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Brian Bartlett of Halifax has published several books of poems, most recently the chapbook Travels of the Watch (Gaspereau, 2004) and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems (Goose Lane, 2003), winner of the Antlantic Poetry Prize. He has edited Don McKay: Essays on His Works (Guernica, 2006) and is currently editing a selection of Don Momanski's poems for Wilfred Laurier Press.

Alix Bemrose recently completed a B.A. in English Literature at the University of Toronto. This is her first work to appear in a national publication.

Margret Bollerup lives with her dog, her bird, and her partner in the middle of a wild garden in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. This is the first time she's ever submitted to a magazine, or let strangers read her work.

Coreen Boucher has studied poetry at the University of Victoria, with Evelyn Lau through UBC's Booming Ground and with Patrick Lane at Hollyhock. This is her first publication in a recognized literary format. Currently, she teaches English in South Korea where she lives with a dwindling number of goldfish.

Ronnie R. Brown, an Ottawa writer/broadcaster, has been published in anthologies, magazines and journals in Canada, the US and Australia - including Geist, Arc, CV 2 and The Antigonish Review. She is the author of four books of poetry.

C. Durning Carroll is currently completing a Ph.D. in British Romanticism at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has recently published work in Brooklyn Review, Tarpaulinsky, The Boston Review and Folio. Work is forthcoming in Prism International.

Katherine A. Case is a poet, letterpress printer and former Peace Corps Volunteer whose poetry has appeared in numerous national and international publications. She has received the Mary Merritt Prize for Poetry, the Ardella Mills Prize for an Essay. She is a member of Thicket Press, which publishes fine arts books of poetry.

David Livingstone Clink was born in Alberta but presently lives in Ontario. He recently completed a 3-year term as Artistic Director of the Art Bar Poetry Series (artbar.org) and is the webmaster of poetrymachine.com, a resource for poets. His poetry has appeared recently in Analog, Asimov's, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Grain Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, and On Spec.

Lorna Crozier's Inventing the Hawk, won the Governor General's, the Canadian Authors' Association, and the pat Lowther Awards for poetry in 1992. She has published twelve books of poetry, the most recent Whetstone (McClelland and Stewart, 2005). The University of Regina awarded her an honourary doctorate in 2004 for her contribution to Canadian literature. Presently she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria.

Wayne Curtis lives and writes in New Brunswick. He has been a contributor to several newspapers including The National Post and The Globe and Mail and commercial magazines. Winner of the David Adams Richards and George Woodcock awards, his stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and have been dramatized for CBC Radio and CBC television.

Joe Davies is a graduate of the University of Toronto. His work has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Descant, the New Quarterly and The Antigonish Review. Currently he is working on a collection of stories entitled Something Like Life in Southern Ontario.

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.

Cary Fagan is the author of four novels, two story collections and four kids' books. He is working on a new collection and has had work in Best Canadian Stories and elsewhere. He has just finished a new novel.

Jesse Ferguson is a poet, reviewer, musician and graduate student. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Near Cooper Marsh (Friday Circle, 2005), Old Rhythms (Pooka Press, 2006) and Commute Poems (Thistle Bloom Books, 2006).

Lee Firestone Dunne's poems have appeared in Altadena Review, Bridgewater Review, Comstock Review, Poetry Motel, Smoke Signals, and in Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains. She is currently completing her first poetry manuscript.

Adrienne Gruber is a writer living in Saskatoon. She has been published in Grain, CV2, The New Quarterly, The Wascana Review, and Other Voices, and is an MFA student of UBC's Optional-Residency Creative Writing program. Lately she's been thinking about traveling and rice fields. She has a cat named Ginsberg.

Barbara Helfgott Hyett is a poet and teacher. She has published four collections of poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines including The New Republic, The Nation, Hudson Review, Agni Review, and in 25 anthologies. She is the Director of POEM WORKS: the Workshop for Publishing Poets in Brookline, MA.

Cory Lavender hails from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and has long lived in Halifax. His essay, "Explosive Ruins: The Book in War's Midst," appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of The Antigonish Review. He accredits an ability to cut through bullshit to learning to sling milk at an early age.

Josh Massey's poetry, reviews, and fiction have appeared in magazines such as Grain, Event, Matrix, and The Steps. He is currently working on a documentary film called Herd of Poets and shopping around a manuscript of his tree planting adventure alien novel, Balls Deep in Kapuskasing. An excerpt of this work can be read at canadiantreeplanting.com.

Chris Pannell has two poetry books in print: Under Old Stars (Seraphim Editions) and Sorry I spent Your Poem (Watershed Books). He is presently at work on an anthology of writing from the Hamilton region and plays guitar and bass in The New Phrenologists, a performance poetry duo.

Tim Prior is a Toronto teacher and poet whose poetry and fiction have, since the early eighties, appeared in a variety of Canadian literary journals such as The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, Quarry and Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad.

Mark Rogers has published fiction in The Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly and Aesthetica Magazine (UK). In 2005 he was awarded a grant form the Toronto Arts Council under its Grants to Writers program, based on his novel-in-progress. He lives in Toronto with his wife Sara, son Thomas and two cats.

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of two short story collections, two graphic story collections, a travel memoir and has edited with Linda M. Deane the forthcoming Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology (2006). He is a founding editor of ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados, and has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer, and teacher.

Gillian Savigny is originally from the West coast. She is currently working towards her Master's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a Contributing Editor for Matrix magazine and Managing Editor of Delirium Press.

Jenny Scott has had work published in several literary journals and is the Poetry Editor for Arts Beat Magazine.

Heather T. Shaw has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University. She resides in coastal Massachusetts, where she serves as food editor to New Southerner magazine. She is completing a collection of essays about growing up in Paris.

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, fiction, scientific research reports, computer programs, philosophical essays, and visual art. He is currently working on a book about the similarities and differences of creativity in the arts and the sciences.

J.J. Steinfeld is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives in Charlottetown, PEI. He has published a novel and nine short story collections. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, and his first poetry collection, An Affection for Precipices, will be published by Serengeti Press in 2006.

Ron Stewart is a career pilot first with the RCAF and now with Air Canada Jazz. He lives and writes in beautiful Kilworth which is a small community just outside of London, ON. He has been writing for about 3 or 4 years and up until this point was an unpublished poet.

Royston Tester's linked story collection Summat Else (Porcupine's Quill) was published in 2004. He recently completed a novel, For The English To See and is currently writing a second book of short fiction, You Turn Your Back. His work has appeared in numerous Canadian and U.S. journals.

Tom Wayman's most recent collection of poems is My Father's Cup (Harbour, 2002). A first collection of his short fiction, Boundary Country, is forthcoming in 2007 from Thistledown. He teaches at the University of Calgary, although in Winter term 2007 he will be the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in creative writing at Arizona State University.

Wendy Weseen is a visual artist and writer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She works primarily in mixed media including photography, traditional media (paint and printmaking) and three dimensional assemblage and collage. She is passionate about collecting both ideas and materials, and has a special fondness for women's personal history that is reflected in her collection of photographs and archival materials.

Melinda Price Wiltshire has had poetry and fiction published in The Malahat Review, Grain and The Nashwaak Review. She works in a bookstore and is currently plagued with plotting problems in a novel she's writing to do with Edward Abby.

David Winwood's work has been published in numerous magazines in Canada, the US, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand. His first e-book, ERASMUS IN STEPANAKERT, was recently e-published by, blesok. A trilingual paperback editon is planned for 2007. And the collection was also included on a cd-rom produced by the same (Macedonian) poet, Igor Isakovski, who is the driving force behind blesok.