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Lori Maleea Acker has work forthcoming in CV2, Descant and High Ground Press' Companions Broadsheet Series. Her poetry has recently appeared in Event, Navigaciones Sur, The Antigonish Review and in the chapbook, Notikewin, published by Junction Books.

Clea Ainsworth lives on the Takhini River in Whitehorse, Yukon. She has published poetry in several literary journals including CV2, Room of One's Own, and Ice-Floe: International Poetry of the Far North.

Mary Kathryn Arnold is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Toronto. In 1997, Rye Hill Press of Philadelphia (PA) published her chapbook of poems, September Fruit. Her poems have previously appeared in The Fiddlehead and The New Compass.

Gregory A. Barnes has published widely, including a novella and several stories about his experiences in Africa. His most recent story, "This is Kano," appeared in the 2003 issue of the Antietam Review.

Anjana Basu taught English Literature, briefly, in Calcutta University. She writes poetry, stories, features in the local newspapers and in Harmony and Travel Plus. She has had a book of short stories published by Orient Longman, India. The BBC had broadcast one of her short stories and her poems have featured in an anthology brought out by Penguin India. In America she has been published in The Wolfhead Quarterly, Gowanus, The Blue Moon Review, and Recursive Angel, to name a few. Harper Collins India brought out her novel Curses In Ivory last year.

Susie Bowers grew up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She now studies in the English and Creative Writing MA programme at the University of New Brunswick.

Alex Boyd lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario. He has been writing and publishing poetry for about ten years. He has an extensive publication list.

Susan Briscoe has an MA in creative writing from Concordia University. Her poetry has appeared in CV2, Matrix, and Sprung, a Tibbits Hill Press anthology. In 2005 she was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards.

Robin Chapman's newest collection of poetry is a collaboration with the strange attractors produced by physicist Clint Sprott in Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (World Scientific). Her poems have appeared recently in Appalachia, The Hudson Review, Hummingbird, and OnEarth.

Jack Davis spends his summers working in the woods of Northern Ontario and his winters writing in the woods on Lake Talon, near Bonfield, Ontario. This is the first time he has submitted his work to a journal.

Morgan Dennis's writing has appeared in The New Quarterly and The Washington Post. Originally from British Columbia, he now lives in Toronto. He is completing a collection of short stories.

Antony Di Nardo has published in journals from coast to coast, including The Fiddlehead, Descant, Grain and Event, among others. Three Poems, a chapbook by Tibbits Hill Press, was published last year and another, Speedwell, is forthcoming in 2006. His fiction reviews appear in Books in Canada. He lives in Sutton, Quebec.

Kate Drummond is a second-year Philosophy student at Queen's University. She enjoys tea and dance parties. She has been writing since childhood and credits her late mother, a poet, with instilling in her a love of creative writing.

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, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Grain. She is also a visual artist using handmade paper for artists' books and dry-point prints.

David Groulx lives and writes in Moose Creek, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in magazines in England, Australia, Canada, Wales and the United States. He has also published two books of poetry, Night in the Exude (Tyro Books) and The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press).

Katia Grubisic has published a chapbook with Delirium Press and poetry, fiction, translations and reviews in The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, ellipse, Books in Canada, Front & Center and The Fiddlehead. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. Jennifer Houle writes from Shediac, New Brunswick. Her work has appeared in Lichen, and is forthcoming in Arc. She hopes to have a book out within a couple of years.

Louisa Howerow writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. One of her short stories was published in The Antigonish Review. Her poems have been published in small press magazines in Canada, England and the United States. In 2005 one of her poems was nominated for the National Magazine Award.

Thomas J. Hubschman is the author of the novel Billy Boy (Savvy Press) and two science fiction novels, Alpha-II and Space Ark. A collection of his stories, The Jew's Wife & Other Stories, is scheduled for publication in 2006. He is also editor of The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (Gowanus Books). His short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in numerous print and online publications. Two of his stories were broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Daniel Morley Johnson recently completed his MA in History at McGill University, where he now works in the Faculty of Arts. He has work forthcoming in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. He is on the board of Toronto's Art Bar poetry series.

Judith Krause is currently at work on her fourth collection of poems, tentatively entitled A History of Clouds. Her most recent published collection is Silk Routes of the Body (Coteau Books, 2001).

Donna Langevin lives in Toronto and is the mother of three sons. Her poems have appered in the Artemis, Squid Inc., and Emily Dickinson anthologies and in journals such as Arc, The Antigonish Review, Descant, Grain and Quarry. She has published two books and a chapbook. She is working on a new book of poetry, Seven Last Lines.

Cory Lavender of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, just received an Honours BA in English from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. His honours thesis, "Ashbery at Night," performs a liminal reading of John Ashbery's poetry. Lavender has shipped and received in a Burnside warehouse for the past seven years. He has a poem, "father's milk," forthcoming in The Antigonish Review. This is his first published essay.

Edward Lemond lives and writes in Moncton, New Brunswick. He owns and operates the Attic Owl Bookshop in Moncton. He is also one of the planners for the Northrup Frye Literary Festival.

Kathy S. Leonard is professor of Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She has numerous published works. She has worked almost exclusively with Bolivian women writers and their literature since 1994 and has received a number of awards for research and translation of their work. She has been involved in photography for many years and holds a BA in Fine Arts with a specialization in photography.

María Rosa Lojo was born in 1954 in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Spaniards; her father, a Republican from Galicia, had exiled himself to Argentina after the Civil War. Her published work in Spanish includes three books of poetry. Her prose, representative of the so-called "new historical narrative," includes the novels La pasión de los nómades (1994) and Las Libres del Sur (2004), and the collection of short narratives Amores insólitos de nuestra historia (2001). English translations of her poems and prose by Brett Alan Sanders have also appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Saint Ann's Review, Chelsea, Stand Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, Artful Dodge, Event, New Works Review among others.

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, where he does a number of things. The author of ten trade collections of poetry, he has two more forthcoming: name , an errant (Stride, UK, 2006) and The Ottawa City Project (haudiere Books, 2007). He is also the editor of three collections of essays forthcoming in Guernica Editions' Writers Series on the works of John Newlove, Andrew Suknaski and George Bowering. He often reviews and rants on his clever blog - wwwrobmclennan.blogspot.com.

Natalie Meisner is a playwright, poet and fiction writer originally from Nova Scotia. She has edited both PRISM International and Dandelion and currently serves as a Poetry Editor of the Wascana Review. She has been published in numerous literary journals.

Sarah Mian lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was published in the anthology To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax in 1995 and won 3rd prize in the Atlantic Writing Competition, 2003, and 1st prize in the Clare Murray Fooshee Poetry Prize in 1997. She was short-listed in 2000 for the Ray Burrell Award for Poetry.

Renate M. Mohr recently won first place in two short story contests (Room of One's Own and Canadian Author's Association - Niagara Branch) and was a finalist in the CBC Literary Awards (ficiton) and Writer's Union of Canada (fiction and creative non-fiction). She lives and writes in Ottawa, Ontario.

Sandra Murdock currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She just competed an MA in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast and hopes that all the poetry in Ireland and Northern Ireland has rubbed off on her. "Subsistence" is her first published poem.

Katie Murphy is a young Vancouver dance teacher, chorographer and award-winning actress. She wrote and performed I Have A Fine Arts Degree, a one-woman show, and her poetry has been published in The Claremont Review. Katie is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.

k. ev nittel has previously been published in Portal, the literary magazine produced by Malaspina University-College. He has recently completed a serial of Ghazals called little reaper. A book-length set of poems about the goddess Isis using forms and free-verse is currently in progress.

Lauro Palomba lives and works north of Toronto. She is a civilian currently teaching English as a Foreign Language to government officials and military officers from Europe, Asia and South America. In the past, she has done stints as a freelance journalist and a speechwriter in Ottawa. To date, she has had about fourteen stories published, or accepted for publication, all in Canada with the exception of two in the United States and one in the Netherlands.

Nicholas Ruddock has had poetry published in The Antigonish Review and The Fiddlehead, as well as fiction in The Dalhousie Review. He won First Prize in The Antigonish Review's 2005 Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest.

Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz is a Bolivian fiction writer and journalist who teaches semiotics and scriptwriting at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. She has published five short story collections: Nombrando el eco (Naming the Echo, 1994); Las bestias (The Beasts, 1997); El dueño de nuestros sueños (The Owner of our Dreams, 2002); Sentir el oscuro (Touching Darkness, 2002) and Contraluna (Against the Moon, 2005). She has also published an erotic novel titled Las camaleonas (The Chameleons, 2002).

Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator, and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana. His short prose and poetry has appeared previously in print and online in such places as New Works Review, Tertulia Magazine, The King's English, Spectacle, The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, and Insights, a publication of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture. His novella A Bride Called Freedom was published in a bilingual edition by Ediciones Nuevo Espacio.

Andrew Stubbs teaches at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. He has been published in numerous literary magazines. He has published 3 books and numerous articles on assorted Canadian writers and writing.

Anca L. Szilágyi's work has appeared in Hotel, Montage, Scrivener Creative Review, Fire With Water, Stationaery, Southern Ocean Review (New Zealand) and on Tangmonkey.com. She has a BA in English literature and archaeology from McGill University and currently teaches English as a Second Language in New York City.

Susan Telfer has an honours BA in English Literature from Queen's University and an MA in Education Philosophy from SFU. She has been writing poetry seriously for over a year.

Michael Trussler has had poetry and short fiction published in such journals as The Antigonish Review, backwater review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Harpweaver, and PRISM International among others. He has also published articles on short story theory and movies in journals such as Arachne and Contemporary Literature.

Peter von Tiesenhausen has lived and worked for twenty years on a remote section of land in Northern Alberta. Much of his practice is carried out on this site. As an artist, he has become recognized for transitory works which incorporate nature and speak of cycles of life and death. His sculptural materials have included willow, aspen and pine trees, pond ice and fire. For von Tiesenhausen, nature is a teacher, forever unpredictable but dazzling in that unpredictability.

Jessica Westhead is a Toronto writer and freelance editor. Her fiction has appeared in Geist, Matrix, Taddle Creek, THIS Magazine, and the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice, and Greenboathouse Books will be publishing her three-story chapbook. She is working on a novel called Pulpy and Midge.