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LESLEY PASQUIN is a Montreal educator, writer and poet. Her works have appeared in montreal serai and carte blanche. She currently teaches in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.She had published a chapbook entitled "Alabaster in a Stone Wall," and does readings in various venues in the city including The Yellow Door, Poetry Plus and West Island Readers Electric. She recently was awarded Poem of the Year 2008 from Room Magazine for her poem Gabriel which will be published in the spring 2009 issue.
MICHAEL PENNY was born in Australia and educated at the Universities of Alberta and New Mexico. His poetry has appeared in 30 publications, most notably, The Malahat Review, Dandelion, Poetry Canada, The Globe and Mail, among others. He currently practices law in Edmonton; his other publications include articles on insurance and insolvency matters.
JOHN PICKERNELL, born in Toronto in 1966, has been writing poems, stories and songs since the late eighties. John’s poetry has a distinct urban backdrop and his poem, Helping Bobby close the shop, was winner of the 2003 Toronto Poetry Competition. He resides in Toronto with his wife and three sons.
CLAUDIA COUTU RADMORE is a Montreal – born writer and educator. A graduate of Queen’s University School, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1984. As Bondi Studios, she has published several poetry and fiction collections, her own and others. Her poetry and prose has been published in magazines. A member of Haiku Canada, she has presented papers on Japanese poetic forms, and performed renku in Canada, Boston and New York. In 2005, and 2006 she was the consulting editor of Raw NerVz, the Canadian haiku review. She is currently one of the editors of Gusts, the Canadian tanka magazine. Her art consists of painting, drawing and the designing of book covers. She lives and works in Carleton Place, Ontario.
STEPHEN RONEY was born in the wagon of a travelling show, near Gananoque, Ontario. Years ago, he graduated from Queen's University, also in Ontario. He went to Syracuse for postgraduate studies, not in Ontario. Past president of the Editors' Association of Canada, now teaching at Hoseo University, Korea, very far from Ontario. Host of the Seoul Mystery Tours. The wagon rumbles ever westward on. Wagons ho! http://hoseo.ac.kr/~dong/roney.html
Born in 1946, ALLAN ROSE was educated at York University and U. of T. In his thirty year teaching career, he specialized in English Literature and Creative Writing, especially Poetry. "The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart" was launched this past January and it has been very welll received - love poems are never out of style, so it seems. He also has eleven poems in the 2010 national environmental anthology "A Verdant Green", edited By David Clink, and featuring such luminaries as Raymond Souster, bill bissett and Sandra Katsuri, to name but a few. Works in progress include "Songs of My City" (poetry about the people and places of his beloved Toronto) and the novella "Hockey Night in New Orleans
R.D. ROY was raised in Montreal, Quebec. His mixed Anglo/Francophone
heritage and working class background are often reflected in his writing.
He has published two collections of short stories (Panegyric Press) and a
short novel, A Pre-emptive Kindness, (Hidden Brook Press). His short
stories and poems have appeared in several anthologies and Montreal’s
Matrix magazine. Roy's first book of poetry, Three Cities, will be
released by Hidden Brook Press in early 2008.
SASHA SAINT-AUBIN was born in Toronto, began writing at age 11 and was mentored by Gwendolyn MacEwen. Writing has appeared in Canadian Forum, Waves, Dialogue, Room of One’s Own, Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She. In 2005, the poem, “Death Song,” was shortlisted for Arc’s Diana Brebner Award. Sasha lives in Ottawa and is a freelance researcher, writer, and editor, and a member of the Editors’ Association of Canada.
MATT SANTATERESA has a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto, and a Masters degree in English from Concordia University in Montréal where he currently lives and works. In addition to numerous poems, published in various literary magazines, he has also written prose and non-fiction.
MEL SARNESE is the poet-in-residence at The Markham Stouffville Hospital where she is facilitator of poetry workshops in the area of mental health.
KAREN SCHINDLER lives in London, Ontario. She is a part-time student at the University of Western Ontario and a co-director of the Poetry London Reading Series.
MICHAELA SEFLER is an metaphysical poet. Her poetry is esoteric drawing on ancient writings to convey a message of hope and survival, highlighting nature and different aspects of the beauty of creation. She has nine published compilations of poetry:Still True, A Fortress in my Heart, The Sun is Hot, Through the Ages, Seven Stars, Healing Tree and TO SUMMON ANGELS the metaphysical, Seven Days and Gems. She hosts the poetry and transcendence radio network. Michaela has been featured in various print journals: Prism Quarterly, Ancient heart magazine, The Taj Mahal Review, Faerie Nation Mag,Decanto Magazine, THE CURIOUS RECORD - Dare 2 , The Cherry Blossom Review, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Lonestarsmagazine, Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, TCM Reviews, Tarot Canada. Anthologies include Poetry Vibes, Best Poets, Prominent Voices in Poetry, Namaste Fiji: The International Anthology of Poetry. And has been featured on various websites e-zines and online journals.
PAUL SERRALHEIRO, a native of Portugal, has lived in Canada since 1958. He presently freelances as a writer specializing in music and literature and teaches English at Dawson College. A published poet, he is also a guitarist and songwriter currently with a jazz band in Montréal.
APRIL A. SEVERIN is the author of five chapbooks and two
websites. Her poems are widely published and 2 of them won Honourable
Mention Awards in the
The Ontario Poetry Society's Second Time Around Contest 2004. She also
belongs to the Canadian Poetry Association, Hamilton Poetry Centre, and
the
Tower Poetry Society. April's future plans include a spoken word
recording
given that reading poetry is intergral to her life's work.
Earth Partners Publishing http://www3.sympatico.ca/aseverin/earthpartners
MICHAEL SHAIN was born in Toronto and attended the
University of Toronto (BA), followed by Concordia University (MA) and
the University of Windsor (LLB). He has lived on Manitoulin Island
since 1990, where he is the Director of the Legal Clinic located on the
Sucker Creek First Nations. He teaches the occasional Distance
Education Course through Laurentian University and spends his free time
in the bush, which is the inspiration for much of his poetry. His work
is included in Northern Prospects, Your Scrivener, 1998. shainm@olap.org
CLAIRE SHARPE received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her poems were shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards, and have appeared in journals in Canada and the UK, including CV2 and The Antigonish Review. Her essay on the work of writer Tove Jansson was published in TOVE JANSSON REDISCOVERED(Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Claire received a 2008 Level 1 Writer’s Grant from the Toronto Arts Council.
TRISH SHIELDS was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but grew up in Europe. She has studied creative writing at the Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario. 'Soul Speak', a book of poetry published by Troubadour Books, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2001. Trish has two books of poetry published and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and her poetry and short stories have been published internationally. Her first fictional novel, ‘Inferno’ is published by Baycrest Books. Trish’s first chapbook, Coast Lines, is co-authored by Katherine L. Gordon, released in February 2007. She is a member of the Canadian Federation of Poets and the Canadian-Cuban Literary Alliance. She was a judge for the Acorn-Plantos Award in 2005 and is currently judging the LCP Poetic License Contest for Youth. trishardent@shaw.ca
BARBARA SIMLER began writing poetry in the early 1990s, stopped for a period of six years, and started again in 1999. Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain,and other literary journals, and on CBC Radio's Alberta Anthology. Her poem "Dreamliner" received an honourable mention in the 2001 Prairie Fire poetry competition. She lives in Edmonton.
DOROTHY SJÖHOLM is a retired English teacher who lives and writes in Toronto. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and literary publications in Canada and the UK including Aesthetica, lichen, Open Window II, Renaissance Conspiracy, and Signatures. She has received awards from The Scarborough Arts Council, The Writers' Circle of Durham Region and The Ontario Poetry Society, and is currently shortlisted in lichen's "Tracking A Serial Poet Contest."
CAROL A STEPHEN, native Torontonian, moved to the Ottawa area in 1987. In 2006, Carol shared her work for the first time at Sasquatch and Tree Reading Series, Ottawa, at Page & Turners and Read's bookstores, Carleton Place, and at Café Merea, McDonalds Corners. A member of Canadian Authors Association and Arts Carleton Place, Carol writes the Arts Carleton Place column, "Arts Alive!" for the Carleton Place Canadian. Carol has not yet published her poetry.
DIANA STOKES lives and writes in the historic and scenic Crowsnest Pass. Her poetry has appeared in trade publications, anthologies and literary journals. Diana has at one time or another made her home in a number of small towns and cities across Canada. Her work reflects that experience. www.uponthewind.ca
KATHLEEN SZOKE has published in several journals and anthologies, including Ascent Aspirations, Hammered Out, and Main Street. She has been a Fringe reader at the Eden Mills Writer's Festival, and won an award for a short story. She has done poetry workshops for children, including self-publishing school anthologies. She is finishing an Honours English degree, and is currently at work on her first poetry collection "Walking Backwards Toward Paradise".
LYNN TAIT Born in Willowdale. Resides in Sarnia. Published in
various journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S and Australia,
including Windsor Review, Carousel, Quills, Lichen, and Contemporary Verse
2. Has won numerous awards. Published a chapbook "Breaking Away" by
Wine@Cheese Press in 2002.
HEATHER TISDALE-NISBET was born in Ontario, in 1960. She graduated from McGill University in 1982 with a B.A. in History. Since then, she has held a variety of office jobs. Her poetry has appeared in such literary publications as Prophetic Voices, Whetstone, Tower Poetry, among others.
MARY TRAFFORD lives in Chelsea, Quebec. Her poetry is just beginning to "get out" and has made it into bywords (1995 and 2003), (muse)Letters (1996), CV2 (1998), ŽFeminist Flavours" (1998) and various chapbook projects. In 2002, she received the inaugural Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry, sponsored by Arc, Canada's National Poetry Magazine. trafford@magma.ca
URSULA VAIRA has poems in journals and in anthologies by Hawthorne, Outlaw Editions, Anvil Press, and Quills. Her poem, A Thousand Miles, is from a paddle with Roy Henry Vickers in the west coast Salish canoe Nunsulsailus; Frog River, a long poem about a stay in a hunter's cabin in the remote northern Rockies, has been accepted for Portage Anthology. She placed second in 2009 Literary Writes for "Mr. Bailey."
JANET VICKERSpoems have appeared in anthologies Shoreline -Water Poems, Down in the Valley, and literary journals such as The Antigonish Review, Grain and Sub-Terrain, and online in nthposition. In 2002 her poem, You Were There, won the poetry category of the third annual Vancouver International Writers (& Readers) Festival Short Story and Poetry Contest. You Were There is the title of her chapbook published in 2006.
EMMANUELLE VIVIER is a translator. She was born in Paris, France, but has lived in Canada for 20 years. Her English and French work has appeared in Room of One's Own, The Dalhousie Review, The Windsor Review, Quills, Tower Poetry Society (McMaster University), Ascent and Black Moss Press anthologies. emmanuelle@cogeco.ca
JOANNA B. WACOWICH (also know as Asia- pronounced Ashà) presently resides and has spent most of her life in Alberta, Canada. She is a recognized bilingual, published poet, lyricist, songwriter and an event writer. She is currently producing and directing a poetic CD series in both English and Polish. Asia is a passionate, sincere writer. It is her objective to serve and inspire the community and the world through her poems and songs. Her purely spiritual and inspirational compositions bring out deep and uplifting “World Healing” messages to the world. Her poetry is often narrated on the radio CJSR 88.5 FM as well as on CKER and KYTM California. She has also been a special guest on these radio stations, where she was interviewed as a poet, lyricist, songwriter and an event writer. Her professional affiliations include: SOCAN, ASCAP, Writers League of Alberta and The League of Canadian Poets.She was nominated Woman of Distinction in Arts and Culture(2005),awarded Editor's Choice Award (2005) and Poetry Ambassador (2006). asiasdivineescapes@shaw.ca
JOANNA M. WESTON, Canadian, lives in Western
Canada; married, 3 sons, two cats. A writer,
knitter, and gardener. Is a full-time writer of
poetry, short-stories, children’s books and poetry
reviews. Has published internationally for many
years in journals and anthologies Has two
middle-readers, "The Willow Tree Girl" and "Those
Blue Shoes", in print; also "A Summer Father",
poetry, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.
LAURIE ANNE WHITT has been published in various Canadian magazines, including Prism International, Quarry, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Canada Review, among others. Her work has also appeared in New Voices: An Anthology of New Canadian Poets. She is currently living on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan.
BARBARA WILLIAMS writes poetry and nonfiction. Published in Canadian, U.S. and Australian literary magazines and journals. Columnist on Australian Poetry for Poetry Canada Review, 1984-88. Her books include: In Other Words. Interviews with Australian Poets,(Rodopi Editions: Amsterdam & Atlanta, 1988); A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada. The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton (new edition), University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Buffalo, London, 2008). Available for poetry readings.
CARLETON WILSON lives in the West Toronto Junction and
is the publisher and general editor of Junction Books. He graduated
from the University of Toronto in 2000 with a specialist BA in English
Literature and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal in Poetry in 1998 for
his sequence of poems titled "Junction Sonnets". http://www.junctionbooks.com
JOHN J. GUINEY YALLOP is a parent, a partner and a poet. John grew up in a small outport community in Newfoundland. John wrote poetry as an adolescent and as a young adult. His earliest work was published in The Newfoundland Quarterly and The Newfoundland Herald. For his doctoral dissertation, John used poetic inquiry to explore emotions, identities and communities. John’s doctoral studies enabled him to reawaken the poet and to rediscover his poetic voice. Shortly after his dissertation defence in March of 2008, John was hired by Acadia University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. Since his reawakening and rediscovery, John has been writing and publishing poetry. His writing draws on place and memory and opens spaces for conversation. Readers and listeners are invited into those spaces, and invited to bring their own places and their own memories with them.
