Issue #
149
Contributors
To Issue # 149
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Cover
Family Photo by Brendan Sanderson
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Allan Brown was born in Victoria
and presently lives in Powell River, BC. His poetry has been published
in various Canadian forums since 1962 and is partly collected
in 19 books and chapbooks. His critical writings, mostly reviews,
have appeared since 1976. He has been a frequent contributor to
The Antigonish Review , beginning with the Autummn 1976
issue (#27).
Steve Cameron was born in Antigonish,
NS. He graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 1997 with
a BBA majoring in information systems and minoring in Philosophy
(talk about a dichotomy/dualism... lol). Intro Phil and Phil of
Man taught by George... "the latter being the best, most important
University course I've ever taken." World traveller and philosopher
he is now chillin' in Santa Clarita, California with his wife
Suzie and working on the next great novel.
Sheldon Currie is retired from
St. Francis Xavier University where he taught English. He was
a fiction editor for The Antigonish Review for several
years He has written two collections of short stories, three novels
and three plays. His novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
was adapted as a play of the same name by Wendy Lill and as a
movie it became Margaret's Museum . His play Lauchie
Liza and Rory won the Merritt Award for best play in 2004.
Currently he is writing a novel and a film script based on his
novel Down The Coaltowm Road and waiting for Spring so
he can tend his rock and weed garden.
Stewart Donovan was born in Ingonish,
Cape Breton. He teaches Literature and Film at St. Thomas University
where he founded The Nashwaak Review. Essayist and reviewer,
he is also the author of the comic novel, Maritime Union
(1992) and two collections of poetry Cape Breton Quarry
(1994) and The Molly Poems and Highland Elegies (2005).
Forgotten Worl d, his biography of R.J. MacSween, the founder
of The Antigonish Review , was released in March 2007 by
Cape Breton University Press.
Leo Furey 's poetry, short stories
and reviews have appeared in several literary journals. His first
novel, The Long Run , was published in 2004 by Key Porter
Books.
Michael W. Higgin's, President
of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., is the author of
numerous books, including national bestsellers Power And Peril:
The Catholic Church At The Crossroads and Stalking The
Holy: In Pursuit Of Saint-Making , as well as the award-winning
Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography Of Thomas Merton.
In addition, he is a CBC documentarist, newspaper columnist and
papal affairs analyst for CBC and CTV.
Joe Keogh lives in St. Catherines,
Ontario and has been published in numerous magazines and periodicals.
He is also an aspiring comedian.
Jeanette Lynes is co-editor of
The Antigonish Review. She teaches in the English Department
at St. Francis Xavier University. She has been a writer in residence
at Saskatoon Public Library and Northern Lights College in Dawson
Creek, BC. Jeanette is the author of three collections of poetry.
Her first novel will be published by Coteau Books in 2008.
Eric McLuhan is the author of Laws
of Media and The City as Classroom (both with Marshal
McLuhan). He has taught at the University of Toronto, York University,
Wisconsin State University, and other colleges.
Brendan Sanderson is an artist
who lives in Nova Scotia and who has contributed many covers and
illustrations to The Antigonish Review.
Eric Sanderson , son of George
and Gertrude Sanderson, lives in Toronto, Ontario with his 16
year old daughter Candace. He received an Hons. Bsc. in Human
Biology at the University of Toronto in 1997, and after prolonged
post graduate studies now works as an Acupuncturist and Osteopath
in the Greater Toronto Area. He runs a very successful private
practice and spends his leisure time attempting to become a good
parent, (a significantly more difficult process than academic
study) and studying the art of Hapkido (a significantly less painful
process than being a parent).
Gertrude Sanderson was a member
of the founding editorial board of The Antigonish Review
(1970). Born in London, Ontario, she is a graduate of Brescia
College and the University of Western Ontario. She and her husband
George studied in France and Belgium in the 1960's and returned
to Canada to teach at St. Francis Xavier University. Over the
years she contributed translations of many Quebecois poets to
TAR . Her translation of Jacques Brault's L'en dessous
l'admirable entitled Within the Mystery (Guernica Editions,
1986) received the F.R. Scott Translation Award, 1986. George
(Editor) and Gertrude (Managing Editor) were a team for forty-five
years.
Steve Sanderson, born in Montreal,
graduated in Communications at Concordia University (Loyola College).
He is currently engaged in supervision of social services in Ottawa.
Actively involved in the trade union movement, Steve is 3rd Vice-President,
Ontario Division, Canadian Union of Public Employees (C.U.P.E.).
Peter Sanger is a poet, essayist
and editor who lives in South Maitland, Nova Scotia. He has been
poetry editor of The Antigonish Review since 1985. His
most recent book is the poetry collection Aiken Drum (Gaspereau
Press, 2006).
Anne Simpson writes poetry and
fiction. Her third poetry book, Quick, comes out in spring
2007, and her second novel, Falling , will be out the following
year. She lives with her family just outside Antigonish on a
beautiful piece of land that once belonged to George and
Gert Sanderson.
Sonja A. Skarstedt is writer, painter,
editor and graphics illustrator. From 1987 to 1991 she edited
and published the literary journal Zymergy , and founded
Empyreal Press in 1990. She is the author of a play, Saint
Francis of Esplanade (2001) and four poetry collections. Coracle
Press will publish her new poems, Abundances , as a 2007
on line chapbook.
Reynold Stone is a retired English
professor living in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. He is an associate
fiction editor at The Antigonish Review.
George Thompson worked at Marshall
McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology during the years 1965
until its closure following McLuhan's death in 1981. He came to
the Centre following a position at the Royal Ontario Museum where
he worked with McLuhan collaborator Harley Parker on innovative
museum exhibition design. Mr. Thompson himself was a graduate
of the Ontario College of Art in 1951. During his years with the
Program as McLuhan's administrative assistant, he worked directly
on the layout and design of McLuhan's Counterblast as
well as a deck of cards with pictures and aphorisms. This card
deck was intended to stimulate problem-solving and thinking and
was distributed as part the DEW line publication. He was one of
the original members of the Marshall McLuhan Foundation based
in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, which was established for the electronic
publication of McLuhan's works. He continues his studies and probes
with his many friends.
Tony Tremblay is a Professor of
Canadian and Cultural Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton,
NB. He has published widely in the fields of media, technology,
literary modernism, and film. George Sanderson and R.J. MacSween
were his teachers at St. Francis Xavier University. He has been
on the Editorial Board of The Antigonish Review since 2000.
Patrick Walsh , first Writer-in-Residence
at St. Mary's University College, Calgary, taught at St. Francis
Xavier University for thirty-seven years before joining St. Mary's
in 1999. He has held a Canada Council grant for playwriting; an
international fellowship in Modern Experimental Writing at the
Salzburg Seminar in Austria, sponsored by Harvard University;
and a fellowship in communications from the Wall Street Journal
. He was the original designer of The Antigonish Review
for his mentor Fr. R.J. MacSween. Winner of both the Outstanding
Teacher and Outreach awards at St. Francis Xavier, he has written
ten full-length plays and over 20 one-act plays. His play, Thecla's
Choice , was produced by the National Film Board of Canada
and Teled. His awards include those from the University of Chicago,
the International Festival of Religious Art, and the Canadian
One-Act play competition. His play, Mad Shelley , swept
the awards at the 1977 Dominion Drama Festival. His Louisbourg
Plays , performed at the Fortress, later toured schools in
the Maritimes for two years. He helped Nova Scotia writer Mary
Ellen Tramble produce and edit Listen to the Wind: A Journey
in Schizophrenia . His latest play, based on the book, premiered
in 2004 at Theatre Antigonish. He was founding member of the Playwrights'
Union of Canada, a consultant for Telefilm Canada, and conducted
workshops for the NFB and various producers' organizations. He
has a BA from St. Francis Xavier, an MA in English from Boston
College and a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature from the National
University of Ireland.
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