Issue
# 132
Contributors To
This Issue
Contributors
Joan Alexander lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared
in Grain, Event and Prairie Fire.
Odette Alonso was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1964. She
has published five books of poetry, most recently Linternas (1998)
and Insomnios en la noche del espejo (2000). She is a member of
the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba and the Unión
de Mujeres Escritoras de Las Antillas. She lives in Mexico City. 
Oana Avasilichioaei lives in Montreal where she is an editor,
teacher and translator. The poems included here are from the manuscript
Abandon. Her work has been published in magazines such as Prism
International, Slingshot, Matrix, and will also appear in The Cyclops
Review, an anthology of established and emerging writers.
Jacqueline Baker lives in Edmonton with her husband and
daughter. She is currently completing a collection of short fiction ,
Sand Hills Stories, and beginning work on a novel.
Geoff Butler is a visual artist, writer and book illustrator
who lives in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia. His paintings are from his
series Art of War, Angel Looks and more recently Canuckiana.
Our cover image is from his book featuring his exhibition Art
of War.
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.
He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Antony Christie teaches college at Barrow-in-Furness in
England. His work has appeared in magazines in Britain, Ireland and Canada,
most recently in Fiddlehead, Grain, Smiths Knoll and The Antigonish
Review, and in two chapbooks from Tidefall Press.
Ian Colford is working on a book-length study of John Cheever's
fiction, from which the present essay is excerpted. His stories have been
published in a number of Canadian literary journal, including The Antigonish
Review, The Fiddlehead, and Event. His novel The Confessions
of Joseph Blanchard was awarded the 2001 H.R. (Bill) Percy Prize by
the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
John Donlan is a poetry editor with Brick Books and a
reference librarian at the Vancouver Public Library. His collections of
poetry are Domestic Economy (Brick Books, 1990, reprinted 1997),
Baysville (Anansi, 1993) and Green Man (Ronsdale, 1999).
The poems printed here are from a work in progress, Spirit Engine.
John Fell is a poet and reviewer who has appeared in both
capacities in The Antigonish Review. He teaches English composition
and study skills courses at Lakehead University.
Veronica Gaylie has taught high school English and led
poetry workshops in inner city schools. Her poetry has appeared or is
forthcoming in several North American journals including: The Fiddlehead,
Xavier Review, Pottersfield Portfolio and others. She won first prize
in the 1998 CVII poetry contest and was a prize winner in the Scottish
International Poetry Competition (1997).
W. Mark Giles's work has appeared in Canadian Fiction
Magazine, Geist, Grain, Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, sub-TERRAIN,
and elsewhere. He is currently a graduate student that the University
of Calgary.
Rosalind M.Gill was born and grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland.
She is Chair of the School of Translation, Glendon College, York University,
Toronto. She teaches translation as well as French as a second language.
She has published a language teaching manual ( Le Français dans
le village global, Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999) and she has translated
two books on Quebec (Quebec Women a History, Women's Press, 1987,
and A Sociocritque of Translation - Theatre and Alterity in Quebec,
University of Toronto Press, 1996). She is presently working on translations
of Hispanic literature, particularly Cuban poetry. She has also published
her own short stories in Canadian journals, including The Antigonish
Review and Canadian Fiction Magazine.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn lives in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, and
teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her poetry has appeared in
CV2, The Malahat Review, Grain, and Room of One's Own, as
well as several anthologies. All the Perfect Disguises, her first
collection of poetry, won the Poet's Corner Award and will be published
by Broken Jaw Press in May, 2003.
Susan Glickman's fifth book of poetry is due out from
Signal Editions in 2004. All her previous publications were from Véhicule:
Complicity (1983), The Power to Move (1986), Henry Moore's
Sheep and Other Poems (1990) and Hide and Seek (1995).
Herbierto Hernández was born in Camajuaní,
Cuba, in 1964. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad
Central de Villaclara. In 1989 he was awarded the Premio David for his
poetry book Discurso en la montaña de los muertos. His three
collections of poetry La patria del espejo, Discurso en la montaña
de los muertos and Los frutos del vacio were recently published
in an anthology by Ediciones Matanzas. He lives in Miami.
Bill Howell has three poetry collections, with recent work
in ARC, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Descant, Queen's Quarterly and
TAR. His poem “Three Country Girls,” set to music by
composer Jonathan Willcocks, is the title track of a new CD from The Halifax
County Girls Choir. He is executive producer of The Mystery Project
for CBC Radio Drama in Toronto.
rob mclennan has published poetry, fiction and critical
writing in Canada, USA, India, Australia, UK and the Czech Republic. The
editor of four anthologies, including You & Your Bright Ideas: New
Montreal Writing with Andy Brown (Véhicule) and side/lines:
A Poetics (Insomniac), he lives in Ottawa.
Ed Miller resides in Fresno, California, where he is employed
as an officer with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. West
Branch, Natural Bridge, and Wascana Review have lately featured
his work.
Frederick Mundle's poetry has previously appeared in Other
Voices, CV2, The Antigonish Review and The Nashwaak Review,
as well as in other media. He writes a column for a local weekly as well
as co-hosting and writing text for a weekly radio program shared with
his wife Sarah Ann.
Cristina Perissinotto was born in Northern Italy. Her poetry
is in print in Rhino Poetry Annual, The White Pelikan Review and
various other North American poetry magazines. She has recently completed
a poetry collection, entitled Kissing in Yoruba, and is working
on a book on travel in the Renaissance.
Christian Riegel is a writer and educator who lives in
Regina. His critical books are Challenging Territory: The Writing of
Margaret Laurence and A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism
in Canadian and American Writing. The photograph of Birk Sproxton
was taken by Melinda Vester-Wiebe.
Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of Winter, Spring,
Summer, Fall: Stories (Empyreal Press/The Independent Press, Montreal),
Attractive Forces and Stray Moonbeams (NBM Publishing, New
York), both comic adaptations of his erotica illustrated by Seattle artist
Justin Norman. He is also the arts and entertainment editor of The
Nation newspaper in Barbados.
Nelson Simón was born in Pinar del Rio in 1965.
He studied at the Faculty of Cinema in the Instituto Superior de Arte
in Havana. In 1992, he published a collection of poetry entitled Ciudad
de Nadie. Many of his poems have been published in magazines in Cuba.
Eric Trethewey is a Canadian writer and author of three
collections of poetry: Dreaming of Rivers, Evening Knowledge,
and The Long Road Home. His poems, stories, essays and reviews
have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The
Dalhousie Review, The New Republic and The Paris Review. He
is Professor of English at Hollins University, Virginia.
Margaret Malloch Zielinski lives and writes in Ottawa,
ON. She has published widely and won more than a dozen awards for her
poetry.
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