Issue 153 Is Online!

search index
of all issues

Search This Site Enter word(s) to search for:

S. Troy Anderson is a writer from Vancouver. Though she has won several competitions in different genres, this is her first publication of literary fiction. She is currently working on a novel and doing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Mary Barnes holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from the University of Waterloo. She lives in Wasaga Beach, Ontario where she is working on a novel.

Kathryn Bjornson is a new writer. She received an M.A. in English from Dalhousie University. She is currently a teacher at Sacred Heart School in Halifax and an editorial assistant for All Rights Reserved, a literary journal published in Halifax, NS. She also spends some of her time taking local writing workshops.

Bob Bossin wrote poetry in the 1960s but was tempted away by the bright lights and big bucks of Canadian folk music. With Marie-Lynn Hammond, he founded the iconic and long-lived Canadian folk group, Stringband, and wrote such songs as The Maple Leaf Dog, Dief Will Be the Chief Again, and Show Us the Length. Latkes is Bob's first short story.

paulo da costa was born in Angola and raised in Portugal. He is a writer, editor and translator living on the West Coast of Canada. paulo's first book of fiction, The Scent of a Lie, received the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region and the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. In Portuguese he has recently published the book of poems, nostas de ropapé - Livros Pé D'Orelha 2005. His poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines around the world and have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.

Jeffery Donaldson lives and writes in Stoney Creek, Ontario. These poems will be part of a collection to be published by McGill Queens early in 2008.

Heidi Garnett's first book of poetry, Phosphorus, was published in 2006 by Thistledown Press. She has been published in a variety of magazines. She won third place in ARC's Poem of the Year, 2006.

Maureen Hynes first book of poetry, Rough Skin, published by Wolsak and Wynn, won the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry, and her second collection, Harm's Way, was published by Brick Books. Her current manuscript, from which these poems are taken, is called The Geometry We Want.

Scott Jamieson has had a delight in words from pre-school days, when he'd pronounce street names to himself (Carling, Bronson), imagining what those words could mean, besides what they did mean. He has had, as well, a life-long attraction to the wonders of solitude, so poetry has suited him. Now he in return attempts to suit poetry.

Eve Joseph was born in 1953 and grew up in North Vancouver. Her first book of poetry, The Startled Heart, was published by Oolichan Press in 2004 and was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Book Prize. She has her M.A. in Counselling Psychology.

Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 in Algarve, Portugal. A professor at Lisbon's Universidade Nova, he served from 1997 to 2004 as the cultural attaché of the Portuguese Embassy in Paris. One of the most important contemporary poetic voices in Portuguese literature he has written more than forty books of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism and drama. His poetry has garnered over a dozen prizes and is translated into twelve languages.

Laura Lechner lives outside of Boston. Her family knows they can find her in the garden when the weather is good. Recent publications include The Mid-America Poetry Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, The Aurorean, and the anthology, Mercy of Tides.

Nanci Lee is a writer, a community development worker and an adult educator. She works for the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her poetry has appeared in Contemporary Verse2, The Fiddlehead and she is working on a book profiling life stories of people working in social change for Fernwood Publishing.

Brent Lennox has been published in Estuary, Filling Station, and The Antigonish Review. Brent Lennox doubles as a geologist and he knows too much about climate change and lakes.

Dave Margoshes is a fiction writer and poet living in Regina. His novel Drowning Man was published in 2003. A new collection of stories, including "The Gift," will be published in the fall of 2007. rob mclennan lives in Ottawa. He is the author of over a dozen trade poetry collections. He is currently editing collections of essays on the works of Andrew Suknaski, George Bowering and John Newlove for Guernica Editions, as well as an issue of Open Letter on young(er) Canadian poets.

Trudy Morgan-Cole is a writer and adult-education teacher in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her latest novel, The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson, was released by Penguin in 2006.

Marta Nelson was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta but has recently relocated to Glasgow, Scotland. She has written for various magazines including Calgary, Inc. and eleventhtransmission.com. This is her first fiction publication.

Catherine Owen is currently writing from Edmonton, AB. Her latest books are Shall (Wolsak and Wynn, 2006) and Cust/detritus (Anvil Press, 2006). A selection from the manuscript "Seeing Lessons" was recently shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards. These "flood-ghazals" are from a new work entitled "Frenzy."

Frances Pelzman has published poetry in The Martha's Vineyard Gazette and nonfiction in The New York Times, Poets & Writers and in many business publications. She has studied with the poet Barbara Helfgott-Hyer and with Rose Solari at The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD. She has four grown children and lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.

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. Her work has been anthologized in From This New World and the forthcoming Best of the Claremont Review. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Arc Poem of the Year Contest.

Ellen Rose holds the McCain-Aliant Chair in Multimedia and Instructional Design at the University of New Brunswick. She writes about the intersection of technology, culture, and education, and her books include User Error: Resisting Computer Culture (Between the Lines, 2003).

Nicholas Ruddock practices medicine in Guelph, Ontario. He has won the Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest (TAR, 2005), the Grain postcard story contest (2006), placed second in Prism International Contest 2006, and has had poetry and fiction published as well in Fiddlehead and in the Dalhousie Review.

Daryl Sneath was raised in a small town called Beaverton. Currently, he teaches high school English, writes, and shares his days with his wife, Tara, in another small town called Port Perry. He returns to Beaverton whenever he can.

Susan Telfer's poems have been published in respected literary journals from coast to coast. She teaches high school and lives in Gibsons, BC, with her husband and three children.

Kate Timmers has studied English at Mount Allison University and Dalhousie University. She and her husband divide their time between Halifax and Austin, Texas. This is her first work to appear in a national publication.

Emmanuelle Vivier is a freelance translator. She is an associate member with the League of Canadian Poets. Her English and French work has appeared in Room of One's Own, The Dalhousie Review, The Harpweaver, The Windsor Review, Quills, Tower Poetry Society (McMaster University), Ascent and Black Moss Press anthologies.

J.A. Wainwright is McCulloch Professor in English at Dalhousie University. He has published several books of poetry and three novels, the most recent of which is The Confluence (Mosaic Press, 2007).

Neal Zirn is an American who has traveled and spent a considerable amount of time in Canada over the last 40 years. He is a chiropractor, an exhibiting artist - painting and printmaking - and has a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies - writing and art. He is soon to be published in Freefall and has been published in Ship of Fools, Open Unison Stop, and Alpha Beat Soup.