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Kathleen Batstone spends most of her time teaching English literature at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, and in the summer is involved with Toronto's Anarchist Free University. Her other pursuits include writing about food and fiction, and cuisine-inspired travel.

Yvonne Blomer's poetry has won awards, has been published in Canadian literary journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and CV2, and is included in the upcoming anthology In Fine Form: An Anthology of Canadian Form Poetry. She is living in the UK where she is doing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Adrian Bond's stories and poems have appeared in a variety of journals including Blood & Aphorisms, The Boston Review, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and The Malahat Review (forthcoming). He has also published critical articles on English literature. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario with his family.

Vaughan Chapman is currently working on a collection of related stories. Nonetheless, she continues to write poetry, and the poem published here was catalyzed by a photograph of the November 4, 1910 Brandon Mental Asylum fire. She thanks Jane Hirschfield for her poetry.

Ian Colford's stories, reviews, and commentary have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary journals since 1992. His story "The reason for the Dream" was published in the 1998 Journey Prize Anthology. "Pirgi" is from a manuscript of linked stories entitled Evidence. He lives in Halifax, N.S.

Jan Conn is a research biologist working on mosquito genetics, and a poet. Her most recent volume of poetry is Beauties on Mad River. A new volume Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems is forthcoming in 2006. Most recently her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Event, Descant and The Antigonish Review.

Mike Corbett has lived most of his life in Nova Scotia. He grew up in Amherst around the railyard where his father worked as a station agent through the declining years of the gold age of rail. He loves mournful country music, Bach and free jazz. In his music and writing he tries to come to terms with identity, place and loss. Mike now lives with his family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. John Corker lives and writes in Montreal.

Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet. His work appears in publications such as White Wall Review, Revelation, Event, Canadian Literature, Descant and many others. It is forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly, and Vallum. "Yonge Line, Southbound" was commissioned by the CBC for Poetry Plus in 2004

Shawna Delgaty recently completed her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia. In September she will begin her MA in English at York University

Sadiqa de Meijer was a winner in This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt (2004), in the Other Voices Fiction Contest (2003) and in CBC's Ontario Today Playwriting Competition (2000).

Anita Dolman is an Ottawa-based freelance writer and editor, and managing editor of Poetics.ca. Her work has recently appeared in Grain, Geist, Utne, The Fiddlehead and Prism International. Her first chapbook, Scalpel, tea and shot glass, was published by above/ground press in fall 2004.

Marjorie Doyle is a writer in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her work has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, This Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Globe and Mail. She's working on her third book, a collection of personal essays.

Sheree Fitch has been a published poet since 1987. She agrees with her friend the late Fred Cogswell that it is "a long apprenticeship." This year Fitch will publish three new books. The novel The Gravesavers (Doubleday Random House), the picture book Peek-A-Little-Boo, (Orca, illus. by Laura Watson), and a collection of "nonsense and utter stuff" - If I Had A Million Onions (Tradewind, illus. by Yayo).

Rhonda Graham is a third year creative writing student at the University of Victoria.

Jason Guriel lives in Toronto. His poetry has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Exile and Taddle Creek. More poems are forthcoming in Arc, Descant and The Fiddlehead.

Jennifer Harrington won the Hennessey Literary Award for poetry in 2004. She has been published in literary journals and magazines in England and Ireland such as Agenda, Carrillon, Sunday Tribute, Coffee House Poetry and many more. Her work has been broadcast on RTE radio and a selection has been included in a book of Haiku, Mermaids Purse.

Robert Hawkes is a Professor emeritus (UNB: Education). He has had several collections of poetry - the latest, Poems for the Christmas Season (Broken Jaw).

Ronald Huebert teaches English at Dalhousie University and Early Modern Studies at the University of King's College. He is a former editor of The Dalhousie Review; his most recent book is titled The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama (2003); and poems of his are appearing in current issues of the Australian Journal LiNQ.

Rhoda Janzen teaches creative writing and English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She has contributed poems to many literary journals, including The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The American Literary Review.

Gwendolyn Jensen began writing poems four years ago when she retired from the presidency of Wilson College (Chambersburg, PA). Her work has appeared in Comstock Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Mid-America Poetry Review, and passenger. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dawn Marie Kresan has her Master's Degree from the University of Windsor, studied creative writing at Humber College and is the publisher of Palimpsest Press. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, including The Dalhousie Review, Vallum, Lichen, The Windsor Review, and the anthology Body Talk. Work is forthcoming in CV2 and the Anthology Leaving Footsteps.

Steven Lautermilch is a photographer and poet. Solo exhibits of his photographs from the far west have been held in galleries from the southwest to the south east. He has published an artist's book of poems and photographs, Spirit Writers, two chapbooks, The Small Craft, and What Falls Away; a new chapbook, Mirror Light is forthcoming; a new artist's book, Nocturne, will be available shortly.

Ian LeTourneau's poetry has previously appeared in Arc, The Fiddlehead, and The Antigonish Review. His book reviews have appeared in The Fiddlehead and Books in Canada. He now lives in Athabasca, Alberta, where he is completing his first poetry manuscript.

Mustapha Marrouchi, who lives, writes and teaches in Toronto, is the author of Signifying with a Vengeance (SUNY 2002) and Edward Said at the Limits (SUNY 2004). Islam at Cross-purposes with the West is in the making.

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa. His 10th collection is stone, book one (Palimpsest Press). The editor/publisher of above/ground press & STANZAS magazine, he edits www.poetics.ca with Stephen Brockwell. Every so often, he says clever things on his blog, www.robmclennan.blogspot.ca.

Anne Merritt is a recent graduate of Queen's University who lives and writes across the map.

James Moran is an Ottawa journalist. His poetry has appeared in dig and Bywords Quarterly Journal, and his fiction in Algonquin Roundtable Review. He also directs Ottawa's Tree Reading Series, one of Canada's longest-running literary series.

Lorri Neilsen Glenn's first collection of poetry, All the Perfect Disguises, was published in 2003. She is currently working on a second collection and a book of creative nonfiction. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As well, she has just been appointed Poet Laureate of Halifax for a four-year term.

Diane Penwill lives and works in Toronto. She has published several travel articles, and other non-fiction for The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. "Lush Lives" is her first published short story.

Aaron Pope lives in on Vancouver Island, B.C. His work can be found in Portal Magazine, When the Fish Come in Dancing - Stories from the West-Coast Fishery (Strawberry Hill, 2002), and Polestar's upcoming anthology of Canadian form-poetry, In Fine Form (2005).

Glenn Priestley graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1976 with an Honours diploma and spent the last year of study in off campus studies in Florence Italy. He has had numerous solo and group shows throughout Canada and the United States. In 2004 The Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton held a 25 year survey of his work, Glenn Priestley/Variations, curated by Tom Smart. Since 1996 he has lived in Fredericton N.B. with his wife and daughter.

Christopher Reibling is a writer, a musician and visual artist. He has taught creative writing at York University and Canadian Studies at Johannes Gutenburg University in Germany. A violinist, he founded the Aradia Baroque Ensemble in 1993, a 30-member period instrument orchestra which has produced recordings for Naxos Records and two music videos for the BRAVO network. He is a music critic for The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail.

David Adams Richards was born in 1950 in Newcastle, NB. He graduated from high school and attended St. Thomas University. David published his first book, The Coming of Winter, in 1974. He has written 17 books and 13 novels. He lives in Toronto with his wife Peggy, sons John and Anton.

Christian Riegel lives in Regina where he teaches Canadian Literature and contemporary poetry at Campion College, University of Regina. Recent poetry of his has appeared in Gaspereau Review, Grain, Flood Quarterly, and New Delta Review.

Mark Rogers lives in Toronto with his wife, new son, and two cats.

Rosamond Rosenmeier is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Her poetry has appeared in various journals. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1989 by Alice James Books. She has just collaborated with the Cuban-born literary critic Flora Gonzales Mandri on a translation of In the Vortex of the Cyclone by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana, published by the University of Florida Press in 2002.

Sara Salih is from London, England. She now lives in Toronto.

Kenneth Sherman's most recent books are The Well: New and Selected Poems, and Void and Voice: Essays on Literary and Historical Currents.

Madeline Sonik lives in Victoria, BC. Her book-length works include the children's novel Belinda and the Dustbunnys (Hodgepog Press), the novel Arms (Nightwood Editions), and the short story collection Drying the Bones (Nightwood Editions).

Valerie Stetson's poetry and fiction have appeared in literary journals including Event, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, and The Dalhousie Review, and in several anthologies including Gifts: Poems for Parents (Sumach Press). In 2001, she received the Bronwen Wallace Award for short fiction. She lives in Kelowna, B.C.

Christine Stewart-Nuņez is a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where in 2003 she was awarded the Academy of America Poets Award. Her poetry and reviews of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Calyx, The Texas Review, Passages North and Arts and Letters and others.

Tony Tremblay is one of the Essays/Articles Editors for The Antigonish Review.

Daniel Scott Tysdal lives on a farm south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His first collection of poetry, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, is forthcoming from Coteau Books.

John Vigna is a former professional basketball player obsessed with hoopshype.com and single malt. He lives in Vancouver where his dog, Jaine, holds him hostage. "Two" is his first published work of fiction.

Laura Wang Arseneau was born in the Philippines and now lives in Grimsby, Ontario. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, she has written essays on visual art as well as non-fiction for Canadian Living and The Globe and Mail. She studied at the Humber School for Writers and is at work on a first novel, set in the orchards of Niagara. "Last Dance" is her first publication in a literary magazine.

Herb Wyile is an associate professor of English at Acadia University and has published widely in contemporary Canadian literature. He is the author of Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and is one of the editors of two journal special issues, Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction (2002) and A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing (1998).

Lawrence g. Yates' work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly, Descant and most recently in The Blue Moon Review (U.S.A.). He is presently seeking a publisher for his first collection of short stories, Liquid Geography, and has begun work on his second collection Where Bones River Bones.