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Brea Burton has recently completed an M.A. specialising in contemporary Canadian literature at the University of Calgary. One of her academic essays was recently published in The Prairies Lost and Found , St John's College Press. She has participated in numerous readings and has produced a few chapbooks through her imprint one trick pony press. Her poetry has most recently been published in NoD, filling Station, and Matrix magazine. Excerpts from her collaborative work with Jill Harman (The Booty, forthcoming from Mercury Press, fall 2007) have been performed at the "Poetry and Sexuality" conference in Stirling, Scotland, Toronto's Lexiconjury, and filling Station magazine's Calgary "Blow-Out."

 

Jill Hartman’s first book of poetry, A Painted Elephant (Coach House 2003) was shortlisted for the Stephan J. Stephansson Award and Gerald Lampert Award. She has been Fiction Editor at filling Station, Editor at dANDelion, and has her own imprint “semi-precious press”. She has performed extensively throughout Canada, most recently at Edmonton’s Olive Reading Series, Toronto’s Lexiconjury and The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival. Recently she had work appear in two important Canadian poetry anthologies (Shift and Switch, Mercury, and Post Prairie, Talonbooks), and her collaborative poetic text The Booty (with Brea Burton) is forthcoming from Mercury Press, fall 2007.

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