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Cover Photographer - Leslie Shedden was
born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He served in the Photographic Division
of the Royal Canadian Armed Forces during World War Two. He worked as
a commerical photographer in Glace Bay until his retirement in 1977. Leslie
Shedden passed away in 1987.
Martin Bennett lives in Rome where he works
as a teacher and part-time translator. Three of his short stories have
been broadcast on BBC World Service while a book of West African Trickster
Tales, Tales from West Africa, was published by Oxford University
Press.
Allan Brown's poems and reviews have appeared
in The Antigonish Review. His collection, Imagines (Leaf
Press 2002), was co-winner of the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. A partial
selected, Frames of Silence, is forthcoming in Seraphim Editions
in April 2005. Born in Victoria, he currently lives in Powell River, BC.
Carol Bruneau is the author of two short
fiction collections and the novel Purple for Sky, winner of the
2001 Atlantic Fiction Award and Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel,
Berth, will be published this fall by Cormorant Books. Based in
Halifax, she teaches writing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University.
Jean Marie de Moissac lives and writes
in the Bear Hills near Biggar, Saskatchewan.
Barry Dempster is the author of eight collections
of poetry, most recently, Words Wanting Out, Poems Selected
and New. "Recognition" is part of a new volume to be published
by Brick Books in 2005.
Stewart Donovan is an English professor
at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is also the
Editor of the Nashwaak Review.
Dale Estey is a professional writer who
lives in Hampton, New Brunswick. His published works include a recent
collection of short stories entitled The Elephant Talks to God,
the internationally well-received A Lost Tale and The Bonner
Deception of which he is writing a feature length film adaptation.
Urs Frei has had his short stories published
in Fantasy, Science Fiction, The Fiddlehead, and Pottersfield
Portfolio. He teaches overseas in the winters and is working on a
short story collection.
Daniel Griffin is a Toronto writer whose
short stories have appeared, or will soon appear, in Geist, Prairie
Fire, The Massachusetts Review, and The Dalhousie Review.
Stephen Henighan's recent books include
Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family (Beach Holme, 2002),
When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing (Porcupine's
Quill, 2002), and the novel The Streets of Winter (Thistledown
Press, 2004).
Evan Jones has had translations and his
own poems published in Descant, The Malahat Review, Queen Street Quarterly,
Vallum, and online at Poetry Greece. His first poetry collection,
Nothing Fell Today But Rain, was nominated for the Governor-General's
Literary Award for Poetry in 2003.
Joe Keogh teaches media language and literature
at Niagara University. He has appeared in and with Marshall McLuhan in
Explorations in McLuhan Studies (Toronto) and in Jacques Ellul's
Foi et Vie (Paris). He is also a regular contributor to Etymologies
archive of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Don McKay's most recent books are Vis
a Vis: field notes on poetry and wilderness (Gaspereau Press) and
Camber: Selected poems (McClelland & Stewart). He currently lives
on Vancouver Island, B.C.
Chris Michalski's translations of German
and Spanish fiction and poetry have appeared in North American and overseas
literary journals such as Two Lines, Circumference, and
Prism International.
Helen Montgomery resides in Truro, Nova
Scotia with her four children - Sarah, Deborah, Andrew and Anna. Trained
formally in music, she divides her time between parenting, writing poetry,
and teaching in both the school system and her private music studio.
James Moran is an Ottawa journalist whose
credits include CBC Radio, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal
Gazette, Capital Xtra and Canadian Wildlife Magazine. Moran
currently writes the Textual Orientations book review column for To
Be Publications Inc. His poetry has appeared in dig and Bywords
Quarterly Journal and his fiction in Algonquin Roundtable Review.
James Moran also direct Ottawa's Tree Reading Series, one of Canada's
longest-running literary series.
Michael Morical grew up in Indianapolis,
wrote and taught English for several years in Asia, and now teaches English
at Boricua College in New York City. His work has appeared in The New
York Quarterly, Rattapalax, GSU Review, Electric Acorn and others.
Catherine Owen's poems are from her new
manuscript, FYRE and Misc: elegies. She has two books forthcoming:
Cusp/detritus and Shall: a collection of ghazals.
Jean Pfleiderer came to Canada from Colorado
and now lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.
matt robinson works as a Residence Community
Coordinator at University of New Brunswick and is a Poetry Editor at The
Fiddlehead. His poetry has received numerous awards, including The
Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize and Grain Magazine's Short
Grain Prose Poem Prize. robinson's most recent collections of poetry include
the letter-pressed limited edition chapbook, tracery & interplay
(Frog Hollow Press, 2004) and the forthcoming full-length collection of
hockey poems, no cage contains a star that well.
David Rothberg works in the investment
business in Toronto.
Miltos Sahtouris (born 1919) is a major
poet of the post-war period in Greece. Since 1945 he has published 14
books of poetry. The poems translated here are from a 1977 collection,
Poems (1945-1971). His poems have been translated into Italian,
French, German, Spanish and English. He lives in Athens.
Silke Scheuermann is considered one of
the most talented and visionary poets of her generation (born 1973 in
Karlsruhe, Germany). For her two volumes of poetry, Der zärtlichste
Punkt im All and Der Tag an dem die Möwen zweistimmig sangen,
she has been awarded several prizes.
Bren Simmers works as a Fire Lookout in
the Rocky Mountains. Her work has been recently published in Arc, The
Fiddlehead, and is forthcoming in CV2 and Red Light: Superheroes,
Saints and Sluts, an anthology by Arsenal Pulp Press.
David Solway's most recent book of poetry
is The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat (Goose Lane Editions, 2005) and
his latest collection of literary criticism is Director's Cut (The
Porcupine's Quill, 2003). Solway was appointed poet-in-residence at Concordia
University for 1999-2000 and is currently a contributing editor with Canadian
Notes & Queries and an associate editor with Books in Canada.
Jessica Taylor is a student living and
working in Toronto. She has previously been published in The Hart House
Review and Other Voices. David Zieroth's memoir is The
Education of Mr. Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood (MacFarlane Walter
& Ross, 2002), and his sixth book of poems is Crows Do Not Have Retirement
(Harbour, 2001). Poems have appeared online and are scheduled to appear
in The Fiddlehead and Grain. His long poem, "The
Village of Sliding Time," will be published in 2006 by Harbour. More
information can be read at http://www3.telus.net/dzieroth.
S.P. Zitner has published two books of
poetry, The Asparagus Feast (1999) and Before We Had Words
(2002), both with McGill-Queen's, and a chapbook (2003) with Junction
Books. His poems have also appeared in numerous journals.
Jan Zwicky's most recent book is Wisdom
and Metaphor, published in the fall of 2003 by Gaspereau Press. The
poems in this issue are from a manuscript forthcoming in the spring of
2005 with Gaspereau Press.
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