been published in the In Posse Review, Ennui Magazine, and the Gen X Compilation, In Our Own Words. Her zine, Miz Babette, was featured at Blue Jean Online. S.F. MacLennan has been living and writing in Toronto, and has published her poems in several literary journals.

David Miller lives in Vancouver. He has or will soon be published in such literary journals as The New Quarterly, Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, ARC, ArtWorld Quarterly and Poetry Motel among others.

Ruth Panofsky is the author of Lifeline (Guernica Editions 2001). She lives in Toronto where she teaches Canadian Literature at Ryerson University.

Mitchell Parry's poetry has appeared in Grain, Event, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Malahat Review. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he teaches Film Studies.

Alison Pick's poetry won the Short Grain Prose Poem Contest in 2001, received "Editor's Choice" in the Arc Poem of the Year Contest and was short-listed for the CBC Canadian Literary Awards and The Fiddlehead Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize. She is working on her first novel.

Suzanne Robertson was born in Perth, Ontario. She currently lives and writes in Toronto.

Sarah J. Roebuck worked as an arts journalist and as a jazz radio host in Windsor, Ontario. She is presently living in Montreal pursuing a PhD degree in Religious Studies at McGill University.

Nicholas Ruddock lives and writes in Guelph, Ontario.

Matt Santateresa has published in numerous magazines and journals. He has written two volumes of poetry (Combustible Light, Broken Jaw Press, and A Beggar's Loom, Mansfield Press) as well as two chapbooks.

Anne Simpson is currently Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick. Her first book of poetry, Light Falls Through You (2000), was followed by her first novel, Canterbury Beach (2001). Her second book of poetry, Loop, will appear early in 2003.

Johanna Skibsrud graduated from the University of Toronto in 2001 and has since been working in the woods of Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama and Maine. She is currently working and travelling through Europe, Asia and New Zealand.

Michael Standaert is a freelance writer based in Brussels, Belgium.

J.J. Steinfeld, fiction writer and playwright, has published a novel and eight short story collections, the most recent being Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Gaspereau Press, 2000).

Royston Tester's work has appeared in numerous literary magazines. His first novel Nancy's Boy and short fiction collection Hands Over the Body are currently doing the publishers' rounds. He lives in Toronto.

John Webb teaches at Langara College in Vancouver and is currently at work on a collection of poems.

Dana Wilde recently returned from Xiamen, China, where he taught on a U.S. Fulbright grant. His writings have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He lives in Maine.

David Winwood's poetry has appeared in many North American and European magazines including, The Antigonish Review, Confrontation, The Fiddlehead, etc. He currently lives and writes in Ireland.