GREGORY BETTS is the author of five books of poetry, including The Others Raisd in Me (2009) and If Language (2005). He is Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University. His book Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations was recently published by University of Toronto Press. Visit gregorybetts.wordpress.com.
GEORGE BOWERING is a poet who has been around for quite a while. The ‘La Manzanilla’ quatrains are related to another extended poem written in that fishing village in Jalisco. It is called ‘Los Pájaros de Tenacatita,’ published as a chapbook by Nose-in-Book Press (West Kootenay, BC).
KAYLA CZAGA’s writing has appeared in ARC, The Antigonish Review, CV2 and QWERTY, among others. She has won The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry, been long-listed for the CBC Canada Writes Creative Nonfiction Contest, and published in the Best Canadian Poetry series. She lives in Vancouver and is completing her MFA at UBC.
CARMEN DERKSON is a poet and critic interested in acts of refashioning and theories of coexistence in 19th century and contemporary literatures. She has recent creative and critical publications in Substance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Literature and various other literary magazines and chapbooks.
JULIE ELIOPOULOS’s poetry has previously appeared in The New Quarterly and Vallum. She lives in Milton, ON.
DANIELA ELZA’s work has appeared nationally and internationally in well over 60 publications. the weight of dew, her debut poetry collection, was published by Mother Tongue in 2012. Her next collection, milk tooth bane bone, was published by Leaf Press in 2013.
DAVID INGHAM is an associate professor of English at St. Thomas University. He enjoys acting, playing bridge, canoeing and doing cryptic crosswords and wickedly difficult Sudoku puzzles.
MICHAEL LaPOINTE is a writer and literary journalist in Vancouver. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement.
ALEX LESLIE has published a collection of stories, People Who Disappear (Freehand, 2012)—nominated for a Lambda Award for Best Debut Fiction—and a chapbook of microfictions, 20 Objects for the New World (Nomados, 2011). Visit alexleslie.wordpress.com
KIRSTEN MADSEN lives in Whitehorse, YT. Her fiction has been published in Prairie Fire. In 2011 she was a finalist in the Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers.
TRISH MATSON teaches English and Women’s Studies at Douglas College where she recently developed a course featuring the popular Nordic thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She has previously published reviews in EVENT.
NYLA MATUK is the author of Sumptuary Laws (Véhicule, 2012)—short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award — and Oneiric, a chapbook (Frog Hollow, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Maisonneuve, ARC, The Walrus, Literary Review of Canada, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 and elsewhere.
MARK MUSHET is a photographer, videographer, art director, book-cover designer and publisher. He is currently working in a medium he abandoned 15 years ago, but is now happily reacquainted with: high-def poetics.
VINCENT PAGÉ has recently been published in Flash and SmokeLong Quarterly. He lives in Victoria, BC, though plans to move either to France or Mongolia in the near future to finish his first collection of poetry.
JULIE PAUL’s first short-fiction collection, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash), was published in 2008. Her work has most recently appeared in The Dalhousie Review, PRISM international, QWERTY and The Rusty Toque. She lives in Victoria, BC.
RYAN PIERONI is a creative writing student at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is an aspiring writer of both poetry and prose, and is positively thrilled to have his work included in EVENT.
PETER RICHARDSON’s most recent collection is Sympathy for the Couriers (2007). A new book of poems, Bit Parts for Fools, will appear in Fall 2013. He lives in Gatineau, QC.
S. KENNEDY SOBOL lives in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in PRISM international, Papirmasse and The Journey Prize Stories 20 (McClelland & Stewart, 2008).
CATHY STONEHOUSE is a former editor of EVENT. She reviews fiction for Literary Review of Canada. Her most recent books are Something About the Animal (short fiction; Biblioasis, 2011) and Grace Shiver (poetry; Inanna, 2011), which was long-listed for the ReLit Award.
NICK THRAN’s second collection, Earworm (Nightwood Editions, 2011), won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He lives in Montreal.
TOM WAYMAN’s recent books include poetry (Dirty Snow, Harbour, 2012), fiction (the novel Woodstock Rising, Dundurn, 2009) and non-fiction (Songs Without Price, Institute for Coastal Research, 2008). Since 2010 he has resumed full-time duties as Squire of Appledore, his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern BC.
JEREMY WHISTON was born in Earltown, NS. In the spring and summer he cooks for tree planters in northern BC.
ROB WINGER’s latest book is The Chimney Stone (Nightwood Editions, 2010) and his previous one, Muybridge’s Horse (Nightwood, 2007), was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University, he lives in the hills northeast of Toronto, where he teaches at Trent.
