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RUTH ROACH PIERSON, professor emerita of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, is the author of two books of poems, both published by BuschekBooks: Where No Window Was and Aide-Mémoire. The latter was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry.

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BRENT MACLAINE’s poetry collections include Wind and Root, These Fields Were Rivers and Shades of Green. He also co-edited of Landmarks: an Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land. His most recent book of poetry is Athena Becomes a Swallow, a series of monologues based on Homer’s The Odyssey.  He has been a League of Canadian Poets poetry contest winner as well as a winner of the Prince Edward Island Milton Acorn Award for poetry.

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Ken Babstock is the author, most recently, of Airstream Land Yacht (Anansi, 2006) winner of The Trillium Prize for Poetry, finalist for the Governor General's Award, The Griffin Prize for Poetry, and The Winterset Award. Earlier collections include Mean, winner of The Atlantic Poetry Prize and The Milton Acorn Award, and Days into Flatspin, winner of a K.M. Hunter Award and finalist for the Winterset Prize. All three books were listed in The Globe and Mail's Books of the Year. His poems have won Gold at the National Magazine Awards, appeared widely in anthologies in Canada, The US, and Ireland, and have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian and Czech.

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Susan Musgrave has received awards in five different genres: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, children's writing, and for her work as an editor. She teaches in UBC's Optional Residency in Creative Writing MFA Programme. Two books of poetry are forthcoming in 2009: Sangan River Meditations (Leaf Press) and When the World is Not Our Home: Selected Poems 1985 – 2000 (Thistledown).

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Margaret Christakos has published a novel and seven collections of poetry, including Not Egypt, Other Words for Grace, The Moment Coming, Wipe Under A Love, Excessive Love Prostheses, Sooner and most recently What Stirs (Coach House, 2008). She has won the ReLit Award for Poetry and been a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Margaret has been Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor, and currently teaches Creative Writing and Poetry at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She developed the lecture-reading series "Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon."

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John Barton has published nine books of poetry and five chapbooks, including West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a Self-Portrait, Great Men, Notes toward a Family Tree Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis (ECW, 1998), and Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001).  He has won a Patricia Hackett Prize, three Archibald Lampman Awards, an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award, and a National Magazine Award. In 2008 – 2009, he was writer in residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. The editor of  The Malahat Review in Victoria, he will be reading from Hymn, published by Brick Books in August 2009.

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John Reibetanz’s poems have appeared Poetry (Chicago), The Paris Review,  Canadian Literature, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Southern Review, and Quarry. The author of seven collections of poetry, Reibetanz has been finalist for both the National Magazine Awards, the National Poetry Competition and for the ReLit Poetry Award, and has won the international Petra Kenney Poetry Competition. His newest work is Transformations (Goose Lane, 2006).

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A.F. Moritz has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, with Rest on the Flight into Egypt (2000) and The Sentinel (Anansi, 2008); his 2004 book Night Street Repairs received the ReLit Award. His poetry has also been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, /Poetry/ magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, and other awards. He has published twelve books of poems and volumes of translation, biography, literary history, and art history.

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Jen Currin lives in Vancouver, where she teaches creative writing at Vancouver Film School and Langara College. She has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities (Anvil) and most recently, Hagiography (Coach House). Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead, Carousel, Lungfull!, VERSE, The Massachusetts Review, Event, The Mississippi Review, Salt Hill and Washington Square. She is a founding member of the experimental poetry collective vertigo west.

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Originally from Montreal, Christine Leclerc now lives in Vancouver. In 2008 she completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, and Worksound. It is also forthcoming in Interim. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published by CUE in fall 2008.

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