Contributors to Issue 3: August 2011

Editors

Emma Healey (Editor-in-Chief) is a Montreal-based writer.

Michael Chaulk (Associate Poetry Editor) is a licensed Canadian seaman but also a writer living in Montreal. His work has been published in PRISM international. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Void Magazine at Concordia University.

Richard Rosenbaum (Associate Fiction Editor) is a writer and editor from Toronto, and exists occasionally in other places in the world also. He’s Associate Fiction Editor at Broken Pencil Magazine and editor of the short story anthology Can’tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine which you can examine at killcanlit.ca. He wrote a story about a punk band, both of which (the story and the band) are called “The Oughts,” that you can buy for ninety-nine cents and read for the rest of your life at FoundPress.com.

Fiction

Jon Paul Fiorentino (guest editor) is a writer and editor. His first novel is Stripmalling (ECW, 2009) which was shortlisted for the 2009 Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction. His most recent book of poetry is Indexical Elegies (Coach House Books, 2010). He is the author of the poetry books The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006) which was shortlisted for the 2006 A.M. Klein Award for Poetry and Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie – a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he is the Editor of Matrix magazine and Snare Books.

Amanda Ackerman lives in Los Angeles. She is co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She writes as part of the collaborative projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and U.N.F.O. (The Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization). Her publications include three chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), and the forthcoming I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8). Her work can also be found in a variety of literary publications, including, most recently, Little Red Leaves, The Encyclopedia Project: Volume F-K, Joyland, TH.CE Magazine, Wikiloot, and as a part of the collaboration Explanation as Composition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, artist, and performer. His many publications include five poetry collections, including the recent The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House) and, out in May, The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts, BookThug.). He is the author of two fiction collections, and a collaborative novel. Franzlations: The Imaginary Kafka Parables (New Star) written with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley, will appear in Fall 2011. He was the co-winner of the 2010 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham). His visual works have appeared widely both in print and online. Barwin currently lives in Hamilton with his family where he is at work on the great Canadian Jewish pirate novel. His blog is serifofnottingham.blogspot.com

Jessica Rose Marcotte was born in Montreal and attends Concordia University. She enjoys scuba diving, rock climbing, cake decorating, road trips and reading. She is a blue belt in Chito-Ryu karate and speaks parts of five languages. Her work has been published in The Link, Concordia’s independent student newspaper and in Peripheries, an anthology of short fiction by the 426 Collective. She likes words.

Poetry

Elizabeth Bachinsky (guest editor) is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio (BookThug, 2005), Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood Editions, 2006), and God of Missed Connections (Nightwood Editions, 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Kobzar Literary Award (2009), the Governor General’s Award for Poetry (2006), the Bronwen Wallace Award (2004) and a Pushcart Prize (2009) and has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and on film in Canada, the United States, France, Ireland, England, and China. She lives in East Vancouver where she is an instructor of creative writing and Poetry Editor for Event magazine.

Melissa Bull‘s work has been featured in such publications as Matrix, Maisonneuve, Event and carte blanche. Melissa works as a writer and editor. She lives in Montreal.

Heather Davidson has a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University, where she won the 2011 Irving Layton Award for Fiction. Her writing can be found in publications including The Antigonish Review, Descant, and The New Quarterly. She has a website at www.heatherdavidson.ca.

Mat Laporte is co-editor and co-founder of the micro-press publisher Ferno House. He is the author of the chapbooks Demons and Chance Poetics. He lives in Toronto where he is an undergrad at York University.

Kent MacCarter is a writer and resident in Melbourne, Australia, where he lives with his wife, son and two cats. His poetry and a smattering of non-fiction has appeared in anthologies, journals and newspapers internationally. He is currently involved on the board of SPUNC: The Small Press Network and is also an active member in Melbourne PEN.

Michael Nardone is co-editor with Kathleen Brown of the forthcoming issue of dandelion called performance/MACHINE.

Daniel Zomparelli is the editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine. His first book of poems Davie Street Translations is forthcoming from Talonbooks.

Nonfiction

Mark Bernstein (BSc, MD, MHSc, FRCSC) is a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital and a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He currently holds the Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair in International Surgery. His main area of clinical focus is caring for patients with brain tumours. He is also interested in helping advance neurosurgery in the developing world where he has made many visits to operate and teach mostly in Asia and Africa. He is a dedicated educator, having won numerous teaching awards. In 2003 he completed a Masters of Health Science in Bioethics. His main interests in bioethics are medical error, novel resource utilization, research ethics, and the patient experience. He investigates these areas using conducting qualitative research. He has published over 300 scientific papers and book chapters, and a Textbook of Neuro-Oncology. He has also written about 130 non-medical stories, many of which attempt to bridge the gap between doctors and the public. He and his wife Lee have 3 grown daughters and always dogs.

Gayathri Vaidyanathan is an Indian-Canadian multimedia journalist. Her stories have appeared in Nature, Greenwire/ The New York Times, WNYC Radio, The Wall Street Journal and other places. She has degrees in Journalism from Columbia University and Biochemistry from McMaster University in Canada.