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Alan Bateman has been painting and showing his work across Canada and the United States for the past twenty years. He move from Ontario to Nova Scotia at the age of thirteen, and has been living near Canning, Nova Scotia, for the past twelve years with his wife Holly Carr and their children Jack aged 7 and Lily aged 4. Alan is represented by: West End Gallery in Edmonton Alberta, Beckett Fine Art Ltd., Toronto, Ontario and through his home studio/gallery in the Annapolis Valley. For more information visit: www.alanbateman.com, or email at mail@alanbateman.com

Jean Berrett lives and writes in Clintonville, Wisconsin.

Stephanie Bolster is the author of three collections of poetry: White Stone: The Alice Poems, Two Bowls of Milk, and Pavilion. Her work has received the Governor General's Award, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the Archibald Lampman Award. Born and raised in Vancouver, she now teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal. She is working on a fourth collection, provisionally titled Boneset and Ironweed.

Mark Callanan lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. His first collection, Scarecrow, is due to be published in the fall of 2003 by Killick Press.

Liam Cleary's work has appeared mainly in his native Ireland, in poetry journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers and Fortnight. He published his first collection of short stories, Echoes, in 1999, and is currently completing his first poetry collection. He lives in Germany.

Geoffrey Cook's poetry has appeared in the latest anthologies of Atlantic Canadian Poetry, Landmarks (2001) and Coastlines (2002), and in various literary journals, including Descant, Matrix, Pottersfield Portfolio, and Books in Canada. His first book, Postscript is forthcoming from Signal Edititions/Vehicule Press in 2004.

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 rural Cape Breton.

George Daicopoulos is an investment writer from Toronto and this is the first poetry he has had published.

Adam Dickinson is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta. His first book of poetry, Cartography and Walking, was published by Brick Books in 2002 and was short listed for an Alberta Book Award. His poems have appeared most recently in Canadian Literature and CV2.

Liam Durcan lives and works in Montreal. He has recently had short fiction appear in The Fiddlehead, Event and Pottersfield Portfolio and his work will be featured in Coming Attractions '03, (Oberon Press). His first collection of short fiction will be published in the spring of 2004 by Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press.

Robert Farnsworth's poetry has appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and the Beloit Poetry Journal. Wesleyan University Press has published two collections of his work. He lives in Maine where he edits poetry for The American Scholar, a Washington, D.C. quarterly.

Kai Fierle-Hedrick has published poetry in Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Montage, and other journals. A recipient of the Chester MacNaghten Prize for Poetry from McGill University and, with the Echophilia collective, co-producer and curator of the photo-poetic installation "Compositions I" in Montreal, she is now working on an MPhil in Architecture and the Moving Image at the University of Cambridge.

Susan L. Helwig has been published or broadcast in various venues, most recently in Hart House Review 2002 and The Dalhousie Review. Her first collection "Catch the Sweet" was published by Seraphim Editions in September 2001.

Kate Foster is a student in the Columbia University Literary Non-Fiction MFA Program. The enclosed essay, Understanding the Doubling: A Meditation on the Sanders' Portrait, was inspired by the painting, but is mainly some reflections on how we consider the identity of the poet.

Edward Gates is a poet and blueberry farmer living in Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick, Canada. He has authored four previous collections: The Guest Touches Only Those Who Prepare, Seeing The World With One Eye, and the chapbooks The Slow Curve Of The Past and There Are No Limits To How Far The Traveller Can Go.

Catherine Greenwood is from Victoria and is currently living in Fredericton, where she is doing M.A. courses at the University of New Brunswick. Her collection, The Pearl King and Other Poems, is forthcoming with Brick Books in 2004.

Katia Grubisic is a writer and contemporary dancer. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly and is upcoming in Grain Magazine. She lives in Montreal.

Heather Jessup, who misses the Pacific Ocean, is completing a master's degree in creative writing at Concordia University. Her work has been published in Grain and Room of One's Own.

Michael Jordan Jones is a Newfoundland writer who has only recently developed an interest in publishing his stories. "Luxembourg Gardens" may be the tip of the iceberg.

Monica Kidd lives and works in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her poetry has been published in many Canadian literary magazines and her second novel is due out with Raincoast Books in 2004.

Amanda Lamarche lives and writes in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently working to finish her first collection of poems and will be attending the University of British Columbia in the fall for her Masters in Creative Writing. Her works can be found in journals such as Grain, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review.

Carole Langille's third book of poetry, Late in a Slow Time, was published this spring. Her children's book, Interview with a Stick Collector, has been accepted for publication by Roseway Press. She lives in Black Point, Nova Scotia, with her family.

Tim Lehnert grew up in Montreal and lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife and daughter. He is currently a stay at home dad and does occasional work for an immigration law firm as well as his own writing. His critical and creative work has appeared in the Nassau Review, Paragraph and the Xavier Review.

Naomi Lewis graduated from Carleton University in 2000 with a BA in Philosophy. She is currently pursuing her MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick. She is fiction editor of Qwerty, and her fiction recently appeared in Grain.

Moira MacDougall has undergraduate degrees in English, Humanities and Psychology; and an M.A. in Adult Education. Her poetry has been published in the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Dalhousie Review, Grain Magazine, Wind Magazine, Room of One's Own and The Harpweaver. She makes her home in Toronto, Canada.

Karen A. Malley has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her stories have been published by The Iowa Review, Kansas Quarterly, Arkansas Review, Sonora Review, and Bottomfish Magazine. She resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where she is currently finishing a novel.

Joanne Merriam is a Canadian writer and web designer who splits her time between Nashville and Nova Scotia. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio and Vallum Contemporary Poetry. You can find her online at .

Olivier Morteau was born and grew up in France. He lives with his wife in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is a medical researcher. "L'Américain" is his first published story.

Jane Munro's third book of poems is Grief Notes & Animal Dreams (Brick Books, 1995). Her work has appeared in recent issues of The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Grain, The Massachusetts Review, Event and The Capillano Review.

Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was twice featured on Poetry Daily. His work appears in Ohio Review's anthology New and Selected and in Bedford/St. Martin's college textbooks Poetry: An Introduction and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.

Clarise Samuels is the author of Holocaust Visions: Surrealism and Existentialism in the Poetry of Paul Celan. She has published poetry, book reviews, and translations and has written an as yet unpublished novel based on Norse mythology, Loving Brynhild.

Sue Sinclair grew up in Newfoundland, went to university in New Brunswick and currently lives in Toronto. Her second collection of poems, Mortal Arguments, will be published by Brick Books this fall.

K.V. Skene's work has appeared in Canadian, U.K., U.S., Irish and Australian publications, most recently Smoke, Poetry Nottingham International, South, Braquemard, Fire and The Penniless Press. His latest book, Elemental Mind, was published in 1999 by Broken Jaw Press (Canada). A chapbook, The Arran Designs and Other Poems, was published by Hilton House in 2001 and Only a Dragon was published by Micro Prose in 2002.

Vincent Spina is from New York City. He has published poetry in U.S. magazines, including Poetry East. He is presently teaching at Clarion University, PA.

Andy Stubbs lives and writes in Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been published in such journals as The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Malahat Review and Grain.

Joshua Trotter is currently studying English at Trent University in Ontario. He is a recipient of the university's Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize. As well, he recently had a series of poems appear in I don't know who you are but I'm glad you're here, an anthology by Word Works Press of Peterborough, Ontario.

Michael Trussler teaches English at the University of Regina. He's published short fiction, poetry and critical articles in numerous journals.

Kathleen Winter has published two journals with Killick Press in St. John's, and is working on a story collection. Her stories have appeared in TickleAce, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and Pottersfield Portfolio. She lives in Holyrood, Newfoundland, with her husband and two daughters.