Issue
# 133
Contributors To
This Issue
Contributors
Lori Maleea Acker won second prize in TAR's 2002
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. Her chapbook, Notikewin, is forthcoming
with Junction Books, Toronto. She is currently participating in a writing/photography
exchange program in Mexico, offered through The Banff Centre. She lives
in Victoria, British Columbia and at Clear Hills lookout tower. 
Jan Conn's latest book of poems is Beauties on Mad
River: Selected and New Poems, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 2000. Her
work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Antigonish Review,
The Malahat Review, PRISM International, Room of One's Own,
and The Fiddlehead.
Wayne Curtis lives and writes in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Tracy Danison is a freelance editor working in Paris,
France. Tracy has been writing lyric poetry for 25 years and has recently
written a porno-sentimental novel, Confusion or my f*king history by
Cecilia Patterson.
Jeffery Donaldson's second volume of poems,
Waterglass, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1999.
He teaches poetry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Catherine Egan graduated from the University of British
Columbia in 1999 and moved to Japan. For the past three years, she has
taught high school English in Tokyo and the Izu Islands. She is presently
working on a novel and studying Japanese.
Dorothy Field is a visual artist working with handmade
paper for artists' books and sculpture. Her poetry has appeared or is
forthcoming in journals including The Malahat Review, Grain, Event
and The Fiddlehead. She lives on a farm on Vancouver Island.
Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930-1991) grew up in Superior, Wisconsin,
majored in science as an undergraduate, audited theology lectures at Göttingen
University, and obtained an MFA at the University of Minnesota. In 1961
she moved to Halifax with her husband John, who began working at Dalhousie
University. She remained there, with visits to Provence and Mexico, until
her death. Her works are in numerous collections, including the National
Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, and
the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. For more information, see www.jottings.ca.
Desmond Graham's recent publications are Keith Douglas:
The Letters (Carcanet, 2000) and a fourth collection of poems After
Shakespeare (Flambard, 2001). Desmond is a professor of Poetry at
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Karin Gray is in her final year of an MFA in Creative
Writing at the University of British Columbia and has had poems appear
in Room of One's Own, Wreck, Comfort Zone and Bywords. Her
thesis is a book length work of poetry which explores moving house and
what this does to habits and patterns of living.
Carrie Haber lived in Prague between 1998 and 2000, where
she began work on the documentary Pig Farm, currently in postproduction.
She has since returned to Montreal, where she works as a new media producer,
freelance journalist, and plays cello and electronic instruments in a
few local ensembles. She was recently awarded the 2003 CBC/Quebec Writer's
Federation Short Story prize. Her project Solo&Inch is set to release
its first album in Summer 2003.
Brecken Rose Hancock lives and writes in Saskatchewan.
She has been previously published in The Claremont Review.
Peter Heinegg teaches English and World Literature at
Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he is also director of Religious
Studies. He also translates, reviews books, and writes essays. His book
on "Mortalism" is due to be published this year.
Keith Jardim is from Port of Spain, Trinidad. His fiction
has appeared in Kyk-Over-Al, Mississippi Review, Denver Quarterly,
Atlanta Review, Trinidad and Tobago Review and elsewhere. He presently
teaches at the University of Houston where he is a C. Glenn Cambor Fellow
in the Creative Writing Program.
Sarah Klassen, formerly a high school English teacher,
presently lives and writes in Winnipeg. Her first book of short fiction,
The Peony Season, was published in 2000 and was nominated for the
Margaret Laurence Award (Manitoba). Her most recent poetry collections
are Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love (1999) and Dangerous
Elements (1998). Her work has appeared in literary journals across
Canada.
Nicholas Köhler has been a teacher in Japan and a newspaper
reporter in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. He is currently pursuing a Master
of Journalism degree at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Sue MacLeod lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she writes
poetry and fiction and works in a public library.
Giovanni Malito's poetry has previously appeared in The
Antigonish Review. He is a Canadian, from Toronto, who has been working
as a Lecturer in Chemistry in Ireland for the past seven years. Others
of his translations from Quaderno have appeared in Modern Poetry
in Translation, Rhino, Superior Poetry News, Whole Notes and Books
Ireland. The enclosed translations are from Quaderno di Quattro
Anni which was published when Eugenio Montale was 82 years old.
Dave Margoshes is a Regina writer. His most recent book
of poems is Purity of Absence (2001). His new novel, Drowning
Man will be published in the spring 2003.
Eugenio Montale, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize
for Literature, was born in Genoa, Italy. He was the youngest of five
children born to Domenico and Giuseppina Montale. During World War I he
served as an infantry officer Montale wrote poetry, prose, and translated
works. His first volume of poetry Ossi di Seppia (Bones of the
Cuttlefish) was published in 1925. He was a cofounder of the hermeneutic
school of poetry in Italy. Eugenio Montale died in Milan of a heart ailment
in 1981.
Wendy Morton is the host of the Mocambopo weekly poetry
reading series in Victoria, B.C., now in its 7th year. Her first book
of poetry, Private Eye, was published by Ekstasis Editions in 2001.
Her second book Undercover, will be published in the spring of
2003. As well, she is WestJet's "poet of the skies." The airline sponsored
her on a "Celebration of Literacy Tour" across Canada in 2002, and will
be sponsoring her again in 2003.
Drew Pautz currently lives and works in London, UK as
a playwright and lighting designer. Recent work appears in The Malahat
Review. His poem sequence On Trains will be the basis of Foolsyard
Theatre's spring and summer UK tour.
David Reibetanz studies English and creative writing at
the University of Toronto. He has been a prizewinner in the Hart House
Literary Competition and the Hart House Poetry Contest, and is the 2002
recipient of the E.J. Pratt Medal. His most recent work has appeared in
The Fiddlehead.
Jeremy Stafford lives and writes in North Hatley, Quebec.
His stories have appeared in Maisonneuve and Telling Stores:
New English Stories from Quebec (Véhicule Press) - a collection of
the winning stories and honourable mentions from the past thee years of
CBC Radio's short story competition.
Deborah Stiles lives and writes in Truro, Nova Scotia.
John Terpstra has published six books of poetry and was
included in the anthology New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry and Whiteside,
2002). His first work of non-fiction, Falling into Place was published
in the fall of 2002 by Gaspereau Press.
Melissa Walker is a poet and journalist. Her poems last
appeared in The Fiddlehead No. 213.
Margo Wheaton lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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