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Théodora Armstrong lives in Vancouver, BC where she is currently at work on a collection of short fiction. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines such as Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Grain Magazine, Event and The New Quarterly.

Tim Bowling's latest books are the novel, The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press), and the non-ficiton title, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions). He lives in Edmonton, AB.

Trevor Corkum is a graduate of the Humber School of Writing, where he mentored under Michelle Berry. He is currently at work on a collection of linked short stories, a novel, and a manuscript of poetry called Exile from the Big Top. His work has most recently been featured in Grain.

Kevin Couture lives in Victoria with his wife, two amazing daughters, and Rolo the dog. His writing has also appeared in The Fiddlehead.

Rose DeShaw is a midlife woman with a newly discovered Metis heritage, making her a Metis-Jewish-Pennsylvania Dutch possible Dane. Every bit of this history makes her sing.

Kevin Carrizo di Camillo is editor at Paulist Press / HiddenSpring Books. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. His latest books of poetry are Occasionally Yours (& Others), and Why I drive Alfa Romeos (& Other Excuses) both from Typographeum Press. With Rev. Lawrence Boadt he edited John Paul II in the Holy Land (Stimulus Books, 2005).

Rhonda Douglas lives in Ottawa. Her work has been published in literary journals across Canada and overseas. In 2006, she won both the Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for Poetry and Arc Magazine's Diana Brebner Award.

Jesse Patrick Ferguson is the author of 5 poetry chapbooks. He has contributed to Canadian publications such as: Grain, echolocation, the Dalhousie Review, dANDelion, The Antigonish Review, and The New Quarterly. He is a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead, and is a Celtic ballad collector, playing several musical instruments.

Dorothy Field's first full-length book of poetry, Leaving The Narrow Place was published by Oolichan Books in 2004. Her second book, Wearing My People Like a Shawl, is due from Sono Nis in 2008. In her visual art she uses handmade paper for drypoint prints and artist's books.

Janet Fraser is a librarian at UNB, Saint John. She has completed a new poetry manuscript entitled Shiftless. Her first poetry book, Long Girl Leaning into the Wind, was shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards 2001. She writes poetry book reviews for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies.

Adele Graf's poems have appeared in Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Bywords Quarterly Journal and many anthologies. Adele lives in Ottawa, where she devotes her time to writing, singing, her family and her cat.

Helen Guri's work has appeared in various Canadian literary journals including The Fiddlehead, Grain, Arc, and Room of One's Own. She has been a winner of Terry magazine's Annual writing competition, as well as the Hart House Review's poetry contest. She currently lives in Toronto, where she is working on a novel-in-verse.

Julia Herperger lives in Saskatoon. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Arc, Grain, and Room of One's Own. It has also been included in the anthologies Listening with the Ear of the Heart (St. Peter's Press, 2003) and Fast Forward: Saskatchewan's New Poets (Hagios, 2007). Most recently, Julia's work was heard on CBC's Sound Xchange.

Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst started life in Edmonton, Alberta. Since then she's lived in British Columbia, Botswana, Indiana, Michigan, Ontario and Sierra Leone. Along the way she's attended a few universities, picked up a degree in linguistics, sold and exhibited her art, and sold ice cream from a Dickie Dee bicycle. Her work has appeared in Room, fifty3 Magazine and the Greenboathouse book archives.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson has been published in The Harvard Review, The Antigonish Review, Northwest Review, The Boston Phoenix and Verse Daily among other journals. She attended the MacDowell Colony and was recently poet in residence at the Heinrich Böll Cottage in Ireland. Her two chapbooks, Inside the Exhibition and Admit the Peacock are available in local bookstores and online.

David Kootnikoff lives in Hong Kong, but considers Vancouver home. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of BC. Five of his poems were published in An Anthology of International Poetry (Hidden Brook Press, Toronto, 2002). In 2002, he co-edited and wrote a book about teaching in Japan, Getting Both Feet Wet: Experiences Inside the Jet Program, which subsequently won the Japan Festival Award for contributing to understanding between cultures.

Robert Lake is a winner of Event's 2005 creative non-fiction contest. Descant, On Spec, Pagitica, Lichen and others have published his speculative fiction. Fiddlehead, Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, The Nashwaak Review and others have published his "realistic" fiction. He's not quite sure what kinds of fiction his journalism and scholarly articles are.

Jennifer Londry's work has appeared in Grimm Magazine, Leaf Press, Bywords, Yawp, Poetry Night in Muskoka, Capitol Letters, CV2, Queen's Feminist Review, Ottawa Gems, and is forthcoming in a Kingston collective, as well as Prairie Fire magazine. She is active in the Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto writing scenes.

Angela Long's writing has appeared in The Toronto Star, Arc, Fugue, Prairie Fire and is upcoming in several other Canadian literary journals. At the moment, she is living beside a medieval castle with a Sicilian jazz musician learning the poetics of Italian cuisine.

Laura Lush lives and writes in Toronto, ON. Her most recent collection of poems was The First Day of Winter (Ronsdale Press, 2002).

rob mclennan is the author of over a dozen trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He spent the 2007/08 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. He edits/publishes the chapbook publishing house above/ground press, the trade publisher Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), the online critical journal Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater.

Kathryn Mockler has an MFA in creative writing from UBC and a BA in Honours English & Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her writing has appeared most recently in The Danforth Review, Descant, Pottersfield Portfolio, PRISM International, Room of One's Own, Stand Magazine, and The Fiddlehead. Kathryn is currently writing a feature screenplay and working on a collection of poetry.

Daniel Newman is a Toronto-based writer and freelance editor. He has published scientific studies in Oikos and the American Journal of Botany; his poetry has appeared in Vallum and Contemporary Verse 2.

Bibhu Padhi's sixth book of poems, Stories of the Night, will be released this May. His poems and articles have been published in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the English-speaking world. Until early retirement in 2007, he taught English at various colleges in Orissa. He lives in Dhenkanal, a small hilly town in central Orissa, with his wife and younger son.

Rowena Priestley is an abstract artist, poet and songwriter who lives in Vancouver, BC. She has had two books of poetry published by Mellen Poetry Press, USA: Bears & Other Shadows and The Dream That Becomes Us. Both were published under her former name, Martine Silk. She is a member of the British Haiku Society and a recent recipient of the second place prize in the 2007 Art of Music Contest by Piano Press.

Sarah Raymond writes, teaches and mothers in Toronto, Ontario. In 2006, she won the Niagara Branch Canadian Author's Association Competition, and was short-listed for the Surrey (BC) Writing for Young People Award. She is completing a collection of linked short stories for young adults.

Lori Richards works on canvas with acrylic. The process involves layering colour and glaze, then etching lines into the paint and scraping away areas to reveal the underpainting. This all becomes part of the process to uncover or find the final image. Her work reflects various forms of a personal narrative. She want's to make a visual poem, one that has a story but that is also a mystery for each viewer to unravel or create for themselves. Lori lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Laura Rock lives in Lakefield, Ontario with her husband and four children.

Stephen Rowe is a poet and teacher living in Gander, Newfoundland. He has had poems appear in Canadian as well as American publications, with work soon to appear in the United Kingdom.

Nicholas Ruddock has had fiction published in The Journey Prize Anthology 2007, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, sub-Terrain, Prism International. Grain, and upcoming in Event and Exile. He practises medicine in Guelph Ontario.

Ingrid Ruthig has published work across Canada and internationally. Recent projects include the chapbook Slipstream (littlefishcartpress.ca), the poetry collection A History of Falling, Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (forthcoming from Guernica Editions), as well as a collaboration of image and text with Peterborough artist John Climenhage. She lives near Toronto.

Theresa Shea has published poems in many magazines including Grain, Queen's Quarterly, Antigonish Review, CV2, and Matrix. She lives with her family in Edmonton.

Anis Shivani is at work on a book called American Fiction in Decline: Publishing in an Age of Plenty, which analyzes the breakdown of predominant genres of fiction under new conditions of literary production and consumption. Essays appear in The Contemporary Review, Cambridge Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, and elsewhere.

K.V. Skene's publications include Only a Dragon (2002) and A Calendar of Rain (2004), both winners of the Shaunt Basmajian Award, Edith (poems on Nurse Edith Cavell) published by Flarestack (UK) and Love in the (Irrational) Imperfect, launched by Hidden Brook Press in May 2006. A Canadian, K.V. Skene currently lives in Oxford, England.

Rob Taylor lives in Vancouver. He is the co-founder of the poetry magazines High Altitude Poetry and One Ghana, One Voice. His poems have previously appeared, or will be appearing, in a number of magazines with the word "review" in their titles, including Vancouver Review, Nashwaak Review and White Wall Review.

Janet Vickers' poems have appeared in anthologies Shoreline - Water Poems, Down in the Valley, literary journals such as Grain and Sub-Terrain, and online in nthposition. In 2002 her poem, You Were There, won the poetry category of the third annual Vancouver International Writers (& Readers) Festival Short Story and Poetry Contest. You Were There is the

Gillian Wallace has played the French horn and taught university but she prefers writing. Her poetry has been published in the Ottawa Arts Review.

Lucas Warren is a husband, father and sometimes writer, living in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.

Sheryda Warrener has published previously in The Malahat Review, and in the anthology Breathing Fire II. She lives in Vancouver, where she's working toward a Masters in Creative Writing at UBC and co-editing PRISM International.

Cynthia Woodman Kerkham has been published in several collections, including three edited by Patrick Lane, and in literary journals such as Grain, Room of One's Own, Quills and Prairie Fire. In 2005, she was given Honourable Mention in the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award. She has been a featured reader at the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series in Victoria where she lives with her family, teaches writing and sails the coastal waters.