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Susan Andrews Grace lives in Nelson B.C. Skin's Edge, second of three long poems, is an imaginary intersection of eastern and western thought. It takes direction from The Enneads by Plotinus, innovator of Platonism, and the I Ching, which like Platonism came out of the fifth century BCE. This year other excerpts of Skin's Edge have appeared in Canadian Literature, Antioch Review and Atlas 02: New Writing, Art, Image an international anthology, in its feature on Canadian writing.

Brian Bartlett's recent found/reconstructed poems, two of which appear in this issue, have also been published over the past two years in Lichen, The Malahat Review and Saranac Review. They form a section in his new manuscript, The Sideways 8. Winner of the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize for his selected poems, Wanting the Day, Bartlett is also the editor of a recent book of prose, Don McKay: Essays on His Works (Guernica, 2006) and one of selected poetry, Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski (Wilfred Laurier Press, 2007).

Charlotte Beck lives and writes on the Indian River, just east of Peterborough, Ontario. She has written columns for the local newspaper and her work has appeared in Other Voices and Write Away. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Roxanna Bennett lives and works in Toronto, Ontario and his studied creative writing at the University of Toronto. Her poems have appeared in Bywords, Women's Education des Femmes and Fiddlehead.

Joe Davies is a University of Toronto graduate and occasional line cook. His fiction has appeared in magazines across Canada, including Queen's Quarterly, Descant, The New Quarterly, Exile, Capilano Review, and The Antigonish Review. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario with his lovely wife and his three very busy children.

Jesse Ferguson is a poet who currently resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is the author of four chapbooks, most recently phoney phonemics (No Press, 2007). He is on the editorial board of The Fiddlehead, and he plays the guitar, mandolin, pennywhistle, bodhran and fiddle with varying success.

Daniel Griffin lives in Victoria, BC with his wife and three children. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Grain, Prairie Fire, Geist, the Massachusetts Review and The Journey Prize Stories 16. He is currently working on a collection of stories about domestic life from the male perspective.

Karen Hibbard has worked in the film, animation, multi-media and print industries. She is a relative newcomer to illustration (4 years) but draws on a 20-year career as a visual artist. She has a M.F.A. from Concordia University. Karen is currently working at the University of Manitoba as an Instructor of Drawing and New Media Design for the School of Art. Please note that Karen was the cover artist in TAR #151, Autumn 2007. Her bio was inadvertently left out of that issue.

Charlotte Hussey, MFA, PhD, teaches creative and academic writing at McGill University in Montreal. Her poems have appeared in Canadian, American and British magazines. She has published a chapbook entitled, The Head Will Continue to Sing and a poetry collection, Rue Sainte Famille, which was short-listed for Quebec's QSPELL poetry award.

Rosemary Kaenel is a retired teacher, and a more or less retired nurse. She was a graduate of Rosary College when four years of St. Thomas was required. She was listed in Who's Who of 2005, and has written both novels and short stories, one of which won third place from the Catholic Press Association.

Carole Langille is the author of three books of poetry and two children's books. This fall she taught Creative Writing: Poetry at Dalhousie University. She's given poetry readings in Delhi, Prague and Athens.

Anne Le Dressay is a previous contributor to The Antigonish Review. Her second poetry collection, Old Winter, was published in 2007 with Chaudičre Books. She has recently had poems published in Queen's Quarterly, Room of One's Own, Contemporary Verse 2, Bywords.ca and the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa Poets.

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. Please note that Lisa's poem has been reprinted from issue #150 in which we made an error. Renate M. Mohr lives in Ottawa, dreams of a world without prisons, and dedicates this story to the memory of her faithful four-legged companion of fourteen years.

Shane Neilson lives and writes in Guelph, Ontario.

Milan Parab has been published in The Fiddlehead, Lichen, and The Prairie Journal. He has adjudicated for The Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards, and The Relit Awards. He teaches and resides in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Irene Perciali is a graduate student completing her PhD dissertation in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Townsend Scholar. Her translations have appeared in the anthology of Romanian poets entitled, Day After Night by Adam J. Sorkin, in International Notebook of Poetry, Apostrof, Metamorphoses and International Poetry Review.

Rebecca Power is originally from Branch, Newfoundland but now lives in St. John's where she works as a copywriter at an advertising agency. When she isn't writing copy to sell things she writes poetry to bare things.

Tim Prior's poetry has appeared in a variety of Canadian journals. His fiction has also appeared in The Heart House Review (1991) and Quarry (2001). These poems are part of a connected sequence of twenty-five long poems entitled Home Pieces.

Peter Richardson has published two collections of poetry with the Signal imprint of Véhicule Press in Montreal. A third collection, entitled Sympathy For The Coruiers, is due out in 2007. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec.

lisa shatzky's poetry has been published in chapbooks, anthologies, journals, and magazines across Canada and the U.S. Several poems were placed as winners in national poetry competitions in 2003 and 2004 and have since been published in books. She is currently working on a poetry collection.

Meredith L. Shoenut is a poet, writer, and teacher, currently living in Illinois. Her poetry is also published in Other Voices and Grain. She is excited to be moving back to her hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba to live, teach, write, and collect her best poems for her first book. J.K. Snyder taught in the English Department at Saint Mary's University. He has published poetry, translations, and reviews in various Canadian and US literary journals.

Adam J. Sorkin's translations have appeared widely. Recent volumes include three books published in the fall of 2006: Magda Cārneci's Chaosmos, translated with Cārneci (Buffalo: White Pine Press), Mihai Urachi's The March to the Stars, mostly with the poet (Bucharest and New York: Vinea Press), and Mariana Marin's Paper Children, with various collaborators (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Press). His book, Marin Sorescu's The Bridge (Bloodaxe Books) won the 2005 European Poetry Translation Prize of the Poetry Society, London. He received an NEA Poetry Translation Fellowship for 2005-2006.

Mitch Spray is a poet from the eastern Saskatchewan parkland currently residing in Saskatoon. The parkland region and his family history figure largely in his poetry as does the family farming operation. At the moment he is pursuing his English MA.

Elena Stefoi is the author of five books, most recently The Starting Line (1996), from which these poems are taken. Other titles include Daily Rehearsal (1986), Sketches and Stories (1989), and A Few Details (1990). Her work has been honored by the Romanian Writers' Union and she was one of the four Romanian poets who appeared in Michael March's groundbreaking Penguin Anthology, Child of Europe. Since the start of 2006, she has been Romania's Ambassador to Canada.

Peter Stuart-Sheppard was born in London, England in 1958 and immigrated to Canada in 1966. He taught English for many years and currently works as a teacher-librarian. He lives in Toronto with his wife Pat and daughters Leah and Sophie. "Field" is his first published work of poetry.

Aaron Tucker is a Masters graduate in Creative Writing and Literature and currently working as a freelancer in Ontario. He is a regular book reviewer for The Danforth Review and inknoire and has upcoming poetry publications in The Windsor Review and MisUnderstandings.

Paul Wadden lives and writes in London, Ontario.

George R. Waldren (1870-1939) operated photographic studios in New Glasgow and Antigonish Nova Scotia from about 1890 until his death at age 69. He provided portraits and documented people, places and events throughout northeastern Nova Scotia. His photographs capture the range of men, women and children at work, play, school, religious celebrations, departing for war, and pursuing a full life during the early 1900s.

Reese Warner's work has appeared in numerous Canadian and US literary magazines, most recently Grain and Feathertale. She has work forthcoming in The Malahat Review.

Tom Wayman spent the 2007 winter term as the Visiting Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He usually teaches at the University of Calgary. A new collection of his poems appeared in spring 2007, High Speed Through Shoaling Water (Harbour), and two collections of his short fiction are also forthcoming.

Amy-Leah White is a writer who makes her living in corporate communications. Originally from Vancouver, she lived in Iqaluit, Nunavut for several years before recently moving to Toronto. These are the first poems she has submitted for publication.

Herb Wyile is an associate professor in English at Acadia University. He is the author of Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (2007), and co-edited The Literature of Atlantic Canada, a forthcoming special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing