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Joe Bishop lives in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador. His work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Twig and With an Image of Grace.

Nick Surges is a student and writer from Ottawa, Ontario. His previous publishing credits include Carleton U's In/Words and WhatIf? Magazine. He is currently pursuing studies in musical theatre.

Jude Dillon is a graduate of Queen's University in English. He has studied painting at the Alberta College of Art. He has published poems in, iota, The Delinquent, Numinous Sprititual Magazine, Gloom Cupboard, Wascana Review, On Spec, Purple Patch and others.

He is a photographer and Contributing Editor of the ezine Gloom Cupboard based in England. Jude lives in Calgary.

Daniela Elza lives in Vancouver, BC, and is currently working on her first full length poetry manuscript and contemplating her doctoral thesis in Philosophy of Education at SFU. This year her work appeared in Verse Map of Vancouver, Press 1, Vallum, Matrix, qarrtsiluni, Poetic Inquiry (Sense Publishers, 2009), 4poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009) and is forthcoming in educational insights, The Trumpeter, and The New Orphic Review. Her website is: http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/

Kim Goldberg is a poet, journalist and author of six books. Her poems have appeared in The Capilano Review, Geist, Prairie Fire, Rampike, Tesseracts, Istanbul Literary Review and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Ride Backwards on Dragon (Leaf Press, 2007), was short-listed for Canada’s Lampert Memorial Award for poetry. Her latest collection, RED ZONE (Pig Squash Press, 2009), is a verse map of Nanaimo’s homeless population. The book has been adopted as a literature course text at Vancouver Island University. Kim lives in Nanaimo, BC, where approximately 300 people sleep on the streets each night. Visit: http://pigsquash.wordpress.com/

Paul Barclay is an ex-pat Canadian now living permanently in Korea.  He studied literature at the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto.  He published a chapbook Creole (Pachyderm Press, Winnipeg, 1993) and has edited and published a variety of poetry zines.

Joel Shea was born in Victoria, B.C. and currently lives in London, UK. He is also a musician.

John Tzikas is a Toronto based poet. His work has appeared in Canada in Authors, Quills, Poetry Super Highway, Long Story Short, Word Catalyst, and Midwest Literary Magazine.

Paul Maxfield was born and raised in and around Toronto. He graduated from the Creative Writing program at the University of Windsor, briefly attended the MFA program at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, and is now working as an assistant editor for an academic journal based in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he is studying counseling psychology. He was the winner of the 2008 Writer Advice Flash Fiction contest and judge of the 2009 contest.

Andrew McEwan is from Bright's Grove, Ontario, and studies at the University of Toronto. His work has appeared in Dandelion, Misunderstandings Magazine, Fact-Simile, Monkey Puzzle, and Gulch, an anthology published by Tightrope Books. His first chapbook is due in February 2010 from Cactus Press.

Donato Mancini is the author two books of procedural and visual poetry, Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007), both from New Star books, both nominated for the ReLit Award. He also co-directed the world's first genuine in-world avatar documentary AVATARA (2003). Long time member of the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver BC, he was a principal organiser of the N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium in August 2008. He is now finishing a third collection of visual and textworks for New Star and beginning to prepare for publication his book-length study of the ideology and ideolects of poetry reviewing in Canada.

Jon Parsons is originally from St. John’s but has been living in exile on the mainland for many years. He recently completed an MA in English at Brock University. New work continues to appears on his blog: http://waxinggrasshopper.blogspot.com

Marcus McCann is the author of one trade collection, Soft Where (2009, Chaudiere Books), as well as six chapbooks, including The Tech/tonic Suite (2008, Rubicon), Force Quit (2008, Emergency Response Unit) and petty illness leaflet (2008, Onion Union). His work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Matrix, dANDelion, and other fine Canadian literary periodicals. He’s a host of CKCU’s Literary Landscapes and organizer of the Transgress Festival and the Naughty Thoughts Book Club. He lives in Ottawa, where he a member of the Ampers& writing group. He was awarded the 2009 John Newlove Award at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.

Amy Dennis' poetry has appeared in more than a dozen Canadian literary publications, such as CV2, Event, Queen's Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Most recently, Amy's poetry was nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Random House Creative Writing Award. In the fall of 2009, she moved from Burlington, Ontario to Wales, U.K., where she is completing her Ph.D. 

Judith Copithorne has been living and writing in Vancouver for decades. She has made many notable contributions to concrete poetry and other experimental writing through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and into this 21century. Judith is constantly changing the mediums she works in as they become available, but the core there is always her distinctive touch. Copithore is as relevant now as she was back in the days of the downtown poets of Vancouver. She was published in the 1^st issues of blew ointment and Ganglia and worked at Motion Studio and Intermedia. More recently a bibliography of her work was published by J.W. Curry in the March, 2009 issue of 1 cent.

Natalie Zina Walschots' first book of poetry, Thumbscrews, was published by Snare Books in the Fall of 2007. Her newest manuscript, Supervillains, is nearly complete. Her work has recently appeared in FOURSQUARE, Rampike, A4, Open Letter, Misunderstanding Magazine and Last Supper. She has served as the Managing Editor of filling Station and dANDelion magazines. She also co-curated the Flywheel reading series from 2005-2008.  Natalie completed her MA in English/Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. Her current base of operations is located in Toronto, where she teaches Creative Writing at a private high school. She lives in a menagerie with several humans, two cats, and a dog.

David Fujino is a Toronto-based poet, actor, and performance arts reviewer for http://www.thelivemusicreport.com/ and http://www.showtimemagazine.ca/. He recently had the good fortune to read alongside poet, writer, publisher Gus Morin at This Ain't the Rosedale Library on March 18, 2009, in Toronto's Kensington Market. Fujino's participation and production continues in his poetry, his music, theatre, and dance reviews, and in his acting.

J. Mae Barizo was born in Toronto. Shortlisted for Canada's 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and Ahsahta Press's Sawtooth Poetry Prize, she has received an International Publication Award from Atlanta Review, and was an Editor's Prize finalist for Spoon River Poetry Review. New work appears in Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Zoland Poetry and Another Chicago Magazine. She is the author of two chapbooks, "The Concert Review" and "The Marble Palace."

Scott Cowan is a writer from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Laura Notarianni graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Special Honors degree in Film Production & Screenwriting. Originally from the Rose City Welland, Ontario, Laura enjoys dabbling in many of the arts, and has been passionately writing and storytelling since she was a small child. 

Laura is presently concentrating on building her portfolio to pursue a career as a screenwriter and children’s picture-book author. Her artistic influences stem from a fascination with the coming-of-age and nostalgia, however her creative interests and inspirations are limitless, and extend from poetry and painting to religion, mysticism and North American pop culture. Laura received York University’s 2008 N.A Taylor Prize for Film for her efforts in screenwriting.

She now lives and works in downtown Toronto as a script-coordinator for a CBC television series. Next up, Laura plans on doing some post-grad globe trotting.

Susie DeCoste grew up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and completed an MA degree (2007) in English and Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, Arc, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and QWERTY. A section of her unpublished manuscript received honourable mention in the 2007 Atlantic Writing Competition for Poetry; she was awarded the 2009 Graduate Creative Writing Award from the University of Waterloo where she is currently undertaking a doctorate degree in Canadian literature.

Ingrid Ruthig is a writer, editor, visual artist, and architect. Her work has appeared across Canada and internationally, in The Malahat Review, Descant, Textbase, Magma, numerous other journals and anthologies. Her poetry won a Petra Kenney award and the Eden Mills Writers' Festival literary competition. Recent projects include a collection of her poems, an ms & artwork entitled Slipstream, the book Richard Outram - Essays on His Work (Guernica, 2010), as well as a mixed-media series based on the manuscript from which the following fragments of text are selected. She lives with her family near Toronto, where she is currently making a kaleidoscopic mess in her diningroom studio.

Anthony Brenton is the author of Near Death, Maccles; Daybreak Saint City; and A Book. He has completed 2 new novels in the past year and a slew of poetry and text. He is a Father and lives in Newfoundland where he loves and writes.

Darryl Salach resides in Mississauga, Ontario. He is the creator and chief editor of The Toronto Quarterly. His poetry has been published in many literary journals and online zines such as The Starfish Journal, Lummox Journal, Neonbeam Magazine, Battered Suitcase, The Rattlesnake Review, Heroin Love Songs, Zygote in my Coffee, Misunderstandings Magazine, and the forthcoming issue of The New York Quarterly.

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Jenny Enochsson lives in Uppsala, Sweden. She has an MA in Ethnology and Folklore and, at the moment, is studying to become a Swedish-English translator. Work is forthcoming in Spring issue of The Meadowland Review. Jenny Encochsson maintains a blog at Cinnamon and a collaborative poetry blog at Flowers of Sulfur

Sarah Ahmad lives in Pakistan. Her first chapbook is forthcoming from New Polish Beat Press and a second chap from Artistically Declined Press.

James Mc Laughlin is from Dumbarton, Scotland. His work has appeared in Stride, Otolith, Blazevox, Greatworks, NthPosition, Blackbox Manifold, gistsandpiths, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Now, TLS, the beat.

Claudette Cohen is from a leviathan corporation that moved her family every two years. Her work has appeared in: Lyric Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, Oklahoma Review, Squaw Valley Review, The Southern Anthology, Owen Wister Review, Fireweed, Mainstreet Rag, Earth's Daughters, and UWYO Magazine. Honors and awards include: Writer's residency, Ucross Foundation; Elsie Rohrbough Scholarship, U of Utah; Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, Semifinalist;  Scholarship, Squaw Valley Workshop, Poetry; Outstanding Thesis Award, Fiction, UNCW;  Heekin Group Finalist, Fiction;  Charles A. Shull Award, Poetry;  Thomas H. McDill Award, Poetry. More at http://claudelimogeswhat.blogspot.com/

Ayat Ghanem is a writer of poetry and fiction. Of Algerian origin, she was born in France and educated in the UK. Poems have been published in The Battered Suitcase, Sentinel Quaterly, Mastodon Dentist, Lynx Poetry and Poetry Super Highway.

Daniel Romo teaches high school creative writing, and lives in Long Beach, CA.  He has most recently been published in poeticdiversity, Monkeybicycle, and The Northville Review.  He is an MFA candidate at Antioch University Los Angeles.  More of his writing can be found here-   
http://danielromo.wordpress.com/   (Peyote Soliloquies)

Maggie Wack is a writer from Waltham, Massachusetts.

john patrick ayson lives in san diego where he makes various texts, visuals, & audios. He is the author of THE NONPAREIL(S), a trove of hybrid texts & literary constructs and holds a MFA in innovative writing. He has texts & visuals in the recent issues of LITnIMAGE & streetcake magazine, among others, & was a contributor to & coeditor of Fiction International.

Jean Jones, originally from Bandung, Indonesia, received a BA in English in 1986 from UNC-Wilmington, and an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry in 1988 from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Jean currently teaches Basic Skills at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has had two books of poetry published by St. Andrews Press from St Andrews College, North Carolina; the most recent, "Birds of Djakarta," was released in 2008. In addition, Jean Jones has a new book of poems entitled "Tornado" published by "Shaking Outta My Heart Press" from Wilmington, North Carolina.

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa is Associate Professor, Aichi University of Education, Japan. Her work has been published in the journals Cordite, Jacket, FourW, Otoliths, Shearsman, New American Writing, 580 Split, Tinfish, One Less, CaKe, Bateau, Eleven Eleven and Yomimono.

She has published four poetry collections: Skin Museum, Avant Books, 2006; Aquiline, Printed Matter Press, 2007; EXHIBIT C, Ahadada Books, 2008; The Meditations, Otoliths, 2009; with a 5th, incidental music forthcoming in 2010.

Whitney Eden recently graduated from the Evergreen State College, with a Bachelor of Arts. Her poetry has appeared in BlazeVOX. She’ll be pursing a MFA in New York next year and currently lives in Key West, FL.

Natalie Knight's poetry and criticism has appeared in Octopus, Jacket, H_NGM_N, moria, and Slightly West. She is the author of three chapbooks, prairies (e-chap, Scantily Clad Press), xenia (Furniture Press), and Archipelagos (Punch Press). Sections of a critical exchange with Rodrigo Toscano on performativity and poetics theater, "Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception," are forthcoming in Jacket Magazine and West Coast Line. Originally from Washington State, she teaches writing and studies poetry, poetics and literary theory in the PhD program at University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.

Jared Schickling’s work—poetry, prose, translation—has appeared or will in The Argotist, Bombay Gin, Big Bridge, The Café Review, Circumference, Ecopoetics, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Knock, Little Red Leaves, Otoliths, The Texas Poetry Review, Word For/Word, and elsewhere.  He has three books of poetry with Blazevox Books, Aurora, submissions, and O (2007, 08, 09), and is an editor at New American Press (print), Mayday Magazine (online), Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).  He was born and raised in Lockport, NY.

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Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, born and living in Venice, Italy. His poems have been published extensively in literary magazines in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere. His poetry collection, “Re-Emerging”, was published as an on-line book by Gatto Publishing in 2006.

Jess Nash is originally from Essex in the UK, but currently lives in Ohio. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Middlesex University, London, and is studying for an MA in English Literature in Ohio. Jess has had several book reviews published in GUDMagazine as well as music reviews in Panic Magazine, a local music magazine for Essex, UK.

John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Shoots and Vines, Gloom Cupboard, Rust and Moth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Counterexample Poetics, and others.

Sarah Kelly is a recent graduate from an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom. She plans to study at the San Francisco Centre for the Book early next year.

Steve Nash is a writer from York UK and should be doing research for his Ph.D studies. He is a qualified teacher but despite this earns his keep (kind of) as a musician playing to anyone foolish enough to stay in the bar. His work has appeared in London Grip, Ouroboros Review, Read This Magazine, Reflection's Edge, The Cartier Street Review, Word Salad, Haiku Ramblings, Smoke and the Poetry Warrior.

Gillian Prew lives in Scotland. She has a philosophy degree and a succession of low-paid, menial jobs to her credit. Some of her poems can be found at Eviscerator Heaven, Up the Staircase, The Glasgow Review, Eleutheria, The Recusant, Heavy Bear, Counterexample Poetics, Full of Crow and The Plebian Rag.  She is responsible for three collections of poems.

Travis Macdonald lives and writes in Santa Fe, NM, where he works in advertising. His work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Cricket Online Review, E-Ratio, Jacket, Hot Whiskey, Otoliths, Wheelhouse and elsewhere.

His first full-length collection, The O Mission Repo, an erasure of The 9/11 Commission Report is available at www.fact-simile.com.

A. M. Spence was born in Manchester and currently lives in Manchester. She was awarded a BA in English Literature and American Literature from The University of Manchester and in 2009 completed an MA in Creative Writing (poetry) at the same institution.

Polymeris A Voglis studied Mathematics in University of Athens. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Glasgow Review, Eviscerator Heaven and Counterexample Poetics. His poetry is due to appear in Eleutheria and in Danse Macabre.