ELIZABETH BACHINSKY is the author of Curio (BookThug, 2005); Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood Editions), nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 2006; and God of Missed Connections (Nightwood, 2009). Her work has appeared in print and film in Canada, the US and abroad. She lives in Vancouver and teachescreative writing at Douglas College.
ALANNA F. BONDAR, a MA graduate in Creative Writing (UNB), is working on her latest manuscript, there are many ways to die while travelling in Peru. She won the Canadian Heritage Award for Poetry in 1990. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, ON.
TREVOR CORKUM’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in magazines across Canada. ‘Letters to Andersonville’ received an honourable mention in EVENT’s 2008 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. He lives in Vancouver, where he is enrolled in UBC’s Optional-Residency MFA program.
KULDIP GILL was the inaugural poet in residence at University College of the Fraser Valley in 2006. She taught at UBC, SFU, the Open Learning Agency and UCFV. Her first book of poetry, Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions, 1999), won a BC Book Award. Her second book, Valley Sutra, from which these poems are taken, will be published this fall by Caitlin Press.
SHELSEY HAINES was born and raised in Calgary where she studied black and white photography for a number of years. Now living in Salmon Arm, BC, working as a media photographer for a local newspaper, she spends her free time photographing local miniature displays, recycleables and portraits.
SARA HEINONEN is a Toronto writer and landscape architect. Her fiction has appeared in This Magazine, Taddle Creek and Grain. She is working on a collection of stories that range from sad to satirical.
BILL HOWELL was a producer-director with CBC Radio Drama for three decades. He has recent work in The Antigonish Review, Descant, Existere, LRC, The New Quarterly, New York Quarterly and Nthposition; and in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 (Tightrope Books). His fourth collection, Porcupine Archery, was published in May by Insomniac Press.
ADREA JOHNSON is a Master’s student studying theology and literature at Regent College in Vancouver; she intends to pursue PhD studies in the UK. She will be giving a paper on Charles Spurgeon at a Victorian conference in October 2009.
DONNA KANE has published two books of poetry, Somewhere, A Fire (2004) and Erratic (2007), both with Hagios Press. As director of Writing on the Ridge, she organizes readings, festivals and retreats throughout northern BC. She is completing a degree at UVic, helps with the Open Word reading series in Victoria, and is on the editorial board of The Malahat Review.
ROBERT KOSTUCK is a MEd graduate from Northern Arizona University. Recently published or forthcoming work appears in Tiny Lights, So To Speak, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Flyway: A Literary Review, and The Massachusetts Review. His body is in Florida but his spirit is in the American Southwest.
ANGELA LONG’s writing has appeared in numerous publications across Canada and internationally. Her first collection of poems, Observations from Off the Grid, is forthcoming from Libros Libertad. She currently lives in a log cabin in Haida Gwaii, BC.
JAY MILLAR is the author of five books, including False Maps for Other Creatures (Nightwood Editions, 2005) and the small blue (Snare, 2007). Lack Lyrics tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children where he runs BookThug and Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe and teaches creative writing at George Brown College.
J.R. MYERS’s short fiction has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, The Windsor Review and Carousel. His non-fiction has been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio. He lives in Ottawa.
ARMAND GARNET RUFFO is strongly influenced by his Ojibway heritage. He is the author of Opening in the Sky and At Geronimo’s Grave (winner of the 2002 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry), as well as the creative biography Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney. He is directing a film adaptation of his CBC Showcase award-winning play A Windigo Tale (2009).
JAY RUZESKY’s books include Blue Himalayan Poppies (Nightwood Editions, 2001). He teaches English and Film Studies at Vancouver Island University and recently guest edited the ‘Green Imagination’ issue of The Malahat Review. His novel The Wolsenburg Clock, from which this excerpt is taken, will be published in Fall 2009 by Thistledown Press.
JANE SILCOTT writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her work has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies, and she has twice been recognized by the CBC Literary Awards: in 2005 as a second-place winner in non-fiction; and in 2008 as a finalist in fiction. She teaches writing and English in Vancouver.
GEORGE SLOBODZIAN was born in Saskatoon, SK. He divides his time between Montreal, where he teaches literature at Dawson College, and Central Europe. His work has appeared in magazines across Canada and in one book of poetry, Clinical Studies (DC Books, 2001).
