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ANNE COMPTON is a poet, editor and critic. Her collection Processional won the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and, in 2003, her book Opening the Island won the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She has also received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts and a National Magazine Award. Her most recent book is Asking questions indoors and out.

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JAMES LANGER is a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead. His first collection, Gun Dogs, was published in 2009, and his work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including TickleAce, lichen, Arc, Grain, Event, The Fiddlehead, The Newfoundland Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, and Riddle Fence. Born in Ontario, he grew up on the coast of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and now lives in Fredericton.

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Jason Guriel is the recipient of the 2009 Editors Prize for Reviewing and the 2007 Frederick Bock Prize, both from Poetry magazine. He is the author of two collections of poems: Technicolored, and Pure Product, which was published by Véhicule Press in 2009. His work is forthcoming in Poetry and Parnassus.

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Soraya Peerbaye is a poet and translator living in Toronto. Her work has been anthologised in Red Silk: An Anthology of Canadian South Asian Women Poets and published in The New Quarterly, Other Voices and Prairie Fire. Her collection of poetry Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names was published in 2009 by Goose Lane.

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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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