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John Barton has published many poetry books, including: Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis, Hypothesis and Asymmetries. He is co-editor (with Billeh Nickerson) of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. He has won many awards including an Ottawa Book Award, and a CBC Literary Award. He is the editor of The Malahat Review.

David Bergen is the author of four novels: A Year of Lesser (a New York Times Notable Book), See the Child, The Case of Lena S., The Time in Between, and Sitting Opposite My Brother (short stories). Awards include: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Governor General’s Award for fiction (finalist); and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Retreat, his new novel, will appear in 2008.

Di Brandt [www.dibrandt.ca] has published six books of poetry, including the award-winning collections questions i asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; and Jerusalem, beloved. She has also published three books of creative essays, including most recently, So this is the world & here I am in it (NeWest Writers as Critics series X, ed. Smaro Kamboureli). Her poetry has been adapted for music, installation, radio, television, dance and film. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in English at Brandon University, Manitoba.

Nicole Brossard is a leading French-Canadian award-winning formalist poet and novelist. Her poetry books include: Daydream Mechanics, Lovhers, Typhon Dru, The Museum of Bone and Water, and Installations. Her novels include: Picture Theory, Mauve Desert, and Baroque at Dawn. She lives in Quebec.

Barbara Cansino is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She has written for El Pais, The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Winnipeg Free Press, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and Chatelaine. She has also written theatre documentaries—The House of O’Neill, Great Prisoners, Feiffer’s Folks—and has just completed The Last (Gourmet) Supper: I Read, Therefore I Cook, a food memoir.

Ian Colford is a fiction writer and works as head librarian at Dalhousie University. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship for his writing.

Susan Ellenton is a multimedia artist whose works are housed in private galleries in USA and Canada. She has held innumerable shows over her artistic career. She is also an accomplished musician, composer and recordist having founded the Authentic Voices school of music.

Katherine Govier’s latest novel is Three Views of Crystal Water(HarperCollins Canada/Fourth Estate, London). Her previous novel, Creation, was a New York Times notable book of 2003. Katherine spends her time in Toronto and in Canmore, Alberta, in the Rocky Mountains.

Susan Andrews Grace is a writer and artist whose third collection, Flesh, A Naked Dress, appeared last year. Her new book, Love & Tribal Baseball will appear this year. Other published titles include: Ferry Woman’s History of the World (Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, 1998), Water is the First World (1991) and Wearing My Father (1990). Grace lives in Nelson, BC where she teaches creative writing and maintains a visual art practice.

Veryan Haysom was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada in 1968. A lawyer based in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, he has been published in Atlas and Ascent Aspirations Magazine (Anthology Three, 2007).

Peggy Herring’s fiction appears in literary journals such as Atlas, The Antigonish Review, and Prism international, and in her first chapbook, Lima Bean and other Short Prose (Bada Talaab Press). Recipient of several awards, including the Eleanor Abram Prize for Fiction, she divides her time between Victoria and New Delhi.

Alexander Hutchison’s poems can be found in Deep-Tap Tree (University of Massachusetts Press), The Moon Calf (Galliard), and Carbon Atom (Linklight). Scales Dog, a new and selected, is due from Salt Publications later in 2007. Salt has also recently published an interview with him in Don’t Start Me Talking: Interviews with Contemporary Poets.

Paulette Jiles is a poet, memoirist and novelist. She is the author of innumerable books, including: Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (OUP); Cousins, a memoir; and the bestselling novel Enemy Women. Her second novel, Stormy Weather, appears this summer from HarperCollins.

Carole Glasser Langille has published three books of poetry and two children’s books. She has been nominated for The Governor General’s Award for poetry, The Atlantic Poetry Prize and one of her children’s books was selected “Our Choice” by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She lives in Nova Scotia.

Dave Margoshes is the author of twelve books, including three novels. He has published in magazines and anthologies throughout North America, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. His new short story collection is titled Bix’s Trumpet & Other Stories. His awards include: the City of Regina Writing Award, John V. Hicks Award for Fiction, and the Stephen Leacock Prize for Poetry.

Kim Morrissey’s books include Batoche, Poems for Men Who Dream of Lolita, Dora: a Case of Hysteria and Clever as Paint: the Rossettis in Love. Mrs. Ruskin is forthcoming from Aark Arts. Kim is writer-in-residence for the West Euston Third Age Project and West Euston Time Bank Purple Poets in London.

Elise Moser’s stories have appeared in anthologies, magazines and literary journals, and been broadcast on radio. She is co-editor, with Claude Lalumière, of the anthology of short fiction, Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love. She lives in the postal code area of Montreal said to have the highest concentration of artists in the world.

Brenda Niskala is the executive director of the Saskatchewan Publishers’ Group. She is a poet and fiction writer, and the author of Ambergris Moon, and Emma’s Horizon. She is also the co-author of Open 24 Hours.

Uma Parameswaran was born and educated in India, and later emigrated to Canada. She has many publications on postcolonial and South Asian Canadian literatures and nine volumes of creative writing, including the Jubilee Award winning What was Always Hers for the best collection of stories to be published in Canada in 1999.

Alison Pick’s first collection, Question & Answer, was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. Her first novel, The Sweet Edge, was Globe and Mail ‘Top 100 Book of 2005’ and has been optioned for film by Four Seasons Productions in Toronto.

Robert Priest is a poet, novelist, singer, and children’s writer. His poems and songs are widely played on Sesame Street, and his award-winning children’s plays include: Minibugs and Microchips and Knights of the Endless Days. As a songwriter, he has worked with Alanis Morissette, Alannah Myles, Melanie Dane and Tom Cochhrane. He lives in Toronto.

Marilynn J Rudi has been writing poetry seriously for the past four years, after abandoning it for almost twenty. She works as the archivist/librarian at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Jaspreet Singh is the author of Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir (Montreal: Esplanade/Vehicule & New Delhi: IndiaInk/Roli), which won the Quebec 2004 Best First Book Prize. He is currently the Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Heather Spears is a writer and artist who has held over 75 solo exhibitions, published 11 collections of poetry and 3 novels of speculative fiction, The Moonfall Trilogy. She has 6 books of drawings and poems: Drawn from the Fire, Massacre, Line by Line, Drawings from the Newborn, The Panum Poems, and Required Reading. Most recently, she has published a novel of documentary crime fiction, The Flourish. She lives in Denmark.

Todd Swift has published four books of poetry, the latest being Winter Tennis (DC Books, 2007) and edited anthologies, such as 100 Poets Against the War (Salt, 2003) and Babylon Burning: 9/11 Five Years On (NthPosition, 2006). His poems have recently appeared in the Guardian, Jacket, Poetry Review, Matrix and Atlas. He is poetry editor of the e-journal, NthPosition.

H Masud Taj [www.taj.ca] has read his work to a wide-ranging audience in India, Europe and America. He was a featured poet in Ottawa Public Library series (2006), University of Toronto’s Hart House Library Reading Series (1999), and Wespennest anthology (Austria 2006) on contemporary Indian poets. He is an architect, teacher and poet, and lives in Canada.

Phoebe Tsang [www.phoebetsang.com] was born in Hong Kong, grew up in England, and has been in Toronto since 1998. Her first chapbook, Solitaires (2006), will be joined by a second one this fall. Her poetry appears in Atlas, High Altitude Poetry, Words On Paper and Inscribed. A professional violinist, she has performed worldwide, and on MTV and CBC Radio.

Fred Wah’s book of prose-poems, Waiting for Saskatchewan, received the Governor-General’s Award in 1986. Other books include: So Far and Diamond Grill, and his forthcoming chapbook in 2008 is titled Isadora Blue. He has also been involved with two magazines: Open Letter and West Coast Line.

Meg Walker is a visual artist and writer currently based in Vancouver, BC, carrying lingering admiration of Montreal after spending three years living there. Visual art includes chalkwork, oil painting, ink drawing, and sculpture; and writing includes short fiction, performance poetry, professional writing about art and literature, and other communications jive.

Patrick Woodcock is the author of six book of poetry. His seventh, Forgive The Host Then Bury Him is due for publication in Belgrade. His story about living in Iceland entitled ‘The Ballet of Patrick Blue-Ass’, was published in the anthology AWOL by Vintage, Canada. He was the poetry editor for The Literary Review of Canada for two years.