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Andrew Titus
Andrew is is a teacher at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. His book, Sweet Mother Prophecy is available from Broken Jaw Press.
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D.C. Reid
D.C. is a West Coast author who walked out onto the Alberta prairie west of Calgary when he was three years old (1955) and never came back. When he was five he reached his hand into a stream and pulled out a trout. His life has been about water since that day. He was published in MacLeans when he was ten and thought the writing life would be easy. What an innocent. Since that time he has been published in more than 50 literary magazines in Canada, the United States, the U.K., India and Mexico, with his work having been translated into Spanish and Hindi. On the literary side of his writing life, he has published four books of poetry and one novel.
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Darryl Whetter
Darryl is coordinator of the Creative Program at Dalhousie. He just released The Push & the Pull, a novel of sex, death and bicycling, and his second book for Gooselane Editions.
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David Adler
David is in the midst of PhD candidacy at a Canadian university, where he teaches a course in Prairie Fiction. He is a fervent examiner of Canadian writing and writes on his own blog Canadian(ist).
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Dawn-Aeron Wason
Dawn is living in New Brunswick, where she is writing her book and making things: poems, stories, photographs, books of writing & art, music (as Girlsexplode), scarves, cards, bags, happenings… She offers these via her indie entity, Sublime Creatures.
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Elaine McCluskey
Elaine is the author of the novel Going Fast, published by Goose Lane Editions. It explores the boxing scene in Halifax and beyond in the 1990s, with sketches of the world of newspaper reporting.
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Eric Hill
Eric is the editor of branta.
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Hal Niedzviecki
Hal is a novelist, culture critic, and the founder and current fiction editor of Broken Pencil: the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. His book The Peep Diaries will be published by City Lights Books in June 2009.
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Ian LeTourneau
Ian is currently living in Athabasca, Alberta, about 150 kms north of Edmonton, having moved here in the fall of 2004 from New Brunswick. Presently, he splits his time between his job as a Indivudualized Study Tutor (ie. course instructor) with Athabasca University, and as a stay-at-home dad. In the fall of 2006, Defining Range, his chapbook of poems, was published by Gaspereau Press. And in the fall of 2008, Thistledown Press published Terminal Moraine, his full-length poetry collection. In the summer of 2008, he joined the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of Alberta as a Member at Large.
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Jacques Poitras
Jacques is CBC Radio’s provincial affairs reporter for New Brunswick, having started back in 2000. He has written numerous award-winning feature documentaries and has appeared on Radio-Canada, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy was a finalist for the BC Award for Canadian Non-fiction, a prestigous national prize, and won the 2008 Best Atlantic Published Book Award.
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James MacGregor
James is a new Vancouverite, was once a young Maritimer. He writes expository articles about the guts of computer programs, and remains endlessly fascinated by explaining complex systems to non-native-English readers the world over.
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Jonathan Ball
Jonathan is a writer, filmmaker, and scholar, with three books of poetry forthcoming: Ex Machina (BookThug, 2009); Clockfire (Coach House, 2010); and The Words of the Book (also BookThug, co-written with kevin mcpherson eckhoff). His film Spoony B has appeared on The Comedy Network, and he is completing a PhD in English literature at the University of Calgary.
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Karen Dunn Skinner
Karen is a lawyer who writes fiction as an antidote to writing legal documents. She has also delivered numerous works of policy, regulation, research and contract to clients over the years, all of which were, of course, non-fiction. Karen lives in Montreal with her husband, two children and a rabbit.
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Kathryn is the author most recently of the novel Perfecting. She teaches at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and online through the New York Times Knowledge Network.
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Margaret Sweatman
Margaret is a novelist, playwright, and lyricist. She teaches literature and creative writing and performs with the Broken Songs Band. Her three previous novels garnered Sweatman the McNally Robinson Prize for the Manitoba Book of the Year, the John Hirsch Award for the most promising Manitoba writer, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Award. Her new novel The Players publishes with Goose Lane Editions this fall.

Mark Jarman
Mark is a teacher of creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. His new collection, My White Planet: Stories, is available from Thomas Allen.
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Mireille Eagan
Mireille is a freelance arts writer and more-than-interim-but-less-than-permanent curator at the Charlottetown Confederation Centre of the Arts.  She is forever transitioning from child stardom to adult stardom.
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Naomi K. Lewis
Naomi is is a writer, editor, and teacher in Calgary. Her first novel Cricket in a Fist, was published by Goose Lane Editions.
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Nathaniel G. Moore
Nathaniel is the author of Let’s Pretend We Never Met (Pedlar, 2007). He is an editor at Danforth Review and Broken Pencil.
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Rob McLennan
Rob is an Ottawa writer and editor. The author of a dozen poetry collections, most recently The Ottawa City Project and a compact of words, as well as a collection of essays, subverting the lyric: essays and Ottawa: The Unknown City. As an editor, he is putting the finishing touches on collections of essays on the works of Andrew Suknaski, John Newlove and George Bowering, as well as There Is No Mountain: new & selected poems by Andrew Suknaski. Editor/publisher of above/ground press and STANZAS magazine, rob regularly posts essays, reviews and other writing at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.
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Shane Neilson
Shane is originally from Oromocto and attended the University of New Brunswick before completing medical school at Dalhousie University. He published Exterminate My Heart, his first book of poetry, with Frog Hollow Press in 2008 and has Meniscus, his first trade edition, coming out with Biblioasis in 2009. He will publish Alice and George with Goose Lane in 2011.
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Sharon Harris
Sharon is Books Editor at Torontoist, and a regular contributor to Word: Canada’s Magazine For Readers + Writers. Her first book, AVATAR, was published by The Mercury Press in 2006. She also has a wonderful website at iloveyougalleries.com.
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Stephen Clare
Stephen is a freelance journalist, author, poet, musician, photographer and television and radio show host in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has written for over 120 local, regional, national and international publications, including the Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire and The Epoch Times. Stephen is currently working on his newest book, Spindrift; the Greatest Atlantic Canadian Books Ever Written; - due for release in September 2009.
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Tal Bachman
Tal is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. He was a recent contributor to No Such Thing as a Free Ride, a book of hitch hiking stories from Goose Lane Editions.
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Tammy Armstrong
Tammy is the author of 3 collections of poetry including Take Us Quietly, published by Goose Lane in 2006. Her first collection, Bogman’s Music, put out by Anvil Press in 2001, won her the distinction of youngest author ever shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award.
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Tania Hershman
Tania is a former science journalist originally from London. After 15 years in Jerusalem, she and her partner are relocating to Bristol, UK. Her first short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories (www.thewhiteroadandotherstories.com), is published by Salt Modern Fiction. She has had three stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is the founder and editor of The Short Review (www.theshortreview.com), a site dedicated to reviewing short story collections and anthologies.
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