Issue #
150
Contributors
To Issue # 150
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Miss Julie (Drew, Mississippi) 2007,
photograph by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Sheri Benning's poetry and fiction
has been published in PRISM International, Prairie Fire,
Room of One's Own, The Antigonish Review, and Pottersfield
Portfolio , among others. She has two books of poetry, Earth
After Rain (Thistledown Press, 2001) and thin moon psalm
forthcoming with Brick Books. Her poetry has also been included
in numerous anthologies.
Christine Birbalsingh is a Toronto-based
writer who explores post-colonial issues, including racism, cultural
assimilation, economic exploitation and political injustice in
her fiction. Her short stories have appeared in various journals,
including Canadian Woman Studies, Poui and MaComère
.
Rosemary Blake has published many
poems in Canadian journals such as The Fiddlehead, Grain, The
Antigonish Review, White Wall Review, Room of One's Own, Dandelion
, among others, as well as in various anthologies. She has a chapbook
Aventine (Sixth Floor press) and has recently completed
a graduate degree in Theology.
Brianna Brash-Nyberg's poetry has
appeared in the Malahat Review, the New Pantagruel , and
Boulevard Magazine, and is forthcoming in Room .
She is an MFA student in UBC's Creative Writing program, and lives
in Vancouver with her husband and the world's biggest cat.
Robin Chapman's most recent book,
Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos
(World Scientific, 2005), a collaboration with the fractal art
of physicist J.C. Sprott, won the Posner Poetry Award. Her work
has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Appalachia, The Fiddlehead,
The Hudson Review , and ISLE , among other journals.
Heather Craig lives in Grand Bay-Westfield,
NB with her husband and two cats. She attended UNB where she earned
a B.A. and, later, an M.A. in English Literature. After teaching
in a private school for ten years she has returned to her first
love, writing.
Antony Di Nardo is published widely
in journals across Canada and has two chapbooks, Three Poems
and Speedwell , published by Tibbits Hill Press. You can
also hear him read his poetry at the Blue Note Café in Beirut,
Lebanon, where he lives and teaches at International College.
Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author
of The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press, 2005). His poems
have apeared in Grand Street, Poetry, Tin House, The Best American
Poetry 1997 and 2001 and his live interview with Bootsy
Collins was published in Waxpoetics . Also a photographer,
he has photographs forthcoming in Columbia: A Journal of Literature
and Art . He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the
low-residency MFA program at Lesley University, and lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
Janet Fraser is a Maritimer who
has lived in cities across Canada and in Europe. Her poetry has
been published in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies,
and broadcast on CBC Radio. Her first collection, Long Girl
Leaning into the Wind , was short listed for the Newfoundland
and Labrador Book Award.
Raymond Fraser is the author of
six books of fiction, two biographies and five poetry collections.
His most recent novel is In A Cloud Of Dust And Smoke (Black
Moss Press). A book of memoirs, When The Earth Was Flat
, will be published fall (2007) by Black Moss Press.
Susan Gee is a fourth year fine
arts student at the University of Victoria, working on a double
major in creative writing (poetry) and art history.
Jamella Hagen recently returned
to Canada after spending a year teaching English and Advanced
Writing at the Canadian Language Institute in Seoul, South Korea.
She currently lives in Vancouver where she is completing an MFA
in Creative Writing at UBC. Her poetry has appeared in Grain
and Dandelion .
Brian Henderson is the author of
eight collections of poetry, including a deck of visual poem-cards,
the most recent of which is Light in Dark Objects from
Ekstasis Editions (2000). A new volume, Nerve language
, based on the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, will be released
by Pedlar Press (Toronto) in the spring of 2007.
Andrew Hewitt grew up in Canada
and now lives in England. He has published short fiction in The
Antigonish Review and PRISM International.
Cornelia Hoogland is a poet, playwright
and professor. She is the founder and artistic director of Poetry
London . She has won numerous awards for her writing. Her
new manuscripts include Gravelly Bay and Crow (short
listed for the 2007 CBC Literary Competition).
Crystal Hurdle teaches Creative
Writing and English at Capilano College in North Vancouver, BC.
After Ted & Sylvia: Poems , about, to, and for poets Plath
and Hughes, was published by Ronsdale Press in 2003. She has been
published widely in Canadian journals. The two poems included
in this issue are from a manuscript in progress provisionally
titled Cat Scratch Fever .
Mark Anthony Jarman is the author
of 19 Knives , Salvage King Ya! , Ireland's Eye
, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern , and New Orleans Is
Sinking . He has published recently in The Walrus ,
Canadian Geographic , and The Malahat Review , and
teaches at the University of New Brunswick.
Coralie Hughes Jensen is the author
of seven novels. Lety's Gift and Passup Point have
been published by Lightning Rider Press. Her short fiction has
appeared in magazines and in the anthology, Nobody . A
graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Coralie
lives with her husband in Massachusetts.
Michael Johnson lives and writes
in Bella Coola, BC. He holds a BA in creative writing from Lewis-Clarke
State College. His work has appeared in the Antietam, Clackamas
Literary, Malahat and Southern Review , among others.
James Langer lives in Fredericton,
NB and edits poetry with The Fiddlehead .
Jeff Latosik lives in Toronto. This
is his first published work. He is currently enrolled in the University
of Guelph's MFA program.
Steve Lautermilch , for the last
seven years, has traveled in the far west, exploring the sites
of ancient cultures. In 2006 solo exhibits of photographs were
shown at the Festival Park Gallery in Manteo, North Carolina,
and the Getchell Library of the University of Nevada, Reno. Mirror
Light , a chapbook of poems, appeared from Pudding House Publications
in 2005. New poems and photographs appear in The Connecticut
Review and Kakalak 2007 , where they received first
place.
Alberto Manguel is a renowned writer,
translator, novelist, and editor who was born in Buenos Aires
in 1948, moved to Canada in 1982, and currently resides in the
Poitou-Charentes region of France. The recipient of numerous literary
awards, Manguel is the author of A History of Reading (1996)
and, most recently, The Library at Night (2005).
Lisa Martin-DeMoor's poems have
appeared in a number of journals including Grain, The Malahat
Review , and The Fiddlehead , as well as in the anthology
Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles (NeWest, 2005).
Her first full-length collection is forthcoming with Brindle &
Glass in 2008.
rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, even
though he was born there. A prolific writer, publisher & editor,
2007 sees the publication of two poetry collections. The Ottawa
City Project (Chaudiere Books) and a compact of words
(Salmon Publishing, Ireland), two non-fiction projects, subverting
the lyric , essays (ECW Press) and Ottawa: The Unknown
City (Arsenault Pulp Press) as well as a novella, White
(The Mercury Press).
Don Mulcahy was born in Clydach,
Wales and has been a Canadian citizen since 1969. He writes following
an academic career in dentistry. Previously published in professional
journals, The Edmonton Journal , the CHS Newsletter
, The Prairie Journal, Matrix, Coffee House Poetry , iota
, Verse Afire, fait accomplit , and blood ink .
His 59-author immigration anthology is seeking a publisher. He
founded the new Strathroy Writers' Group this year. He also paints,
and will exhibit for the month of August 2007 at the Strathroy-Caradoc
Public Art Gallery.
Michelle O'Sullivan lives on the
West coast of Ireland. Her work has appeared in numerous publications.
Forthcoming work will appear in The London Magazine, The Southern
Indiana Review, PN Review, Obsessed with Pipework and Rain
Dog . Nominated for The Hennessey Award 2007, she is currently
working on a collection of poetry as well as a collection of short
fiction.
Mike Pacey lives in Fredericton,
NB. He has recently published poems in The University of Windsor
Review, Exile , and The Malahat Review .
Barbara Pelman teaches English at
Reynolds Secondary School in Victoria, BC. She is an active participant
in Victoria's writing community, as a featured reader at Planet
Earth Poetry and a contributor to a number of literary journals.
She has won awards for her glosas and is interested in form poetry's
paradox of freedom within boundaries.
Ian Pople's An Occasional Lean-to
is published in the UK, by ARC Publications. His poetry has been
published in the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of
Books, Poetry Review and elsewhere. He has also been published
in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Leah Rae is a poet and a critic.
She is a regular contributor to Geist Magazine and has
previously been published in The Claremont Review, Room of
One's Own, Antithesis and W49th . She has recently
completed a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies at the University
of British Columbia.
matt robinson's most recent publication
is no cage contains a stare that well (ECW Press, 2005),
a collection of hockey poems. Other recent publications include
tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, 2004), how we
play at it: a list (ECW Press, 2002), and A Ruckus of Awkward
Stacking , which was short listed for both the Lampert Memorial
and ReLit Awards for Poetry.
Jena Schmitt grew up in Sault Ste.
Marie, ON, and now lives in Toronto. Her poems have appeared in
The Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio and Prairie Fire
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Eleonore Schönmaier's poetry collection
Treading Fast Rivers (McGill-Queen's University Press,
1999) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for
best first book of poetry by a Canadian. She has taught advanced
fiction courses at St. Mary's University and creative writing
at Mount Saint Vincent University. Currently she divides her time
between Nova Scotia's south shore and coastal Europe.
Karen Shenfeld was born and raised
in Toronto, ON. She has had two books of poetry published by Guernica
Editions, The Law of Return and The Fertile Crescent
. Her poetry has appeared in numerous Canadian journals, in the
United States, South Africa and Bangladesh.
Kenneth Steven is a full-time writer
from Highland Scotland. It's the land and the people of the land
that are at the heart of all his writing, poetry and prose. He's
published some 20 titles.
Zoë Strachan's has published two
novels, Negative Space (Picador, 2002), and Spin Cycle
(Picador, 2004). 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.
Zoë Wicomb is a South African writer.
Author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, David's Story
and Playing in the Light , as well as short stories in
various anthologies. She currently lives in Glasgow where she
works as Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.
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