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Aidan Thompson |
| Aidan Thompson lives in Albany, New York. Her work has or will appear in Five Fingers Review, FEMSPEC, The East Village, Chase Park, in*tense, Moria Poetry Journal, Poethia, Sidereality, 26, Poetry Flash, Paragraph, and the Faux Bay Book. She is the author of Particle and Probability (Potes & Poets Press 2002). |
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Aislinn Hunter |
| Aislinn Hunter is the author of two books of poetry Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past, a short story collection What’s Left Us, and a novel Stay, all of which won national awards including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, The ReLit Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, The Danuta Gleed Award and a nomination for the Journey Prize. She teaches creative writing part-time at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and divides her time between Canada and the UK where she is finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh. |
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Alessandro Porco |
| Originally from Brampton, Ontario, Alessandro Porco is a doctoral student (ABD) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems (2008) and The Jill Kelly Poems (2005), both published by ECW Press. Porco regularly contributes to a variety of journals and magazines, including Canadian Notes & Queries, OpenBook Toronto, Arc, Matrix, Quill & Quire, Mansfield Revue, and Northern Poetry Review. |
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Andrea MacPherson |
| Andrea MacPherson currently acts as Reviews Editor for Event Magazine and teaches Creative Writing and English with University College of the Fraser Valley and Douglas College. Her other books include When She Was Electric , Beyond the Blue , and Away: Poems . When She Was Electric was listed No. 6 on CBC Canada Reads: People’s Choice. |
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Anne F. Walker |
| Anne F. Walker founded Redwood Coast Press, and co-edited the anthology bit to eat place. Twice her work won the University of California’s Eisner Award for literature, and a selection of poetry from The Exit Show was shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her previous books of poetry include Into the Peculiar Dark, Pregnant Poems, and Six Months Rent. |
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Ariel Gordon |
| Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. She won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer at the 2010 Manitoba Book Awards. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms. |
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Christian Bok |
| Christian Bok is an experimental sound poet. Eunoia (Coach House) won him the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His other books include Crystallography and Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. As a conceptual artist, he has made books from Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks. He has also worked in science-fiction television, designing artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. He is a Ph.D. graduate from York University, and as of 2005 he teaches at the University of Calgary. |
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Cynthia Woodman Kerkham |
| Cynthia Woodman Kerkham was born in Toronto, raised in Hong Kong and Vancouver and has lived in France. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Room, CV2, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Grain and Prairie Fire. In 2009 she won the Federation of BC Writers Literary Writes Competition. Good Holding Ground is her debut collection of poems. |
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Darryl Whetter |
| Darryl Whetter is the author of two books of fiction. His debut collection of stories, A Sharp Tooth in the Fur, was named to The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2003. He has published fifteen stories and numerous poems in various journals and anthologies. Darryl holds a PhD in English and has published or presented papers on contemporary literature. Darryl Whetter has been a professor of English and creative writing at various universities and currently teaches at Université Sainte-Anne. |
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Dawn Marie Kresan |
| Dawn Marie Kresan has her Master’s Degree in literature from the University of Windsor, and has studied a variety of creative interests including writing, bookbinding, typography and design, letterpress printing and stained glass. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals. Her first full-length poetry collection will be out with Tightrope Books in 2013. |
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Diane Tucker |
| Diane Tucker was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she got a B.F.A. from the University of B.C. in 1987. Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches , (Nightwood Editions) was shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies and appears regularly in journals in Canada and abroad. Diane currently resides in Burnaby. |
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Elisabeth Harvor |
| Elisabeth Harvor’s fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, and many other publications. Her stories have been anthologized in Canada, the US, Europe and Mexico, and she has won a number of awards for her work, among them the Alden Nowlan Award and the Marian Engel Award. In 1993 her first poetry book, Fortress of Chairs, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1992, and her second poetry book, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring, was a 1998 finalist for the Lowther Award. Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, her first novel, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Toronto Star in 2000. Let Me Be The One, her third story collection, was a 1996 finalist for the Governor General’s Award. |
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John Wall Barger |
| lives in Halifax, N.S., where he teaches English literature part time at Saint Mary’s University. His work has appeared in CV2, The Antigonish Review, and The Malahat Review, and is forthcoming in Grain, Descant and The Best Canadian Poetry 2008 (Tightrope Books). Pain-proof Men is his first collection of poems. |
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Kate Braid |
| has published three books of poetry:Covering Rough Ground which won the Pat Lowther Award, To This Cedar Fountain, nominated for the BC Poetry Book Prize and Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr, winner of the Vancity Book Prize. She co-edited In Fine Form: The Canadian Anthology of Form Poetry. |
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Laura Lush |
| Laura Lush has an Honours B.A. in English and Creative Writing from York University and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from The University of Calgary. Her books include Hometown, which was nominated for the 1992 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, Fault Line, The First Day of Winter, in which selections of this book tied for second place in the 2002 CBC Literary Contest, and a collection of short stories, Going to the Zoo. |
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Marty Gervais |
| Marty Gervais is an award-winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, publisher and editor. In 1996 he was awarded the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, and in 1998 he won Toronto’s prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, two plays and a novel. |
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Matt Mauch |
| Matt Mauch grew up in small Midwestern towns between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, in the snow and wind-chill belt. His poems have appeared in The Journal, Willow Springs, The Los Angeles Review, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. The editor of Poetry City, USA, Volume 1 (forthcoming from Lowbrow Press), Mauch teaches writing and literature in the AFA program at Normandale Community College, and also coordinates the reading series there. He holds an MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and lives in Minneapolis. |
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Rob Mclennan |
| rob mclennan is the author of ten poetry collections, including bagne, or criteria for heaven , Paper Hotel and what's left . The editor and publisher of above/ground press and the longpoem magazine STANZAS, he also edits the cauldron books series through Broken Jaw Press. He edited the anthologies side/lines: a new Canadian poetics and GROUNDSWELL: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003. He currently lives in Ottawa. |
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Shane Neilson |
| Shane Neilson is a physician who practices Family Medicine in Erin, ON. He has published two poetry collections, Mensicus and Complete Physical. In 2010 he won Arc's Poem of The Year contest. Gunmetal Blue is his second nonfiction book, his first being a collection of essays entitled Call Me Doctor. |
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Shawna Lemay |
| Shawna Lemay is the author of five books of poetry, All the God-Sized Fruit , Against Paradise, Still , Blue Feast , and Red Velvet Forest . All the God-Sized Fruit won both the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her blog is Capacious Hold-All. She lives in Edmonton with Robert Lemay, a visual artist, and their daughter Chloe. |
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Steven Heighton |
| Steven Heighton is the author of The Shadow Boxer, The Address Book, Flight Paths of the Emperor, and The Ecstasy of Skeptics. His work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award. He has received the Air Canada Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the Petra Kenney Prize. |
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Valerie Stetson |
| Valerie Stetson is the author of The Year I Got Impatient (Oolichan Books). In 2001, she received The Bronwen Wallace Award for short fiction. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Kelowna. |
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