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Notes on ContributorsLORI MALEEA ACKER is completing an MFA in Victoria. She travels widely and spends the summers in a fire lookout in northern Alberta. In 2004, she will attend In the Field, a program in poetics, environmental thought and contemplative philosophy. Her work has recently appeared in Ascent, Navigaciones Sur and her chapbook Notikewin (Junction Books, 2003). MICHÈLE ADAMS is a Vancouver writer. Her screenplay Beachbound recently won the CBC/BC Film Signature Shorts Competition, and her adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel, Lady Susan, is in development as a feature film. Currently, she’s working on a novel, Trojan Husbands, a short fiction collection and several film projects. ANAR ALI is a second-year MFA in Creative Writing student at UBC. Her fiction has been previously published in filling Station. KIM AUBREY grew up in Bermuda but currently lives in Toronto. She is a previous contributor to Event. Her work has also appeared in Pagitica, The Berkshire Review and The Literary Review of Canada. An essay, ‘Driving Through Munro Country,’ is forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly. ELIZABETH BACHINSKY’s poems have appeared most recently in The Malahat Review and subTerrain. Her work will appear in upcoming issues of Prairie Fire, Arc, Room of One’s Own and The Antigonish Review. She lives in Vancouver. MIKE BARNES has published four books: Calm Jazz Sea (Brick Books, 1996), short listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; Aquarium (Porcupine’s Quill, 1999), winner of the Danuta Gleed Award; The Syllabus (PQ, 2002), a novel; and Contrary Angel (PQ, 2004), a second collection of stories. MICHAEL BLOUIN lives in rural eastern Ontario. His work has been published in various journals and has been short listed for the National Magazine Awards, and he recently won the Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry. He is currently at work on a novel entitled alternately We shall all be forgiven, Lucky Dog or walking home, with wings, depending on his mood. SHANE BOOK is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. He holds graduate degrees from New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The winner of Grain’s 2004 Short Grain Contest, he has poems forthcoming in various journals and the anthology Breathing Fire II (Nightwood Editions). BRAD BUCHANAN is a native of Windsor, ON, and a graduate of McGill University. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Grain, Descant, The Dalhousie Review and The Antigonish Review. JUDITH CASTLE teaches at Concordia University in Montreal. She has given poetry readings at Galerie Shorer and for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her work has appeared in Fiddlehead, and her photographs were exhibited at the Luz Gallery in Montreal. One of her artistic aims is to capture some trace of everyday life’s immense radiance. JAN CONN’s most recent book of poetry is Beauties on Mad River (Véhicule Press, 2000). Her recently completed poetry manuscript, Jaguar Rain, concerns the Amazonian botanical illustrator and explorer Margaret Mee. She won second prize for poetry in the 2003 CBC Literary Awards. She lives in Great Barrington, MA. BARRY DEMPSTER’s New and Selected, The Words Wanting Out, was published in 2003 by Nightwood Editions. He will be Writer in Residence at the Richmond Hill Public Library from February to June 2005. NICOLE DEXTRAS graduated from the Emily Carr College of Art where she developed a penchant for alternative processes. Her style is mixed media photography and sculpture. She has had several exhibitions of note; her photographs have been featured in national publications. She lives in Vancouver, and is represented by the Rebecca Gallery in Toronto. ALVIN G. ENS writes poetry and short stories. He has published a book of religious verse, Musings on the Sermon (Ensa Publishing, 2002). He is frequently featured in religious periodicals, and has been short listed several times by Word Guild and once by the Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian chapbook contest. LIZ GONTARD’s poetry has appeared in Ice Floe and Poetry in Transit in Whitehorse, YT. Her fiction has been included in Urban Coyote: A New Territory (Lost Moose Publishers, 2003) and the art and literature magazine Out of Service. She lives in Vancouver and is currently enrolled in the Master of Publishing program at SFU. MELANIE JASMINE GRANT lives in Halifax where she studies literature and creative writing at St. Mary’s University with a scholarship from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review and are forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. NICOLA HARWOOD is a writer and performance artist. She has had work published in Geist, Fireweed and others. Her scripts have been produced in San Francisco, Victoria and Nelson, BC (where she lives). She is currently working on an installation (art) and her patio (also art, but heavier). GERALD HILL is a writer, parent, editor and teacher in Regina. Spotted Cow Press published his third poetry collection, Getting to Know You, in 1993. He is currently the poetry editor of Grain. GILLIAN JEROME lives in Vancouver. Her work has been published in the US and Canada. A selection from her manuscript is forthcoming in Breathing Fire II (Nightwood Editions). CARL LEGGO has published two books of poems with Killick Press, Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill (1994) and View from My Mother’s House (1999). He is an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC where he teaches courses in writing and narrative inquiry. SHAWNA LEMAY is the author of Against Paradise, All the God-Sized Fruit and Still (a self-published affair). Her next book, The Blue Feast, is coming out with NeWest Press. She lives in Edmonton with her husband, Robert Lemay, a visual artist, and their daughter Chloe. MARÍA ROSA LOJO was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. ‘Té de las cinco’ appears in Esperan la mañana verde (Francotirador, 1998). Other English translations of her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Chelsea, The Saint Ann’s Review, Stand, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, Artful Dodge and Place Quarterly. TIM McNAMARA is a Professor of English at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. BLAISE MORITZ lives in Toronto. His work has appeared most recently in PRISM international, Queen Street Quarterly and Echolocation. LIZA POTVIN is the author of White Lies (for my mother) (NeWest Press, 1992), The Traveller’s Hat (Raincoast Books, 2003) and Cougarman Percy Dewar (Caitlin Press, 2004). She lives and teaches in Nanaimo, BC. BRETT ALAN SANDERS is a teacher, writer and translator residing in Tell City, IN. His novella, A Bride Called Freedom, was published in 2003 in a bilingual edition (Ediciones Nuevo Espacio; www.editorial-ene.com). His fiction and essays have most recently appeared online at The King’s English and New Works Review. ELEONORE SCHÖNMAIER is the author of Treading Fast Rivers (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. MELANIE SIEBERT, originally from Saskatchewan, now lives in Victoria where the rivers run all winter. She is a fourth-year student in the UVic creative writing program and has had poems published in Geist, The Malahat Review and This Side of West. In the summer she works for Nahanni River Adventures as a wilderness river guide in Nunavut and the NWT. D. C. SMITH’s stories and poems have appeared in various publications in the US and Canada over the past 35 years. A graduate of UBC, he now thrives (and writes) on Hornby Island, BC, in enviable peace and quiet. PAULA STEVENS is a graduate of York University’s Creative Writing and English program. She is currently completing a collection of poetry. SARA THOMAS is a freelance writer who has just moved back to her hometown of Silver Spring, MD, after living in the southwestern US for 13 years. Her work has appeared in Oysterboy Review, Pig Iron Malt, Conceptions Southwest and Blue Mesa Review. DAVIDE TRAME lives in Venice, Italy, and teaches English outside the city. He started writing poems exclusively in English in 1993. His works have appeared in Europe and the US in Stand, Orbis, The Shop, Poetry Salzburg Review, Sierra Nevada College Review, The Blind Man’s Rainbow and Chaffin Journal among others. MICHAEL TRUSSLER teaches English at the University of Regina. He has published poetry, short fiction and literary criticism in a number of journals. JOHN VIGNA is a Vancouver copywriter. He is currently at work on his book, Travels with the Tabla: A Musical Journey Across India. STEPHEN B. WILEY resides with his wife, Judith, in Morristown, NJ, where he has practised law for 50 years. He began writing poetry three years ago. His work has now appeared in 25 journals in the US, Canada and Great Britain. PETER WILKINS teaches English at Douglas College. He is currently studying the relationship between symbolic orphanhood and the father/son relationship in selected American and British novels and plays. FREDRICK ZYDEK is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Stumbling Through the Stars (Holmes House Publications, 2004) and Tacopachuk: The Buckley Poems (Winthrop
Press, forthcoming). Formerly a professor of creative writing and
theology, he is currently a gentleman farmer and an editor for Lone
Willow Press.
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