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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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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 is a Ph.D. graduate from York University, and as of 2005 he teaches at the University of Calgary. |
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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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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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Ariel Gordon |
| is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. Her poetry has recently appeared in UNBC's e-mag ::stonestone::, Prairie Fire's Home Place issue, and Prism International as well as circulating on buses in both Manitoba and Alberta. This past fall, Ariel was the blogger-in-chief of HOT AIR, the official blog of THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival. |
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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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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. |
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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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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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Arnot McCallum |
| Arnot McCallum is a retired English Coordinator with the Greater Essex County District School Board. He is noted for his humorous and exciting presentations in elementary schools and appears regularly as a storyteller on the CBC radio show “Crosstown”. He is an energetic advocate for reading and writing and makes the pages of books come alive for children during his workshops. |
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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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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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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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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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Jordan Troutt |
| is a poet, critic, philosopher, craftsman and expert fly fisherman. A product of higher education, he enjoys low forms of humour, frequently speaking in rhymes and making up silly songs. It was serendipity that led him to write his first children’s book, and now he intends to keep publishing until he runs out of ideas. He lives in Southwestern Ontario with his family and many pets. |
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Diane Tucker |
| was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches , (Nightwood Editions) was shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Diane currently resides in Burnaby. |
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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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