Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Vince Agro graduated from King's College at the University of Western Ontario. He has taught high school English, served on the Hamilton City Council and worked in the insurance industry. He has previously published one nonfiction collection, You Can Fight City Hall.
Luanne Armstrong is the author of fourteen books, including poetry collections, novels and children's books. She has been nominated for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year, the Sheila Egoff BC Book Prize award, the Red Cedar award and the Relit Prize for Fiction. Luanne Armstrong is an adjunct professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator whose work explores history, geography, public space, textual architecture, multilingualism, translation, textual and collaborative performance, and who transformed the landscape of Vancouver’s Hastings Park into an acclaimed book of poems, feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008). She has translated Nichita Stanescu from Romanian, published as Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks, 2006), created visual textworks for galleries in Montreal and Vancouver, and has performed her work in Canada, USA, Mexico and Europe. She recently collaborated with Erín Moure on Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009), a dialogic work exploring the boundaries between author/translator and original/copy. The Islands, a translation of Les Îles by Quebecoise poet Louise Cotnoir, is forthcoming from Wolsak and Wynn in 2011 and We, Beasts, Avasilichioaei's newest poetry collection, in 2012.
Douglas Barbour, an innovative poet keenly attuned to the spoken word, adapts the ancient verse form of the ghazal in this contemporary collection. You don't "snuggle" with the poetry of Doug Barbour. You strap yourself in & feel the burn. - rob mclennan
Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, award-winning author and anthropologist. In 2002, she was one of the first journalists to gain entry to the rebel-held Côte d'Ivoire to report on the civil war. She reported for many years for the BBC World Service, The Associated Press, and has contributed various features to a variety of CBC programs.
Maxianne Berger enjoys a lively literary career. She has contributed to fifteen anthologies, notably In Fine Form (2005) and The Paradelle (2005). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Mahalat Review, The North American Review and The Hamilton Stone Review. Her translations of francophone poets have appeared in Maisonneuve, Poetry (Chicago) and in the British anthology Poetry to Heal your Blues (2005). Active in the French and English haiku and tanka communities, she reviews for Gust and writes about poetics for the Revue du tanka francophone. Her literary memberships include The League of Canadian Poets, Quebec Writers' Federation, Haiku Canada and Tanka Canada. And when not involved in writing, she is an audiologist at the McGill University Health Centre in Montréal.
Lesley-Anne Bourne grew up in North Bay, Ontario. She received her Hons. B.A. in English and Creative Writing at York University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and has been a participant several times in the Writing Program at The Banff Centre for the Arts. She is the author of three books of poetry, The Story of Pears (1990), Skinny Girls (1993), and Field Day (1996), and a novel, The Bubble Star (1998). Her writing has appeared in various anthologies, including Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets and Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada. Her awards include the Air Canada Award, administered by the Canadian Authors’ Association, for a writer under thirty with outstanding promise; the Bliss Carman Poetry Award; and the PEI Milton Acorn Poetry Award. She has been a creative writing instructor for the Maritime Writers' Workshop at the University of New Brunswick and Artsperience at Canadore College in North Bay. She teaches Creative Writing and University 100 (First-year Experience) at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Jacquie Buncel is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She is active in Holocaust Education Programs across Toronto, and has been studying and writing about the Jewish experience for over ten years. She is also the exceutive director of the Sunshine Centre for Seniors, a community-based organization that works with isolated seniors.
Heather Roberts Cadsby was born in Belleville Ontario and moved to Toronto at a young age. She obtained a B.A. degree from McMaster University and taught elementary school for a number of years. In the 80's she helped organize poetry readins at the Axle-Tree Coffee House in Toronto. Currently she is on the Board of advisors for the Art Bar Poetry Series. A Tantrum of Synonyms is her third book of poetry.
Domenico Capilongo's writing has appeared in publications abroad and in Canadian literary journals including, The New Quarterly, Filling Station, Descant, and Acta Victoriana. In 2005 his work was nominated for the Journey Prize. He received an honourable mention in the Toronto Star Poetry contest in 2004. Capilongo lived in Vancouver and Swift Current before finally settling in Toronto.
Ron Charach is one of the world's most widely published physician/poets and the leading psychiatrist/poet writing in English. Selected Portraits draws on poetry selections from Charach's previous collections, including Elephant Street (2003), Dungenesseque (2002), and Petrushkin! (1999, 2000). His writing has appeared in Descant, The Fiddlehead, Arc, The Malahat Review, Matrix, Prairie Fire, and Contemporary Verse 2. In 2003, Charach was awarded the Canadian Jewish Award for Poetry. Born in Winnipeg, Charach now resides in Toronto where he is a poet and a practicing psychiatrist.
Lesley Choyce lives at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, where he surfs the North Atlantic year round. He is one of Canada's most versatile man of letters, the author of more than 70 books in genres including autobiography, history, poetry, fiction and young adult novels. He has won the Ann Connor Brimer Award, the Dartmouth Book Award and was named the Best Writer of Halifax by readers of The Coast five years in a row. He has been short-listed for many other awards, including The White Pine Award, The Stephen Leacock Medal and the Alberta Book Award. Two of his novels, The Republic of Nothing and Cold Clear Morning are being developed as feature films.
Born in 1948 in Sorel, Québec, Louise Cotnoir has published over fifteen books of poetry, fiction and drama. Many of her books have received critical acclaim, including nominations for the Governor General’s Award. She has participated in numerous conferences on writing and women and has served on the editorial boards or collaborated in other ways with many Canadian and international journals, including Sorcières, Estuaire, Arcade, Tessera, Matrix, Moebius, Room of One's Own, Ellipse, Trivia, Silencíada Festada Palabra, El Ciervo and Cahiers internationaux du symbolisme. Some of her works have been translated into English, Spanish, Catalan, Swedish and Chinese. Her next collection of poetry, Les sœurs de, will be published by Éditions du Noroît in 2011. Titles The Islands (2011)
As an actor, writer, radio personality, director, festival organizer, long-time arts promoter, and poet, Don Cullen has dedicated his life to the arts in Canada. His ground-breaking coffee house, the Bohemian Embassy, is only one of the ways he brought the arts into the lives of Canadians, but it is one of his most storied efforts and deserves to be told to us in Cullen's own wry style.
Faizal Deen is the author of Land Without Chocolate which won the AM Klein Prize for Poetry in 2000.
Barry Dempster was born in Toronto, Ontario, and educated in child psychology. He is the author of a novel, a children's book, two volumes of short stories and eleven collections of poetry. He has been nominated for the Governor General's Award twice; for his first book, Fables for Isolated Men, and most recently for The Burning Alphabet, which won the Canadian Authors Association Chalmers Award for poetry. From 1990 to 1997, he was Poetry and Reviews Editor for Poetry Canada. Presently, he is Senior Acquisitions Editor with Brick Books. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has been on the faculty at The Banff Centre as mentor for the Writing Studio, Wired Writing and Writing with Style programs; has conducted master classes all across the country and as far away as Chile; and has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Richmond Hill Public Library twice. His most recent books include Love Outlandish, Ivan’s Birches and Blue Wherever.
Jamie Dopp is an Associate Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Victoria. He has published a variety of articles on Canadian fiction, poetry, and culture, as well as one novel and two books of poems. In 2004, during a very rare cold spell in Victoria, he stayed up all night to build a backyard ice rink and managed to have three blissful days of outdoor hockey with his family.
Glen Downie has published half a dozen books of poetry and in 2008 was awarded the Toronto Book Award for his collection, Loyalty Management. His work has appeared in the secondary school textbook Inside Poetry, as well as in many anthologies and journals. Formerly a social worker in cancer care, he served a term as writer-in-residence at Dalhousie University’s Medical Humanities Program before returning to a life of anonymity in Toronto as an at-home father.
Louise Dupré is a poet, novelist and literary critic whose work has appeared extensively in magazines and journals in Canada and abroad, and who has won several prizes. She has published eight collections of poetry including Noir déjà, Tout près and Une écharde sous ton ongle. She has also written two novels, Memoria and The Milky Way, and a collection of short stories, Highwire Summer, all translated in English by Liedewij Hawke. A collection of her poetry, The Blueness of Light, was translated in English by Antonio D’Alfonso. In 2006, Tout comme elle, staged by Brigitte Haentjens, was presented in Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa. Titles Just Like Her (2011) Reviews Just Like Her (Shannon Webb Campbell, Telegraph-Journal, 7/30/2011)
Deirdre Dwyer lives in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is the author of one previous book of poetry, The Breath that Lightens the Body, and is a winner of the Writers' Federatin of Nova Scotia's poetry prize. Going to the Eyestone is her first book with Wolsak and Wynn.
Lee Easton works in the Department of English at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. He began his lifelong habit of reading superhero comics in Sudbury, Ontario, after receiving an issue of World's Finest Comics. He has taught courses about comics at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and at Mount Royal University alongside his colleague and collaborator, Richard Harrison. In addition to teaching and writing about superhero comics, Lee also writes about the representation of gender and sexuality in film and science fiction. He is currently the chair of the Department of English at Mount Royal University.
Polly Fleck loves words, and has been a student and teacher of literature all her life. She has an M.A. in Old and Middle English (University of Western Ontario) and has taught at Western and at l'Universite Canadienne en France at Villefranche-sur-mer. SHe is a founding member of Squid Inc., a Toronto poets' group. Her first book, Polychronicon, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 1984.
Eric Folsom's poems and book reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers in Canada and the US. His first book, Poems for Little Cataraqui came out in 1994 with Broken Jaw Press. A former editor of the poetry zine Next Exit, Folsom's home is in Kingston, Ontario.
Griselda García is one of the principal voices of a younger generation of Argentine poets who have grown up in the cultural resurgence and economic uncertainty that have characterized Argentine life since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983. She has published six collections of poetry and is highly active in the Buenos Aires literary world, both as co-editor of the small press La Carta de Oliver and as a key figure in Internet publication, which is a major component in the diffusion of contemporary Argentine writing. She has also worked with the literary review La Guacha, produced radio programs on culture and literature, worked in theatre and dance, and translated poetry by Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath into Spanish. Alucinaciones en la alfalfa y otros poemas/ Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems is the first published translation of her work into English.
Jean Greenberg grew up in Welland, ON, and has lived and worked in Toronto since her university years. She is a librarian who writes and edits information about community services and women's health. She has a son and a grandson and is an avid amateur photographer.
David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. David studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, BC, in 1998–1999, where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He has written three previous poetry collections: Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications, 1997); The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press, 2000); and Under god’s pale bones (Kegedonce Press, 2010). David’s poetry has appeared in over 100 periodicals in England, Australia, Germany, Austria and the US. He lives in a log home near Ottawa.
Stephen Guppy is the author of two previous books of poetry and a collection of short fiction. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Malaspina University College on Vancouver Island.
Originally from Brandon, Manitoba, Plynn Gutman left a career in the business world to follow her lifelong passion for writing. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and is the former director of the Young Adult Writing Project sponsored by Arizona State University's English Department. Gutman is a writing coach, freelance editor and teaches writing classes and workshops in Canada, the US and the United Arab Emirates.
Richard Harrison is the author of five books of poetry: Fathers Never Leave You (1987), Recovering the Naked Man (1991), Hero of the Play (1994), Big Breath of a Wish (1999), and Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition (2004). His books have won a Milton Acorn Prize and the City of Calgary/W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. In addition, his poetry has been short-listed for the Alberta Writers’ Guild Poetry Prize, two Milton Acorn Medals, and the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. His work is included in many anthologies, most recently Gifts: Poems for Parents from Sumach Press, and is studied in both high school and University courses across Canada, and as part of the University of Vermont’s Canadian Studies program. Most recently the poem “All-Star Action” was included in Oxford Press’s Canadian High School English textbook. Richard is an award-winning and highly regarded reader. He was one of the first three winners of Harbourfront’s Discovery Reading Prize, and he has brought poetry to such intriguing places for verse as the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Saddledome, home of the Calgary Flames. He has read across the country, and his work has been broadcast on CBC’s Adrienne Clarkson Presents and on Peter Gzowski’s Morningside. In March 2000, Richard read four dedicatory poems to and for Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe who attended the Calgary Booster Club’s annual Sportsman-of-the-Year banquet, the last gathering of those legends of the game. Richard holds degrees in Biology and Philosophy from Trent University, where he taught philosophy for several years before returning to do graduate work at Concordia University in Montreal; his thesis became his second book. After a year or two spent traveling in Africa and working in a Toronto bookstore, he was named the 1995/96 Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. There he completed his fourth book, Big Breath of a Wish – poems about his infant daughter’s learning how to speak – which was nominated for that year’s Governor-General’s Award. Currently, Richard lives in Calgary with his wife Lisa and their two children, Emma and Keeghan. He is a freelance editor and teaches English and Creative Writing at Mount Royal College.
Hugh Hazelton is a writer and translator who specializes in the work of Latin American writers living in Canada, as well as in comparisons between Canadian and Quebec literatures and those of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay). He has published four books of poetry and has translated eleven books from Spanish and French into English. His translation of Vétiver (Signature, 2005) a collection of poems by the Haitian-Canadian writer Joël Des Rosiers, won the Governor General's award for French-English translation in 2006. He teaches Spanish translation and Latin American civilization at Concordia University in Montreal.
Susan Helwig lives in Toronto. For several years Susan Helwig produced and hosted the literary programme "In other words" at radio station CKLN-FM in Toronto. Her work has been widely publshed and anthologized throughout North America, from ACTA victoriana to Zygote. A lifelong obsession with food has started to pay dividends with the inclusion of one of her pieces in a book on Appalachian home cooking. Her first book, Catch the Sweet, was published to great acclaim in 2001. Pink Purse Girl is her second collection.
Robert Hillies was born and raised in Kenora, Ontario and now lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife Rebecca and their two children Breanne and Austin. He teaches computer programming at the DeVry Institute of Technology. His first novel, Raising of Voices, won the Writers' Guild of Alberta Georges Bugnet Award for best novel. He also won the Governer General's Award for Poetry in 1994 for his book Cantos from a Small Room.
Cornelia Hoogland has published five poetry collections, most recently, Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011). Her poetry has been published internationally and has been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards on multiple occasions. Hoogland is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario , and is the founder and the co-artistic director of Poetry London, an organization that brings prominent writers into lively discussion with local writers and readers. Hoogland divides her time between London, Ontario, and Hornby Island, BC.
Lorraine Janzen is a writer who lives in North Bay, where she teaches English Studies at Nipissing University. She has published a number of books on Victorian illustrated works, most recently Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals across Canada. In 1998 she won first place in the Northeastern Ontario Poetry contest.
Sarah Klassen is a poet and fiction writer living and working in Winnipeg. Earlier, she taught English literature in a Winnipeg high school and for two years in Lithuania. Her first book, Journey to Yalta, recieved the Gerald Lampert Award in 1989 and two later collections were nominated for the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in literary journals across Canada.
Zoë Landale's writing has appeared in over thirty anthologies and her fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry has won signficant awards,including first prize for poetry in the CBC Literary Competition. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines including The New Quarterly, CV2, The Antigonish Review, The Malahat Review, Chatelaine, and Canadian Living. She is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada and the Federation of BC Writers. Landale lives in British Columbia where she teaches writing.
Richard Lemm is an award-winning author, and a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has published four previous collections of poetry, a book of short fiction, Shape of Things to Come, and a biography of Canada’s “People’s Poet,” Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger. His most recent poetry book is Four ways of dealing with bullies (Wolsak and Wynn, 2000). Born in Seattle, he immigrated to Canada in 1967, and moved to Atlantic Canada in 1979.
Douglas Lochead published twenty volumes of poetry. He was Professor Emeritus of Canadian Studies, Mount Albion University, Senior Fellow Emeritus and Founding Librarian, Massey College, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He lived in Sackville, New Brunswick and passed away in March 2011.
Jeanette Lynes grew up in rural southwestern Ontario. She has lived in Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver and Thunder Bay, among other places. She has published three collections of poetry, A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway, Wolsak and Wynn, 1999; Left Fields, Wolsak and Wynn, 2003 and The Aging Cheerleaders Alphabet, Mansfield Press, 2003. She received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award in 2001, and her poems are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio. Jeanette has been Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University, and is currently teaching at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
The Parable Boat is Hannah Main-van der Kamp's second book of poetry. Her first book, The Gift of Rain, came out in 1995, and she has also published a third book, With Averted Vision. The author was born in the Netherlands, came to Canada as a girl, and started publishing poems in journals and anthologies in her teens. Her time is divided between British Columbia's Desolation Sound, Arizona, and Victoria, British Columbia, where she lives with her muscisian husband. She considers contemplation to be her true vocation and out of that she writes, teaches, edits and reviews.
Markotic teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature at the University of Calgary. In addition to Connect the Dots, she has written a novel and several poetry chapbooks. She co-publishes the chapbook press disOrientation books, and works as a free-lance editor as well as a writer in Calgary, Alberta. The poems in minotaurs & other alphabets range from the prose poetry we have been introduced to in her previous book, Connect the Dots, to a less referential exploration of female desire and mythological beasts.
Alice Major lives in Edmonton. Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines and in four previous collections. Her collection Tales for an Urban Sky won the inagural Poet's Corner Award, sponsored by Broken Jaw Press, and two of her books were runners-up for the City of Edmonton Book Prize. She is the past chair of the Edmonton Arts Council and the Writers Guild of Alberta, and currently serves as president of the League of Canadian Poets.
Micheline Maylor moved from Windsor, Ontario to Calgary, Alberta in 1975 and lives in a little house beside the Bow River with her family. She has been the recipient of the Overseas Research Scholarship, the International Research Scholarship and grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She has published poetry in over 50 journals in five countries. A certified poetry fanatic, she teaches various poetry workshops at the Alexandra Writer’s Centre Society, serves as its Vice President, and is the editor of FreeFall literary magazine.
Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most notably Alaska, where she began the clay apprenticeship that largely shapes her book Stormthrower. She has also lived in Norway and spent signifigant time in South Africa. She now resides in Nova Scotia. Stormthrower is her first book.
Born in Toronto, Julie McNeil was an early member of the Bohemian Embassy Poets' Workshop (later Phoenix). An accomplished reader in numerous venues both on stage and on radio, her identification with the long oral tradition of poetry is revealed in the strong lyrical voice of her work. Her poetry has appeared in periodicals and anthologies. Including Poems for Sale In the Street and Other Channels and in her chapbook Ching, the Well (1976). This is her first collection.
Steve McOrmond’s poetry has appeared in Canadian literary magazines including Event, The Fiddlehead, Geist, Grain, Malahat Review, The New Quarterly and Prairie Fire, and online at Maisonneuve, Jacket (Australia) and nthposition (UK). His work also appears in the anthology Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets (Nightwood 2004). His first book of poetry Lean Days was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. In 2006, he received a “Highly Commended” award in the Petra Kenney International Poetry Contest. He lives in Toronto.
Christina McRae lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, with her family. Her poetry appears in many literary journals including Descant, Prairie Fire, Room of One's Own, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Antigonish Review. In 2001, Christina was awarded first place in the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia's Atlantic Writing Competition for poetry. Next to Nothing is her first full-length collection.
Robert Moore was born in Hamilton, Ontario and now resides in Saint John, New Brunswick. Currently a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, his poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, Ink Magazine, The New Quarterly, Canadian Author, Prairie Fire, Maisonneuve, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Gaspereau Review, CV2, and Quadrant. His first book of poetry, So Rarely in Our Skins (finalist for both The Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry), came out in 2002. His second book, Museum Absconditum (2006), also long-listed for the ReLit Award, was published in 2006. He is also the author of a dozen plays.
Erín Moure is a Montreal poet who writes mainly in English, yet works multilingually and in hybrid forms. Her most recent books are O Resplandor and – in collaboration with Oana Avasilichioaei – Expeditions of a Chimæra. Moure has translated Quebec poets Nicole Brossard (with Robert Majzels) and Louise Dupré, Galician poet Chus Pato, and Chilean Andrés Ajens into English, as well as Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese. She has published 14 books of her own poetry and 7 books of poetry in translation since 1979. Her translations have been finalists for the Griffin Prize and the Governor General’s Award and she has won the Governor General’s Award, the AM Klein Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and been nominated for the Griffin Prize for her own poetry.
Jim Nason was born in Montreal and has lived in Calgary, Vancouver, and Syracuse, New York. He presently lives in Toronto where he is a social worker. He has worked as a flight attendant, a bookseller, and has taught at Ryerson University. His poems have appeared in journals across Canada, and a selection of poems from The Fist of Remembering was short-listed for the 2002 CBC Literary Award.
Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. In the early seventies, he emigrated to Canada, where he quickly became on of Montreal's infamous Vehicule Poets and the author of numerous books of poetry. He became a Canadian citizen in 1985. Norris teacges at the University of Maine, where he is professor of Canadian Literature. He currently divides his time between Canada, Maine, and the Caribbean.
Erin Noteboom comes from the American prairies. From a childhood steeped in family, science and writing, Erin first choose science when the two options of science or poetry split apart. She collected a physics degree, worked at the CERN accelerator in Geneva, and took the world’s first Polaroid of Cherenkov ring. After a brain tumour rearranged her priorities Erin went back to poetry, and immigrated to Canada in 1997. She has been published widely in literary magazines since then, winning the CBC Literary Award in 2001, the 2004 KW [Kitchener Waterloo] Arts Award, and Acorn/Plantos Award for Peoples poetry in 2004. She is the poetry editor for the New Quarterly, runs writing workshops in Kitchener, Ontario and is active in the literary community.
John O'Neil was born in Toronto and lives in Scarborough, Ontario. His work has appeared in such journals as Canadian Literature, The Malahat Review, Grain, Poetry Canada Review, Descant, and Event. He is the author of two previous collections of poems, Animal Walk and Love in Alaska. The title piece from The Photographer of Wolves won second prize in the Prarie Fire Long Poem contest and was subsequently short-listed for a National Magazine Award.
Catherine Owen is a Vancouver writer. She’s published seven previous collections of poetry. Her poetry collection Frenzy won the Alberta Literary Award for 2009 while The Wrecks of Eden was shortlisted for the BC Book Prize in 2002. Her first compilation of essays and memoirs, Catalysts, is forthcoming from Wolsak & Wynn in 2012. She also plays bass in the metal band Medea and works as a freelance editor and tutor. Check out her website for more information.
Poet and literary translator Edita Page has an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Vilnius University, Lithuania. She has translated poems and stories in three languages. Born in Lithuania, Page immigrated to Canada in 1989. She lives and works in Toronto as an arts consultant and a professional fundraiser with a theatre.
Chris Pannell is part of the organizing committee for the Hamilton reading series Lit Live and also serves on the board of Hamilton's annual gritLIT Literary Festival. He has published two poetry books: Under Old Stars (2002) and Sorry I Spent Your Poem (1999). He is also the author of a set of three poetry broadsheets entitled, Fractures, Subluxations and Disclocations which won the Hamilton & Region Arts Council poetry book award in 1997. From 1993 until 2005 he ran the New Writing Workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-lengh anthologies for the group. He has been published in literary magazines across Canada and internationally as well. Drive is his fourth collection of poetry.
Harold Rhenisch is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iodine, about the second coming of Christ, The Blue Mouth of Morning, about Cayote, Mozart and a host of other tricksters, and Free Will, a send-up of the theatre, including versions of Shakespeare's plays composed by a collection of wise and unpredictible monkeys locked into a padded room. He is also the author of the emotionally intense novel Carnival and two books about late colonial British Columbia, Out of the Interior and Tom Thomson's Shack. He has been writing poetry for 30 years. This is his tribute to the creative imagination.
Jim Roberts was born in British Columbia and attended the University of Victoria. He now lives in Toronto and travels when he can. He has worked as a bookseller, handprinter and proofreader. In 1999 Jim Roberts placed third in Arc's Poem of the Year contest.
Born in Vancouver, Stan Rogal has lived in Toronto for the past twelve years. Geometry of the Odd is Stan's fourth book of poetry, his second with Wolsak and Wynn. As well as writing poetry and fiction, Rogal is a playwright/ actor/ director and co-artistic director of Bald Ego Theatre. He is also into his ninth year as the coordinator of the popular Idler Pub Reading Series. How he actually supports himself financially has puzzled friends and relatives for some time now. As Gwyneth Paltrow states in 'Shakespeare in Love': it's a mystery.
Born and raised in Toronto, Kenneth Sherman inhabits and writes about a much larger world, which includes Muskoka as well as Europe and the Near East. He teaches at Sheridan College and York University. The Well is Sherman's ninth book of poetry.
Bren Simmers lives in Vancouver, where she works as a park interpreter. Winner of the Arc Poem of the Year Award and finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, her work has been published in journals across Canada. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
Jim Slominski published his first full length book, The Wind is a Tall Man Striding, with watershedBooks (2000). Some of his poems were short-listed for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Literary Awards in 2000, and in 2002 he placed second for the same award. Twice he has been awarded second prize by the Canadian Authors Association Niagara Branch annual poetry contest, and has had several poems published in their anthologies, Symbols and The Saving Bannister. His work has appeared in Quarry, Journal of the Writing Space, Lit, Niagara Currents, En Route, and the new writing workshop anthology Between a Dock and a High Place. Born in Montreal, he lives with in Niagara-on-the Lake with his wife, Mary, and two children, Jake and Maya.
Smith has served as the President of the League of Canadian Poets and as Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. He divides his time between Paris, France and teaching at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Francis Sparshott was born in Chatham, England in 1926, and came to Canada in 1950, where he taught Philosophy at the University of Toronto until 1991. He has been awarded two honorary degrees, a Doctor of Sacred Letters from Victoria University (Toronto) and a Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto. He is the author of ten books of academic prose and eleven volumes of poetry.
Heather Spears is an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and she has published several collections of drawings. Spears divides her time between Denmark and Canada. More information about Heather Spears
Susan Stenson lives in Victoria with her family where she co-publishes The Claremont Review, a literary magazine for writers aged 13 to 19. She teaches English and creative writing in Saanich School District and has taught at Waterford Kamhlaba'a United World College in Swaziland. Her students, both young and adult, have won provincial, national and international prizes. More information about Susan Stenson
Sheila Stewart grew up in Stratford, Waterloo, and Montreal. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Descant, Fireweed, Grain, The Malahat Review, and The Windsor Review. Her work has been anthologised in A Room at the Heart of Things: The Work That Came to Me, edited by Elisabeth Harvor. She won the 2000 Pottersfield Portfolio Short Poem Competition. Sheila lives in Toronto and works on adult literacy issues at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
Moez Surani’s writing has been included in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Carousel, Prairie Fire, Vallum and Arc Poetry Magazine. He has served as a writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic District School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in Toronto. He was the recipient of a 2008 Chalmers Fellowship Award which supported a trip through India and East Africa.
John Terpstra has published four previous collections of poetry, several of which have won awards. His book Forty Days and Forty Nights received the Bressani Prize for Poetry in 1988; his long poem "Captain Kintail" won first prize in the poetry category of the 1992 CBC Literary Competition; and in 1995 Terpstra won first prize for Non-Fiction awarded by the Hamilton and Region Arts Council. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
Tierney’s poetry has been published in many literary journals in Canada including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Event, The Antigonish Review, Prism International, The New Quarterly and Qwerty, as well as in the Brobdingnagian Times and Southword, in Cork, Ireland. He was born in a small town outside of Waterloo and grew up in Toronto, where he now lives. Several years ago, he spent some time in Japan teaching conversational English, and returned home by way of the Trans-Mongolian Express, an offshoot of the Trans-Siberian Express, one of the last great transcontinental train routes. He continues to take the subway to work every day.
RHEA TREGEBOV was born in Saskatoon, raised in Winnipeg and currently lives in Vancouver, where she teaches at the University of British Columbia. Her fifth collection of poetry, The Strength of Materials, was issued by Wolsak and Wynn in Fall, 2001. A volume of selected and new poems, entitled (alive) was released in September 2004. Tregebov has also published five children's picture books and is the editor of nine anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, most recently Gifts: Poems for Parents (Sumach Press, 2002). Tregebov received Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) in 1998. She is a co-winner of the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition in 1994 and also received the Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner in 1993. Her first collection of poetry won the Pat Lowther Award in 1983. For more information on Rhea Tregebov, check out her website.
Naomi Beth Wakan was born in London, England, and has travelled extensively, including living in Japan for two years. Naomi has authored education books, children books, and poetry collections, as well as non-fiction titles, including the ALA selection, Haiku - one breath poetry. She continues to write prolifically and also conducts workshops on writing later in life. She is a member of Haiku Canada, Tanka Canada and The League of Canadian Poets. She lives on Gabriola Island with her husband, the sculptor, Elias Wakan. More information about Naomi Beth Wakan
Weier has traveled extensively throughout South Africa, India and Europe pursuing his passion for bird watching and logging over 1,200 species of birds. Weier has published books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and for children. Lost Alcyon: Notes from an African Journey is Weier’s eleventh book. His writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies and he has read widely in North America and abroad. Weier lives in Winnipeg where he works as a freelance writer and violin restorer, and owns a small chapbook press. More information about John Weier
Ian Williams completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and is currently an Assistant Professor of American literature at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. His first book of poetry, You Know Who You Are, is forthcoming from Wolsak and Wynn, and his first collection of short stories, Not Anyone's Anything, is forthcoming from Freehand books. His writing has appeared in Arc, Contemporary Verse 2, Rattle, jubilat, The Antigonish Review, Gargoyle, Pebble Lake Review, Callaloo, Descant, and Matrix Magazine. He is a Cave Canem fellow, recipient of a Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts poetry residency, a Palazzo Rinaldi fiction residency in Italy, and was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study. He divides his time between Ontario and Massachusetts More information about Ian Williams
Born and raised in central Alberta, Paul Wilson moved to Regina where he has worked as a writer and closely with writers for over 25 years as co-publisher of Hagios Press. He is the author of three books of poetry, including The Long Landscape (1999) which won the City of Regina Book Award. His writing has also earned him the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary Award for Poetry and the Sterling Poetry Award. Recently, Wilson co-edited Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets. The images of nature in his writing are a natural extension of Wilson's work as the Member Services and Outreach Manager at Nature Saskatchewan.
Elizabeth Rhett Woods was born in Prince George, British Columbia, in 1940, and has been writing professionally since 1968. She has published two previous books of poetry and two novels, and has had her plays and poetry adapted for radio. Woods, who lives in Victoria, is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Federation of British Columbia.
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