Darrell Epp lives on the western shore of Lake Ontario. His poetry has been published in dozens of magazines, including Poetry Ireland, Maisonneuve and Tulane Review. His first collection, Imaginary Maps, was published by Signature Editons in 2009.
Megan Findlay’s first novel, an M.A. thesis at Concordia University, earned the David McKeen Award for best thesis by a graduating student in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in Canadian Notes and Queries and was short listed in the 2009 CBC Literary Awards competition. She lives in Ottawa with a ginger cat.
Kasper Hartman has published poetry and essays in Headlight, Hotel Critical Review and Canadian Poetry. He is a recent winner of the Wynne Francis Award for Graduate Study in Canadian Poetry.
Richard Outram was born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1930 and educated at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He published more than a dozen books of poetry and won the City of Toronto Book Award for his 1999 collection Benedict Abroad. Outram’s other poetry collections include Exsultate, Jubilate (1966), Turns and Other Poems (1975), The Promise of Light (1979), Man in Love (1985), Hiram and Jenny (1988), Mogul Recollected (1993), and Dove Legend (2001). His work is the subject of a book-length study, ‘Her kindled shadow…’:An Introduction to the Work of Richard Outram (2002), by Peter Sanger. Outram married painter and wood engraver Barbara Howard in 1957 and together they produced many books, pamphlets, cards, and broadsides under their own private press imprint, The Gauntlet Press. Work from the press is included in many prestigious public collections including those of The National Library of Canada and The Library of Congress. The press was the subject of special exhibitions at both Robarts Library in Toronto and Memorial University in St. John’s. Richard Outram died in 2005 in Port Hope, Ontario. His collaboration with illustrator Thoreau MacDonald, South of North: Images of Canada, was published posthumously in 2007. Author George Murray recently ranked Richard Outram as “hands down the greatest poet Canada has produced.”
Joyce Randall’s fiction has been featured in Zok magazine and Rampike. She lives in Vancouver.
Marko Sijan is a Montreal author and teacher. His work has appeared in Maisonneuve and on the website of The Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
Zachariah Wells is a poet and critic and the author of six books, including his new poetry collection Track & Trace (Biblioasis). He is also the editor of Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets (Biblioasis, 2008).
