Issue
# 137
Contributors
To This Issue
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Featured Artist:
Kate Brown Georgallas
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John Wall Barger's poetry has appeared in
Arc, Haz Mat, Element and Urban Graffiti. He hosts
a spoken word night (Monstrosity) in a local art space and teaches English
Literature part-time at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Michael Blouin's fiction and poetry have
been published in Grain, Queen's Quarterly, Descant Magazine
and Arc. He was winner of the 2003 Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry
at Arc Magazine .
Stephen Brockwell is the author of The
Wire in Fences and Cometology. His most recent collection,
Fruitfly Geographic, was published in Spring 2004 by ECW Press.
Cathy Marie Buchanan is currently researching a novel set in Niagara
Falls where she was born and raised. She is a graduate of the Humber School
for Writers. "His Hands" is from Making the Bed, her collection
of connected short stories.
Kevin Bushell teaches English at Vanier College,
Montreal, Quebec. He has published poems in The Fiddlehead and
other literary journals. He is currently taking a year's sabbatical in
Budapest, Hungary, where he is writing a collection of poems.
Jan Conn is a research biologist at the Wadsworth
Center in Albany, New York, part of the New York Department of Health.
Her poetry has been published in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry
Ireland Review, The Malahat Review, Descant and The
Antigonish Review.
Mary Pat Cude has published articles and
reviews in Canadian journals as well as poems in both Canadian and American
journals. Her novel The Bargain was short-listed for the City of
Dartmouth Book Award. Cude lives in a quiet corner of Cape Breton with
her author husband Wilfred Cude.
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 Roberta, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Joe Davie s' work has appeared in several
magazines across Canada. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario with his remarkable
wife and three dazzling children.
Jeremy Dodds' poems have appeared in several
Canadian and international journals, and have been translated into Finnish,
Icelandic, Swedish, French, Latvian, and Dutch. He currently lives in
Peterborough, Ontario.
Deirdre Dwyer is the author of The Breath
that Lightens the Body and Going to the Eyestone. A Course
Editor at St. Mary's University and a tutor at NSCAD, she lives in Musquodoboit
Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Veronica Gaylie's poems have recently appeared
in North American and UK literary journals. She appeared at the Seattle
Poetry Festival (2002), was short-listed for the 2003 Geoffrey Dearmer
Prize (UK), was finalist in the CBC Literary Awards (2000), and won first
prize in Contemporary VerseII's poetry contest (1999).
Kate Brown Georgallas is a Nova Scotia artist
living in Antigonish. She is best known for her watercolour paintings
and original etchings. She works from life, her subjects include landscapes,
animals and the human figure. Her work is colourful, detailed and delicate,
with an emphasis on simplified line and form. She has also painted large
murals, illustrated books and designed theatre sets.
Melanie Jasmine Grant is a Halifax poet who
studies literature and creative writing at St. Mary's University with
a scholarship from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.
Renée Hartleib writes short fiction and is
working on a novel. She recently completed the Emerging Writers Mentorship
Program through the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. She was a finalist
in the 2001 Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition and was awarded
Second Prize in the 2002 Atlantic Writing Competition.
warren heiti was born in Sudbury, Ontario.
His work has been published in Matrix64, and Grain and is
forthcoming in Descant.
Brian Henderson has authored eight collections
of poetry, including a deck of visual poem-cards. He has published many
articles and reviews and much poetic work in literary magazines. He is
the director of Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Peggy Herring is a writer whose work appears
in various literary magazines, most recently in The Fed Anthology:
Brand New Fiction and Poetry from the Federation of B.C. Writers (Anvil
Press, 2003). She is currently working on a novel and living in Victoria,
B.C. and New Delhi, India.
Kevin Higgins' poems have appeared in a wide
variety of magazines and anthologies in Ireland, Britain and North America.
His first collection The Boy With No Face will be published by
Salmon. He is also a widely published critic and has reviews forthcoming
in both Vallum and Books in Canada .
Jan Hutchison is a trained librarian who
is involved in a poetry collective in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Beth E. Janzen's poetry has appeared in journals
such as Event, Descan t , and Grain. Night Vanishes,
a chapbook, will appear in Spring 2004. She lives in Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island.
Jesse Lee Kercheval' s second poetry book,
Dog Angel, is forthcoming this March (University of Pittsburgh
Press). Her poetry and prose appears in recent issues of Poetry London,
Poetry Ireland Review, and Volt among others. She teaches at
the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute
for Creative Writing.
Anita Lahey's work has appeared in The
Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, New Quarterly,
Pagitica, and on buses in Ottawa, where she lives. She is the recent
winner of the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and is managing editor of
Arc .
Rekha Lakra, who lives in Toronto, has had
two essays published in the Facts & Arguments section of The
Globe & Mail and has been shortlisted for the CBC literary prize.
John Lofranco teaches creative writing at
Concordia University. His first collection, Enchiridion / Divan,
will be published by Guernica Editions (Toronto) in 2005.
Steve McOrmond's poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in journals from coast to coast. His first book of poetry
entitled Lean Days will be published in Spring 2004 by Wolsak and
Wynn. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he currently lives in Toronto.
Leonard Newfeldt was born and raised in Yarrow, British Columbia.
His publications include books and articles on New England cultural and
literary history, a cultural history of Yarrow BC, and five volumes of
poems. He and his wife, Mera, reside in Gig Harbor, Washington.
Ingrid Ruthig is a writer and architect living
near Toronto. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals
and is forthcoming in Wascana Review and two anthologies by Black Moss
Press. She co-edits lichen and is currently completing a collection
of poetry. Eleonore Schönmaier's most recent book Treading Fast
Waters (Carleton University Press) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert
Award.
J. K. Snyder is a retired English Professor
who lives in Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia. He has published poetry, translations
and reviews in The Antigonish Review and other Canadian and U.S.
literary journals. Currently he is working on translations from the German
poet, Ernst Meister.
David Solway is the author of many books
of poetry. Writer-in-residence at Concordia University for 1999-2000,
he is currently a contributing editor with Canadian Notes & Queries
and an associate editor with Books in Canada .
Robert Scott Stewart is a professor of Philosophy
and Religious Studies. He has had a long standing interest in literature
and has recently published in this field on material extending from Anne
Tyler and Annie Proulx to Mary Shelley and Shakespeare.
Jolene Vanthuyne is a Saskatoon writer who
has had work published in Event and Grain .
Dana Wilde's writings have appeared widely
in publications such as The North American Review, One Lamp: Alternate
History Stories, and Xavier Review . He lives in Troy, Maine,
with his wife and son. An excerpt of "The Great Bear in Maine" first appeared
in Puckerbrush in 2001.
Mary Winslow is a writer who lives in Silver
Spring, Maryland. Her translations of Norwegian poetry and her non-fiction
articles have appeared in magazines in the United States and England.
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