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Vicki Antle holds unergraduate degrees from Memorial University and a post-graduate degree from the University of Aberdeen. She lives in St. John's where she teaches French Immersion. "Giants" is her first published fiction.

Mario Benedetti was born on September 14th, 1920 in Pasa de los Toros, Tacuarembó Province, Uruguay. He is one of Latin America's most highly renowned and beloved authors; he writes (especially) about everyday life in Montevideo. His award-winning collection of stories, Montevideanos: Cuentos (Montevideans: Stories), was published in 1959.

andrea bennett is a member of the Kazoo! artist collective, based in Guelph, Ontario. She has published one poetry chapbook, this pace between us (Burnt Oak Records, 2007), and one comic zine, CHEQUE FILES.

Yvonne Blomer's poetry has won awards and been published internationally in such journals as Stand, The Rialto, The Malahat Review and Grain. Her first book, a broken mirror, fallen leaf was short listed for the CBC Literary Awards and The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize.

Heather Browne is a writer from Inverary, Ontario. Her first book was Knowledge in the Hands (Goose Lane Editions) followed by Where Water and Gravel Meet (Owl's Head Press). She received her MFA degree in poetry from the University of British Columbia.

Dick Capling divides his life between Hamilton and Tobermory. His poetry has been published in the Windsor Review, and both poetry and prose have been published in the McMaster anthology, Main Street. He is an executive member of the Hamilton Poetry Centre.

Antony Christie moves between Ontario and Northumberland, England, working freelance in education and writing. His poetry has appeared in magazines in Britain, Canada and Ireland, most recently The Antigonish Review, Other Poetry and Smiths Knoll, and in two chapbooks, Double Time (with Pam Bridgeman) and Lubenice. His first full length collection of poetry, The Last Will and Testament of John Martinez de Larrume, was published this April by Breakwater Books.

Jan Conn's most recent book of poetry is Botero's Beautiful Horses (Brick Books, 2009). She won the inaugural (2006) Malahat Review PK Page Founders' Award Poetry Prize and a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 2003. She lives in Great Barrington, MA.

John Herbert Cunningham is a Winnipeg-based writer. In addition to The Antigonish Review, he writes reviews in Canada for Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Arc, Fiddlehead and The Danforth Review, and in the U.S. for Quarterly Conversations, Rain Taxi, Rattle, Big Bridge and Galatea Revisits. He is a multi-instrumentalist with the Experimental Creative Music Workshop.

Robert Currie is the Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan for 2007 and 2008. His most recent books are the novel, Teaching Mr. Cutler, and the poetry collection, Running in Darkness, which was a finalist for the 2007 Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award.

Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work in 2008 has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Magma Poetry (UK), and Contemporary Verse-2. His fifth and latest collection of poems, Catching Dawn's Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008. Rocco is a member of the council for the Art Bar Poetry Series and a member of the bpNichol Coordinating Committee, and in his spare time he edits and runs his own website: www.roccodg.com.

Elisabeth de Mariaffi's work has been published in Canadian journals, including CV2, PRISM International, Fireweed, The Fiddlehead and Descant. She was also the recipient of the 2007 Lina Chartrand Award for Poetry. Currently hard at work on her MFA, she sincerely hopes to someday finish her manuscript. Or any manuscript.

Brian S. Dundas was born in London, Ontario. After receiving an undergraduate biology degree at McMaster University, he went on to work as an environmental professional for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, where he is employed today. To date, he has completed a novel, as well as numerous short stories and poems. He has poetry published in Contemporary Verse 2. Brian lives in Newmarket, Ontario, with his wife and two children.

Deirdre Dwyer is the author of The Breath that Lightens the Body (Beach Holme, 1999) and Going to the Eyestone (Wolsak & Wynn, 2002). Currently the coordinator of the Musquodoboit Harbour Farmers' Market, she lives in Musquodoboit Harbour with her husband Hans and Molly, their golden retriever.

Jaime Forsythe is completing an MFA in Creative Writing through the University of Guelph. Her work has appeared in The Coast, Kiss Machine, and Exile. She edited the anthology Transits: Stories From In-Between (Invisible). Originally from Halifax, Jaime currently lives in Toronto.

Camille Fouillard co-edited Tipatshimun, a Labrador Innu community newspaper, as well as It's Like the Legend, Innu Women's Writings. She received the Newfoundland Larry Jackson Writers Award, and has placed second in Writers' Union of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition. She lives in St. John's with Bruce, Esmée and Léo whom she adores.

Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton. Her poetry has been published most recently in Arc, The Malahat Review and the Literary Review of Canada, and is upcoming in The New Quarterly.

Daniel Griffin lives in Victoria, BC with his wife and three daughters. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and have been selected for Coming Attractions 2008. These are the first poems he has published. You can read more of his work (poetry and fiction) at www.danielgriffin.ca.

Adrienne Gruber lives in Saskatoon. She has been published in such journals as Grain, CV2, The New Quarterly, Other Voices and The Wascana Review to name just a few. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and her first book, This Is The Nightmare was published with Thistledown Press in September 2008.

V.J. Hamilton grew up near a village that no longer exists. After sojourns in Canada, the former West Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, V.J. currently calls Toronto home. One of V.J.'s stories was shortlisted for the 2002 Great Canadian Literary Hunt (THIS Magazine) and another appears in the Hart House Literary Review.

Bill Howell is a writer from Toronto, Ontario. He has been published in such journals as Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, Malahat Review, Wascana Review and has publications upcoming in Descant, Nashwaak Review among others. His 21-poem chapbook, Ghost Test Flights (Rubicon Press) was published early in 2008.

Charlie MaGhee Hughes has recently relocated to Vancouver, studying various and sundry media at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston and an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in New York City. This is her first published poem.

Evan Jones was born in Toronto and now lives in Manchester, where he is studying towards a PhD at the University of Manchester. His poems and translations have appeared in various journals in Canada and the UK. His first collection Nothing Fell Today But Rain (Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside), was published in Canada and was a finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2003.

Fiona Tinwei Lam is a Vancouver writer whose work has appeared in several major literary magazines as well as anthologies including Swallowing Clouds (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999), Vintage 2000 (Ronsdale 2000), In Fine Form (Polestar 2000), and White Ink (Demeter, 2007). She is a co-editor of and contributor to Double Lives: Writing and Mothering, published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2008. Her book, Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, 2002) was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. The poem "Walking" is contained in her new collection of poems, Enter the Chrysanthemum (Caitlin Press, 2009).

Cory St. Elmore Lavender hails from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and currently resides in Guelph, Ontario, where he is pursuing graduate studies in English literature. Lavender's work has previously appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, and Queen Street Quarterly.

Kirstie McCallum was raised on a hundred-acre wooded farm in rural Prince Edward Island. She recently spent a month at the Banff Centre Writing Studio before relocating to Vancouver where she now lives. Kirstie has a BA in Contemporary Studies and English from the University of Kings College and an MA in Creative Writing and English from the University of New Brunswick.

Margot Metcalfe is an award-winning photographer who was born in Nova Scotia and who lives in Halifax. Her works are in private collections internationally, and in several permanent public collections. She has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Nova Scotia Culture and Tourism. Her work has appeared in many publications, in calendars, and on book covers. She leads photography and creativity workshops . The book, Arts and the Spirit, published in 2007, contains her essay "Photography and Spirituality".

June Mitchell grew up in Regina in the "dirty thirties" surrounded by depression and drought. It was a happy childhood. After years as a stay-at-home mom with seven kids, she taught more children within the Regina school system. Now widowed and retired, she loves to travel with her dog, sleeping in her mini-van. She writes poetry and short stories. Priorities are her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Vanessa Moeller completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in 2007 after constructing a poetry thesis, entitled Sane Love's Realm, which resembled an Escher lithograph - an impossible and imaginary poetic space built from the materials of language, metaphor and memory. Her work previously appeared in The Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio and was awarded the WFNS's Poetry Prize, UNB's Bliss Carmen Poetry Prize and the Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Memorial Prize for fiction.

Harry Morales is a Spanish literary translator whose translations include the work of Mario Benedetti, Reinaldo Arenas, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Juan Rulfo, Cristina Peri Rossi, Julia de Burgos, and Ilan Stavans, among many other Latin American writers. His work has been widely published in numerous anthologies and has appeared in various journals.

Elise Moser has published short stories and poems in anthologies and periodicals including Descant, Prairie Fire, Grain, PRISM International, The Dalhousie Review, echolocation, Carte Blanche and previously in The Antigonish Review. She is co-editor, with Claude Lalumière, of the short story anthology Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love, and she is also literary editor of The Rover (www.roverarts.com). Her first novel will be published by Cormorant Books in 2009. She lives in Montreal.

T. Marie Nantais lives and writes in Windsor, Ontario. She has an English degree from the University of Windsor.

Catherine Owen has been appearing on the pages of The Antigonish Review for twelve years. Her latest collection is Dog, sonnets written in collaboration with Joe Rosenblatt (Mansfield Press, 2008). Fall 2009 will see her new book Frenzy emerge from Anvil Press.

Patrick M. Pilarski lives in Edmonton. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including PRISM International, Other Voices, Frogpond, Simply Haiku, and on CBC Radio One. Patrick is the co-editor of Daily Haiku, an international journal of contemporary English language haiku. His first chapbook, Five Weeks, was released in July of 2007.

Susan Stenson's most recent collection of poetry, My Mother Agrees with the Dead is available from Wolsak and Wyn. Her new collection, Self-Portrait in a Borrowed Cabin is forthcoming. She will be teaching poetry at Sage Hill, summer 2009. She lives in Victoria where she co-edits, The Claremont Review.

Sheila Stewart's poetry collection A Hat to Stop a Train was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2003. Her work recently appeared in The New Quarterly, Grain and Other Voices and is forthcoming in the Literary Review of Canada.

Wayne Tefs' docu-novel, Be Wolf, was Manitoba Book of the Year for 2007. His novel, Moon Lake received the Margaret Laurence Prize for 2000, and his short story "Red Rock and After" received the Gold Medal for Canadian Magazine Fiction and appeared in The Journey Anthology. "Meteor Shower" is the lead story in a collection entitled Meteor Storm, to be published by Turnstone Press in 2009. Wayne lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son.

Ken Victor has published poems in various journals in both the U.S. and Canada, and has received a National Magazine Award for poetry. He makes his home in the hills of West Quebec with his wife and three children.

Dana Wilde's writings on space, time and the cosmos have appeared in The Antigonish Review and other places, and can be seen at www.dwildepress.net. He lives in Maine, where he is an editor and nature columnist for the Bangor Daily News.

Ian Williams divides his time between Massachusetts and Ontario, where he edits Misunderstandings Magazine. He is a Cave Canem fellow and has held a poetry residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. His writing has appeared in Carousel, Contemporary Verse 2, Descant, The Dalhousie Review, and Matrix.