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Ed Balsom researches contemporary Atlantic-Canadian fiction and is interested in the politics of identity, paradigms of relationships, and nationalism. He now teaches at the College of the North Atlantic in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar.

Marilyn Belak lives in Dawson Creek, B.C., in the neighbourhood of Canada's alternate literary centre, The Rolla Pub. She has been previously published in Malahat Review, Ezines, and local papers. This year she participated in "The Poet's Corner" of Vancouver's Word on the Street.

Anne Blonstein lives in Basel, Switzerland, where she works as a freelance translator and editor. She has published two full-length collections and two chapbooks (sand.soda.lime, Broken Boulder Press, 2002 and that those lips had language, Plan B Press, 2005). A new chapbook, from eternity to personal pronoun, is forthcoming from Heliotrope.

Brian Burke was born in Charlottetown, PEI. He studied design at Holland College and fine art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions across Canada, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Switzerland. Recent Awards include grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and a commission from Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown. He lives and works on Prince Edward Island.

Kate Cayley is a theatre director and writer. She is the artistic director of Stranger Theatre, and artistic producer of The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival. For Stranger Theatre, she has written East of the Sun, West of the Moon, The Clown of God, The Yellow Wallpaper Project, The Counterfeit Marquise, and Luz. She lives in Toronto.

Gwen Davies writes fiction, teaches creative writing, and is the founder of Nova Scotia's writing retreat Community of Writers. Her story "No Endings" appears in the December, 2003 Pottersfield Portfolio. She won first prize in the 2002 Javier de Mier Literary Contest in Madrid, Spain (in translation). Gwen lives in Halifax, where she also does consulting in plain language.

Cortney Davis's third poetry collection, Leopold's Maneuvers, won the 2003 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has authored a memoire, and co-edited two anthologies. Her poems appear in numerous journals. She lives in Connecticut. Linda L. Dove writes and ranches in Skull Valley, Arizona, following 15 years of college teaching. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Georgetown Review, Alligator Juniper, GSU Review and Clackamas Literary Review, and have won several awards, including the 2005 Stephen Dunn award and the 2001 Alice Longan Award for a collection inspired by the American Southwest.

Dorothy Field's first book of poetry, Leaving the Narrow Place, was published in 2004 by Oolichan Books. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as CV2, The Fiddlehead, Event, The Malahat Review, Grain, Prairie Fire, and the anthology THRESHOLD. She is also a visual artist working with handmade paper for artist's books and dry-point prints.

John Fell lives in Thunder Bay and teaches English at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.

Amanda Jernigan presently lives in Newfoundland. She has recently finished editing a special issue of Canadian Notes & Queries, devoted to the work of Eric Ormsby. Some of her poems are to appear in a forthcoming issue of Poetry (Chicago).

Amy Jones is an MFA student in the UBC Creative Writing Program. Her short ficiton has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Quarterly, Grain, and The Harpweaver. She currently lives in Halifax.

Donna Kane lives near Dawson Creek, BC. Her first book of poetry, Somewhere, a Fire, was published in 2004 by Hagios Press (Regina).

Kendra Kopelke lives in Baltimore, MD. She has poems forthcoming in Poetry Motel and Stream. She is author of two books of poems, Eager Street and Carpe Diem, Ants. and co-editor of Passenger, a journal featuring the work of new older writers. She directs the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore.

Tanis MacDonald is the author of Fortune (Turnstone Press, 2003) and Holding Ground (Serpahim, 2000). Fortune was recently nominated for the Mary Scorer Award for the best book by a Manitoba publisher. She is a doctoral candidate and sessional instructor in English at the University of Victoria.

Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was one of the great Spanish modernists.

Eric Miller teaches at the University of Victoria. His second book of poetry, In the Scaffolding, appeared in Goose Lane Editions in 2005. He has translated Linneaeus and Sulzer, and written on figures such as Christopher Smart and Ann Radcliffe.

Sachiko Murakami is originally from BC. She now lives in Montreal where she is a graduate student in Concordia's English Literature and Creative Writing Program. Her poetry has recently appeared in CV2. André Narbonne currently teaches at The University of Windsor. He is a former chair of the BS Poetry Society, and his poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Halifax/Dartmouth, Pottersfield Portfolio, and is forthcoming in Sage of Consciousness. "The Advancements" won first prize in the Atlantic Writing Contest in 1999.

Angela Hibbs Park's poems have most recently appeared in Matrix, Room of Ones Own, Fireweed, Exile and Headlight Anthology. Her first collection of poems, passport, is forthcoming with DC Books in the Spring of 2006.

Ian Roy is the author of two books, The Longest Winter, and the short story collection, People Leaving. He lives in Ottawa.

Nicholas Ruddock practices medicine in Guelph, Ontario. He has also lived in Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and Quebec. His poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review and The Fiddlehead, and his short fiction in the Dalhousie Review. Eleonore Schönmaier's poetry collection Trading Fast Rivers (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian. Her collection of fiction Passion Fruit Tea (Roseway Publishing, 1994) was widely praised in reviews. She has taught advanced fiction courses at St. Mary's University and creative writing at mount Saint Vincent University. She divides her time between Nova Scotia's south shore and coastal Europe.

J. Mark Smith was born in Oregon. He now lives in Toronto and teaches English part-time at UTSC. He has been recently published in Grain, The Fiddlehead, and The Danforth Review. "Out of an Airport" was written after a visit to Fort Simpson, and Nahanni National Park, NWT in the summer of 2001. Dene K'ée (sometimes referred to in English as 'South Slavey') is one of several languages spoken by the people of the Deh Cho nation.

Glen Sorestad was the first provincially designated poet laureate in Canada, serving as Saskatchewan's Poet Laureate from 2000-2004. A Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets and a recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, he has over 15 volumes published, the most recent being Blood & Stone, Ice & Stone (Thistledown, 2005). He lives in Saskatoon.

Richard Teleky teaches in the Humanities Division of York University. His books include The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, which received the Ribalow Prize (U.S.) for the best novel of 1999; a recent novel, Pack Up the Moon; Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Culture; and a collection of short fiction, Goodnight Sweetheart and Other Stories. His poems have appeared in numerous journals. His forthcoming books include a collection of poems, The Hermit's Kiss, and a novel, Winter in Hollywood. Nikolijne Troubetzkoy lives and writes in Toronto. She was most recently published in The Fiddlehead.

Leslie Vryenhoek is a writer, editor, communications professional and avid Scrabble player who has just moved from Winnipeg to St. John's on a dare.

Linda Young is the editor of the newly founded American-Canadian journal, The Saranac Review. Her poetry has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Colorado Review, Interim, New York Quarterly, and others, and an electronic chapbook, Muse. Young teaches English Education and introductory literature courses at Plattsburgh State University in Plattsburgh, New York.