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John Wall Barger has been published in The Dalhousie Review, CV2, and Grain. This poem is taken from Hummingbird, an unfinished manuscript of poems inspired by his travels, and is dedicated, with affection, to anyone who has ever woken up in a dysentery stupor in a bamboo beach hut in Goa to the sound of rats, beat the empty bed beside him with his fist, and howled SCRAM!

Yvonne Blomer's poetry has won awards and been published internationally in such journals as Seam, The Rialto, Grain and The Antigonish Review in addition to being in In Fine Form: An Anthology of Canadian Form Poetry. Her first book, a broken mirror, fallen leaf, was short listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 2007.

Per K. Brask is Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg. He has published poetry, short stories, drama, translations, interviews and essays in several journals. He wrote the libretto for Michael Matthew's chamber opera Prince Kasper, 2005.

Lisa Brawn spends 18 hours a day making woodcuts in a plastic bubble in her basement in Calgary. During the other six hours she runs small galleries and alternative project spaces such as Museo Poco diminutive! and promotes the concept of artmobile convoys with a Canadian cultural imperialism objective on her website.

Ronnie R. Brown is an Ottawa writer whose work has appeared in over one hundred magazines and anthologies including: Arc, Geist, Matrix, as well as The Antigonish Review. She is the author of five books of poetry, and her fourth collection, States of Matter (Black Moss, 2005), was the winner of The Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award.

Jamie Bush works at the University of Toronto and has a PhD in English literature. He is also working as a freelance editor and writer. He has published scholarly articles before, but this is his first short story publication.

Brad Casey was raised in Miramichi, had a brief affair with Halifax, but then left for visions of Toronto. People there are often surprised to hear him describe the city as "romantic." Currently he is working beautiful but menial jobs, traveling the country under trivial circumstance as a singer-songwriter, and generally falling for any pretty girl who thinks his ambitions foolish.

Sue Chenette won the Canadian Poetry Association's 2001 Shaunt Basmajian Award for her chapbook, The Time Between Us. Her first full-length collection, Slender Human Weight, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions. A classical pianist who performs and teaches in Toronto, she grew up in northern Wisconsin and has lived in Canada since 1972.

Michelle Deines is a writer of poems, essays, and plays. She has had poetry published in The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and Zygote Magazine, and was recently awarded second place in Other Voices' 20th Anniversary Poetry Contest. Her first play, To the Moon, was produced by Working Spark Theatre in Vancouver in the fall of 2007.

Barry Dempster's work has recently appeared in The New Quarterly, Grain, Saranac Review and The Queen's Quarterly. He has twice been nominated for the Governor General's Award and his last book, The Burning Alphabet, won the Canadian Authors Association Chalmers Award for Poetry. He lives in Holland Landing, Ontario.

Amy Dennis is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program. In 2005 she served on the editorial board for PRISM International. Her writing has been on CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada" and published in an anthology entitled Mainstreet. Her first children's book was released in 2004.

Robin Durnford grew up on the west coast of Newfoundland. She is currently completing a PhD in English Literature at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Deirdre Dwyer is the author of two poetry collections, The Breath that Lightens the Body (Beach Holme, 1999) and Going to the Eyestone (Wolsak and Wynn, 2002). She lives in Musquodoboit Harbour with her husband, Hans, and Molly, their golden retriever. The poems in this issue are from her manuscript Glooscap's Children, about her childhood summers in Blomidon, Nova Scotia.

Karen Enns, originally from rural southern Ontario, is a musician and poet living in Victoria, BC. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review and is forthcoming in Prism International.

joel fishbane is a Montreal playwright and the artistic director of Pumpkin Theatre. His work has previously appeared in Geist Magazine and Armada Quarterly.

Patrick Friesen is a poet, playwright, essayist and translator. He lives in Vancouver and teaches at Kwantlen University College. Friesen has published numerous books of poetry and has written several stage and radio plays. He has just released a new book of poetry called Earth's Crude Gravities with Harbour Publishing.

Daniel Goodwin looks after public affairs for a regional oil company. Previously he worked as a journalist and teacher. His poetry has appeared most recently in The Dalhousie Review. He lives in Saint John, NB, with his wife and two young children.

Vicky Hallett was born and raised in Southwest BC. Albert Spruce Wilson and Remember Albert are her first published poems. Two chapters of her Young Adult novel, Talia and the Wolf, appeared in Chameleon 2007.

alyxandra harvey-fitzhenry has been published in Room of One's Own, Fireweed, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Existere, CV2 and OnSpec. She received an honorable mention in the League of Canadian Poets 1999 Chapbook.

Janis Haswell is Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she directs the Honors Program. She has published three books in the area of literary studies, with two books in progress, and published some 25 articles in both literature and composition. She is currently the Review Editor of The Journal of Teaching Writing.

Niels Hav is a Danish poet and short story writer who lives in Copenhagen. He has published five collections of poetry and three books of short fiction - most recently We Are Here, a collection of poetry (Book Thug, Toronto, 2006). Some of his poems and stories have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and Italian.

Glenn Hayes's poetry has been published in many literary magazines and journals, including The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Descant, Event, and Prairie Fire, among others. His poetry has appeared in two anthologies: Christian Poetry in Canada (edited by David Kent, ECW Press, 1989) and Larger Than Life (edited by Roger Bell, Black Moss Press, 2002).

Sean Howard's poetry has been published in a number of Canadian journals including Geist, Other Voices, existere, and in the anthology A Quiet, Bashful Man, a tribute to the Maritime publisher Malcolm Somerville. Sean is an adjunct professor at Cape Breton University pursuing research interests in nuclear disarmament issues and the history and philosophy of science.

Jim Johnstone's first book, the velocity of escape, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions. He is a two-time winner of the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry and his work has appeared in periodicals such as Contemporary Verse 2, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Grain and The Malahat Review. Currently he edits Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he founded in 2005.

Gavin Keulks is a professor of British literature at Western Oregon University. His poetry has appeared previously in The Merton Journal, and his first novel, titled Flight, will hopefully be published in 2009. As a scholar, he has also published widely on contemporary British authors, especially Martin Amis. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and son.

Rekha Lakra's work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Event Magazine and The Antigonish Review. She was short-listed for the CBC literary prize, and two years ago was awarded the Ontario Art Council's Works in Progress Grant for her collection of short stories.

Valerie Mills-Milde lives in London, Ontario, where she works as a clinical social worker. Her short fiction has appeared in The Nashwaak Review, Prairie Fire Magazine and The Windsor Review.

Elise Moser has published short stories in anthologies and periodicals including Descant, Prairie Fire, PRISM International and The Dalhousie Review, among others. She twice won the CBC/QWF Short Story Competition. She is co-editor of the anthology Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love. She lives in Montreal.

Rebecca Silver Slayter was born in Nova Scotia, but currently lives in Montreal, where she writes and dreams of the sea. She is an editor of Brick, a literary journal.

Andrew Stubbs teaches Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Regina. He has co-edited Rhetoric, Uncertainty, and the University as Text (2008), and The Collected Poetry of Eli Mandel (2001). Also, he has written articles and reviews on Canadian writers and writing.

Yi-Mei Tsiang lives and writes in Kingston, ON. Yi-Mei has published creative writing in The New Quarterly, Room of one's own, Qwerty, Fieldstone Review and Echolocation and some is forthcoming in CV2.

Susan Young's work has been published or is forthcoming in Room of One's Own, Event, Prairie Fire, Poetry Canada, Vintage 97/98 and the anthology, Chasing Halley's Comet. She has just completed her first manuscript of poems, In the room that became a forest. She lives in Vancouver.