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Lee M. Abbott, a student and activist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, where he completed a B.A. in English: Writing & Culture, started working on an M.A. in English: Modern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last fall.

ShirLee Adamson, Multimedia artist, was born and raised in the Chicago area in the State of Illinois. She always loved to sketch, draw and dance. One of her majors in high school was Art. When she married Albertan, Martin Adamson, she moved to Edmonton and became involved in musical theatre, then on to her own dance troupe, performing for the Grey Cups, Klondike Days, and Klondike Days promotions around Canada and the U.S. She began taking courses in oils, acrylics and more recently watercolours as well as dyes on rice paper. Dyes on silk are self taught. Recent workshops were with Ron Ronson of England, Suellen Ross of Seattle, Linda Kemp of Toronto, and the Woebley Art Centre with Bob Kilvert, in Herefordshire, England. This particular painting was done while at Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, and she learned about the heartbreaking fate of Kaho'olawe Island, since 1941. Because it is still riddled with land mines and war bomb shells, she could only paint it from afar. Active member of the Society of Western Canadian Artists, and Artists in Canada.

Teruko Anderson-Jones lives on a farm in Ontario. These poems are from a new manuscript entitled, Dark Field s. She has two previous collections of poetry.

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. 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.

Michael Blouin has had work published in Grain, Queen's Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Event, In/Words, Arc, Descant and The New Quarterly . He is the recipient of the 2003 Diana Brebner Poetry Prize from Arc Magazine and the 2005 Lillian I. Found Prize from Carleton University. His collected poetry words of a minor poet is forthcoming from Pedlar Press. Robert Colman is a writer and editor based in Newmarket, Ontario. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Malahat Review, Arc, and CV2.

Jan Conn 's sixth book of poetry is Jaguar Rain (Brick Books, 2006). She is a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, in Albany, NY and travels frequently to Latin America. She currently lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Guy Ewing lives in Toronto. Two of his poems will appear in a forthcoming issue of Jones Av ., and a series of his poems appeared recently in Literacies.

Linda Frank was born in Montreal but now lives in Hamilton, Ontario where she teaches in the social sciences at Mohawk College. Her first poetry book Cobalt Moon Embrace appeared in late 2002 from Buschek Books. These poems are from her second manuscript, a book of poems on Frida Kahlo that hopes to wrest Frida back from the clutches of Hollywood.

Edward Gates is a blueberry farmer, karate instructor and poet living in Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick. He has two books published: The Guest Touches Only Those Who Prepare (Owl's Head Press, 1991) and Seeing The World With One Eye (Broken Jaw Press, 1998). He has a book Heart's Cupboard due this fall from Broken Jaw Press.

Marilyn Gear Pilling is the author of two collections of fiction: My Nose Is A Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (Cormorant 1996) and The Roseate Spoonbill Of Happiness (Boheme 1992) and one collection of poetry, The Field Next To Love (Black Moss, 2002). She lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Kimberley Gilmour lives and writes from Cardiff, Ontario.

Aaron Giovannone has studied literature and writing at Concordia University, Montreal, and at the University of Calgary. His poetry has most recently appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, dANDelion and Descant ; he also reads and reviews for Calgary's filling Station magazine. Currently Aaron teaches at Niagara College in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Desmond Graham 's sixth collection Heart work is due out in 2007. He delivered the 2005 Bloodaxe Lectures at Newcastle University (forthcoming from Bloodaxe) where he is now Emeritus Professor of Poetry.

Allison Hack lives in Winlaw, BC. She has recently been published in PRISM International and The Fiddlehead.

Julie Hartley is the author of more than a dozen plays, a fiction writer, poet and teacher. She was born in Lincolnshire, England, and has lived in Toronto for the past 12 years. She is currently working on a book-length collection of poetry entitled Flying Backwards with Pelicans.

Kevin Higgins' first collection The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon Poetry in 2005. In 2005 he was also short listed for the Hennessy Award for Poetry and awarded a Literature Bursary by the Irish Arts Council. He previously had poems published in The Antigonish Review #137.

Harold Hoefle's short fiction has appeared in Canadian journals and anthologies, most recently in The Windsor Review, Kiss Machine, Grain, and Véhicule Press' Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love . He lives in Montreal.

Laurence Hutchman teaches literature at the Université de Moncton in Edmundston. He has published six collections of poetry: The Twilight Kingdom, Explorations, Blue Rider, Foreign National, Emery and Beyond Borders . In 2006 Guernica Editions will publish his "Selected Poems."

Joel Katelnikoff is a robot at the University of Alberta. His patron, Jill Clarisse Connell, is at the University of New Brunswick, where they first met. In Summer 2006 they will ascend the elevator, leaving behind notes on Moon Tigers, Wrestling, Palindromes, and Buddy Holly.

Erin Knight's writing has appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review, Event, and The Fiddlehead . She has also been published in the anthologies Edmonton on Location (NeWest 2005) and Talk that Mountain Down (littlefishcart 2005). She is from Edmonton but has recently moved from Fredericton to St. Catharines, Ontario.

Susanne Kort lives and writes in Jalisco, Mexico. Her work (prose, poetry, translations) has appeared in, or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Indiana Review, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, SunDog, Malahat Review among others. In 2004, a collection of poems, Yang, was a finalist in the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series sponsored by Ïeiades Press. Marjorie Kowalski Cole 's fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Grain, Room of One's Own, Chattahoochee Review, and others. She has won poetry and fiction awards. Her first novel, Correcting the Landscape, received the 2004 Bellwether Award and was published in January, 2006.

Alice Kuipers lives in Saskatoon by the river. She is working on a novel for children.

Kristina Leidums currently lives in Huntsville, Ontario, and will be attending teacher's college at Lakehead University this upcoming year. In 2005 she participated in the Huntsville Festival of the Arts' Poetry Café, and was subsequently published in Fringe Festival Poetry: Poems from the Poetry Café.

John Lofranco coaches Concordia University's cross-country team. Aerobic Capacity, a series of poems about running, will be published by Frog Hollow Press in 2007.

Donald McGrath is a Montreal-based poet, short-story writer and translator. He has had work in a wide variety of Canadian periodicals and reviews. He has published a volume of poetry, At First Light (Wolsak and Wynn) and is currently looking for a publisher for a second poetry manuscript and is completing a collection of stories.

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, even though he was born there once. The author of twelve poetry collections, most recently name , an errant (Stride, UK) and aubade (Broken Jaw Press), a collection of his essays will appear in 2007 with ECW Press. He often reviews and rants on his increasingly clever blog - www.robmclennan.blogspot.com .

Steve McOrmond 's poetry has appeared in literary journals across Canada, Australia and the UK. His work also appears in Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets (Nightwood 2004). His first book of poetry Lean Days (Wolsak and Wynn, 2004) was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. A second collection entitled "Primer on the Hereafter" is forthcoming in 2006.

George McWhirter lives in British Columbia. He has published numerous books of short stories, poetry, novels and books of translation.

Natalie Meisner is a playwright, poet, and fiction writer originally from Nova Scotia. Her plays have been produced across Canada. She has edited both PRISM International and Dandelion and currently serves as a Poetry Editor of the Wascana Review .

Blaise Moritz lives in Toronto. His poems have appeared recently in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and Grain . His first book-length collection will be published in spring 2007 by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

Julie Paul is a writer, massage therapist and mother living in Victoria, BC. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She has never won a raffle.

Karen Schindler lives in London, Ontario. She is a part-time student at the University of Western Ontario and co-director of the Poetry London reading series.

Jennifer Selk is a Vancouver-based magazine writer. She is currently the Arts and Culture editor of ION Magazine, and sits on the board of the Western Magazine Awards Foundation. "Carriage" is her first published work of poetry.

David Solway lives in Quebec. He 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 .

Ken Stange is a writer, visual artist, and university lecturer. He works in many forms and likes to mix his media. His published works include poetry, ficiton, scientific research reports, computer programs, philosophical essays and visual art. He lives in North Bay, Ontario.

Sheila Stewart lives in Toronto, Ontario. Her poetry collection A Hat to Stop a Train was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2003. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as the Antigonish Review, Descant, Grain and The Malahat Review .

Zoë Strachan was born in 1975 and grew up in Kilmarnock. She gained an MLitt in Creative Writing from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1999. Her first novel, Negative Space (Picador), was published in 2002. It won a Betty Trask Award and was short listed for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. In 2004 she received a Hawthornden Fellowship. Her second novel, Spin Cycle (Picador), came out in 2004 to critical acclaim and was released in paperback in August 2005. She has published short stories in literary magazines in Britain and abroad as well as extensive newspaper journalism, and has contributed to various radio programmes. Her first radio play, One Small Step, was broadcast on Radio 4 in August 2005 and performed at Oran Mor in Glasgow. For the past three years she has been a tutor on the MPhil in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In autumn 2006 she will be UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and then (having been awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writers' Bursary) she will be taking a year off from teaching to concentrate on writing her third novel, from which "Play Dead" is taken.

Dexine Wallbank is a professional violinist who lives and works on Vancouver Island.

Russell Wangersky is a writer and editor from St. John's, Newfoundland. His work has appeared in PRISM International, Prairie Fire and Grain, and his first collection of short stories, The Hour of Bad Decisions, has just been published by Coteau Books. He is now working on a non-ficiton project for Thomas Allen Publishing.

Susan Wolff is a Canadian who, since the age of 12, has lived and/or worked in India, Nigeria, Egypt, The United States, Peru, West Bank and Gaza and Germany.