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Janette Barr lives in Nanaimo, BC. with her family. She is working on a collection of poetry and another of short fiction.

Cory Brown's most recent collection, Poems 1986-1998, is from Water Street Press. His poems have appeared in Bomb, The Chattahoochee Review, Fiddlehead and Northwest Review, among others. He teaches and writes at Ithaca College.

Marjorie Bruhmuller won Honourable Mention in the 2002 CBC/QWF Short Story Competition. Her short story was published in Telling Stories, Véhicule Press. Her poems have been published in The Mitre, Taproot III, Grain Magazine, Event, and Room of One's Own.

Brian Campbell's first book is Guatemala and Other Poems (Window Press, Toronto, 1994). His poetry has appeared in Grain, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire, among others. Undressing the Night, his translation of selected poems of the Nicaraguan-Canadian poet Francisco Santos, has recently been published by Editorial Lunes, Costa Rica.

Sharon Caseburg is a Winnipeg poet and editor. She is a co-chair of the Manitoba Poetry Endowment Fund. Her work has appeared in several Canadian literary journals.

Barry Dempster is the author of nine collections of poetry. His most recent book, The Burning Alphabet (Brick Books), was short listed for a Governor General's Award and won the Canadian Authors Association Chalmers Award for Poetry. He lives in Holland Landing, Ontario.

Karen Enns, originally from rural southern Ontario, is a musician and poet living in Victoria, B.C. She has poetry forthcoming in The Fiddlehead.

John Fell lives in Thunder Bay where he teaches in the Department of English at Lakehead University.

Eric Freeze is an assistant professor of American literature and creative writing. He has published short stories, articles, and reviews in various literary journals and has worked on the editorial board of Quarter After Eight and The Iowa Review. He is from Southern Alberta.

Heidi Garnett has been published in journals such as Event, Room of One's Own, New Quarterly, and CV2. She came third in the Arc Poem of the Year, 2006. Her first book, Phosphorus, was released by Thistledown Press in 2006.

Lisa Gordon has had poems in various online zines including Mipo, Poetry SZ, Writer's Hood, Junket and Syntax. In print, her poems appeared in The Women of the Web Anthology (The Sun Rising Poetry Press, 2005).

Hugh Graham's last book was Ploughing the Seas (Exile Editions), a reporter's memoir about CIA operations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. His short fiction has appeared in the New Quarterly and in Exile. He is also a screenwriter and journalist. He lives in Toronto.

Jamella Hagen grew up in Hazelton, British Columbia, and now lives in Vancouver. She is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at UBC. Her poetry has appeared in Grain and is forthcoming in Dandelion. Meghan Harrison lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario. Her poetry has previously appeared in The New Quarterly.

Carla Hartsfield's work has appeared in a number of journals as well as anthologies including The New Canon (edited by Carmine Starnino) - poets born between 1955-1975, Only The Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (India, Canada, United States), Rampike Ascent Aspirations and Quills.

Paul Headrick teaches literature and creative writing. He has been published in such journals as The Malahat Review, Image, and The Vincent Brothers Review. He lives and writes in Vancouver, BC.

Coralie Hughes Jensen has written book reviews for Bibliophilos and the British literary website . She is the author of seven novels. Her short fiction has appeared in Bibliophilos, QWF, Vermeer, and Nostalgia and two stories will be included in an anthology, Nobody, out later this year.

Desirée Jung is currently working on the translation from the Portuguese into English of selected works by the Angolan writer Gonçalo M. Tavares. Her research interests are Brazilian, Portuguese and Canadian literature, as well as literary translation, film, and the aspects of body and desire represented in various literature.

Carl Leggo is a poet and professor. He is the author of two collections of poems, as well as a book about reading and teaching poetry, titled Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom. His latest book of poems titled Come-By-Chance was published by Breakwater Books in 2006.

Christina Ann McRae works as a freelance writer and editor of scientific and literary texts in Wolfville, NS. Her poetry appears in many publications. In 2001, she was awarded first place in the Atlantic Writing Competition for poetry.

Ricardo Pau-Llosa has recent or forthcoming publications of poetry in Alimentum, Ascent, Bellingham Review, Boulevard, Clackamas Literary Review, Iowa Review, Margie, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, and TriQuarterly, among others.

D.C. Reid is the author of seven published books, including poetry, a novel, non-fiction sport fishing and literary non-fiction. He has been published in virtually all the literary magazines in Canada and some in the U.S., Great Britain, Mexico and India. His work has been translated into Spanish and Hindi.

Betsy Rosenwald is a painter and book designer living in Saskatoon. Exhibitions of her work include Salvage (2005) at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, YT and Still Remains (2006) at the Art Gallery of Regina. Pliny's Knickers, a collaborative book project for JackPine Press (with writers Hilary Clark and Steven Ross Smith), won the 2006 bp nickel Chapbook Award. Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of two short story collections, two graphic story collections and a travel memoir. 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.

Claire Sharpe's poetry has appeared in a number of UK magazines, including Obsessed With Pipework, Dream Catcher, Staple, Magma, Pulsar, South and Oxford Magazine. She returned to Canada in 2005 after 6 years in England.

Sandra Stephenson recently co-founded Poets Against War, Canada (www.poetsagainst.war.ca), with Sam Hamill (co-founder of Copper Canyon Press) and Art Joyce, a poet in British Columbia. In 2005, she received the WCTCHA poetry prize, with publication in Crosscurrents, from Washington State Colleges Humanities Association.

Anna Swanson lives in Vancouver and works in an Alberta fire tower during the summer. Her poetry received an honourable mention for the 2004 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, and has appeared in various journals including Grain, ARC, CV!!, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and The Antigonish Review.

Gonçalo M. Tavares is a young accomplished poet in Europe who has published more than a dozen books, including poetry, drama and fiction, which has yet to be published in Canada. He has been translated into French and Italian and was the winner of LER Award in 2004, one of the most important Portuguese Awards for new writers, as well as the José Saramago Award in 2005, among others.

John Terpstra has published eight books of poetry, the most recent being Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2006). An earlier work, Disarmament, was short-listed for the Governor General's Award. He recently completed a tenure as Writer-in-Residence at McMaster University.

Diane Tucker was born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches, was published by Nightwood Editions in 1996. More than a fourth of her poems have been published in journals such as The Dalhousie Review, Prism International, The Harvard Review, Canadian Literature, Descant and TickleAce.

Eric Wainwright is currently finishing an honours degree in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. He was recently awarded first prize in the Clare Murray Fooshee Poetry Contest.

Dana Wilde's essays and stories have appeared in the North American Review, The Quest, Exquisite Corpse, Mystics Quarterly, and other publications in addition to The Antigonish Review. He lives in Maine, where his bimonthly column reflecting on Earth and places beyond appears bimonthly in the Bangor Daily News.