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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 .

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.