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Stan Persky
is a Vancouver- and Berlin-based philosopher and writer. His new book, Topic Sentence: A Writer's Education will be published in spring 2007. Tom Sandborn lives in Vancouver, B.C. Charles Christopherson is a researcher who lives in Nanaimo, B.C. with his librarian-wife, Frances Gordon Lockheed is a hard-to-find Toronto writer and the editor of www.dooneyscafe.com John Harris is the author of story books Small Rain, Other Art and Tungsten John, lives with Vivien Lougheed, author of Central America by Chickenbus, Kluane National Park Hiking Guide and Forbidden Mountains, a Journey through Tibet Christina Varga lives in Toronto, has surprisingly long hair. She designs newspapers, and occasionally runs them.. Merrily Weisbord lives and works in Montreal, some of the time, Prevost, Quebec and Mexico the rest. Bill King is a Toronto-based musician, jazz festival director and co-publisher of The Jazz Report. He loves to shop at Loblaws. Sharon Thesen lives and writes in Vancouver and rides her bike in a forest fire burn outside Kelowna, B.C. Wally Hourback lives and works in North Bay, Ontario. Dzevad Karahasan is a Bosnian writer and dramatist. He is the author of Sarajevo: Exodus of a City Lanny Beckman lives in Vancouver and is the former publisher of New Star Books. Ryan Knighton lives in Vancouver, teaches at a college in North Vancouver, and peers at the world with a strange but distinctive focus. He just signed a whopping book contract based on a series of pieces that appeared on this site, and his publisher made us erase them. Daniel Gawthrop writes from Bangkok, where he works as a copy editor for The Nation, an English language Thai daily, while scribbling notes for his fourth book. Myrna Kostash lives in Edmonton when she's not traveling in Eastern Europe. George Bowering lives in Vancouver, and dreams of Trieste. Designated hitter for the Vancouver Paperbacks baseball team and occasionally for the Dooney's 42's. Michael Burtt This week Michael Burtt is a writer and line cook living in Waterloo, Ontario Tom Sito A twenty six year veteran of animated film production, his screen credits include most of the respected feature-length animated films you can think of, including Who Framed Roger Rabbitt? Dinosaur, Antz, Shrek and Fantasia 2000. Frank Davis is an insider living on the edges of the Pacific Ocean and the Canadian publishing industry. Raywat Deonandan is an epidemiologist and writer currently living in Washington, D.C. see www.deonandan.com Meryl Duprey drives a taxi in Williams Lake, B.C., and once got lost in the world's biggest clear-cut with a busload of Sihk nationalists. He is not accident prone. John Frem is a 46-year-old chef and roofing contractor with two unpublished novels. Max Fawcett was born in Vancouver, lives in Toronto, and wishes that he was cool enough to make it in Montreal. Visit his website at maxfawcett.com. Pauline Holdstock has published novels, poetry and short fiction in Canada, the U.K. and Germany. Her most recent book is The Turning(New Star Books). She lives in Sidney, B.C. Brian Panhuyzen his collection of short stories, The Death of the Moon, was published by Cormorant Books. He has just finished a novel entitled Night is a Shadow Cast by the World. Jacqueline Swartz lives in Toronto and sometimes in San Francisco. She writes for mass-circulation magazines and has completed a novel, A Cure For Loneliness in Paris. Eric Blair is a freelance Canadian journalist with sarcasm to spare. Laurent Brondel is a musician and writer living in rural Maine, he can be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , his work is available on is website at http://www.laurentbrondel.com/. Trevor Boddy has worked as an urban designer, art curator and architecture professor throughout the west, and is winner of the Alberta Book of the Year Prize for the critical biography The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal. Douglas Ord is a novelist and historian whose most recent book is a critical history of the National Gallery of Canada, published by Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press in 2003. He also produces the website Lear’s Shadow at http://home.eol.ca/~dord Bruce Serafin lives in Vancouver. His first book, Colin's Big Thing, has just been released. A collection of essays is forthcoming. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Vivien Lougheed is a world traveller and the author of numerous travel books, including Central America by Chicken Bus, Forbidden Mountains and Bolivia. She lives in Prince George, BC. Tanya Paz lives in Vancouver and works for the Co-operative Auto Network. Joe Fuoco lives in Vancouver and works for Canada Post. "Buds" is his first published piece. Sheila Williams works as a translator and interpreter. She divides her time between Vancouver and Lac la Hache, B.C. David Banerjee is a guy that lives in Toronto, and writes in his apartment. He teaches creative writing courses, but mostly to four year olds who would rather be playing with blocks. Brian Fawcett is a Toronto-based writer. Margaret Randall Margaret Randall is a poet, essayist, oral historian and photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Judith Rudakoff A professional dramaturg, Judith Rudakoff teaches at York University, and travels widely, lately with a strange camera. Lyle Neff Lyle Neff is a Canadian poet and literary journalist who lives and works in Vancouver. His most recent book is *Bizarre Winery Tragedy* (Anvil Press, 2005) Norbert Ruebsaat teaches college and university classes in Communication and Media Studies in Vancouver. He writes for magazines and newspapers and has produced radio documentaries for CBC Radio's IDEAS program. He has collaborated with Canadian composers |