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  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O Arlene Ang lives in a small town just outside Venice, Italy. She can seriously drive cars, animals and people into a ditch. Her favorite word is bucket. She blogs arleneang.blogspot.com because, like sex, everyone is doing it. Poems include:
Bear is a poet and artist who was born with twelve fingers. From a secret location in Northern California he owns and operates Pajama Dancing where he sells art, books, and love. He loves blues music, sushi, and the sound of the Japanese language. Poems include:
Christian Beare troubleshoots an array of malfunctioning business communications systems by day, delighting in the hidden graces of technical jargon; by night, a painter: tortured, paranoid, starving and drunk. Cartoons include:
Nigel Beale has interviewed Nobel, Man Booker, IMPAC, Governor General’s, Orange, Giller, John Llewellyn Rhys, Forward, Samuel Johnson, James Tait Black Memorial, Somerset Maugham, Premio Grinzane Cavour, Commonwealth Writers, and Miles Franklin Award and Prize winning authors, and many other great ones who haven’t won a damned thing. Stories include:
Laura L. Benn is an English student at Ottawa’s Carleton University. She thinks dogs are the best kind of people and enjoys trampolines, singing in the rain and believes grey is grossly underrated as a colour. Poems include:
Ryan Bird is often lowered by God onto a stage in order to untangle a plot-twist, or to extricate a particularly loveable protagonist from a particularly sticky situation. Whether he was actually lowered by God, or merely dropped on his head, is entirely up for debate. His poems have appeared in Carousel, dANDelion, filling station, Zeugma & Ripe Magazine. Poems include:
Jared Bloom is a writer from Brooklyn who is fluent in both English and Canadian. He's also really great. Stories include:
Greg Boose grew up in northeast Ohio, got his MFA degree in Moorhead, MN, and now lives in Chicago. Some of his work can be found on www.gregboose.com. Some of his toes can be found on his feet. Stories include:
Arndt Britschgi is a Finn. We know this because he tells us he was born in a town in southern Finland. However, we speculate he may be a Spaniard. We speculate this because he tells us he spent the best (if not the longest) part of his life in Madrid. That said we have recently uncovered documents proving he is in fact a doctor of philosophy living in Zurich. We’re now somewhat confused and believe he may be a Swiss. Stories include:
Carl R. Brush has been writing since he could write, which is quite a long time now. He lives with his wife in Oakland, California, where he enjoys the blessings of nearby children and grandchildren. Carl thanks Sandy and Josh for inspiring The Garden Wars. Stories include:
Peter Buckley is a writer from England, who blogs at peterandthehare.wordpress.com. He has recently completed a post-graduate degree in Film Studies. He delights in music, long conversations, cute animals, adventure, magic and cappuccino. Poems include:
Graham Burchell was born in Canterbury, England. He is the winner of the 2005 Chapter One Promotions Open Poetry Competition and the 2006 Hazel Street Productions Poetry Contest. His poetry has appeared in many print and online literary magazines. He is the editor of the online poetry journal, Words-Myth, and writes full-time from his home in Houston, Texas. Poems include:
Jennifer Byrne loves referring to herself in the third person while showcasing her literary credentials. In this way, she will convey to you that her writing has appeared on McSweeney's and a few other places. So, what's next for Jennifer Byrne? Hopefully, affordable psychotherapy. Stories include:
Alejandro Cardona graduated from Sheridan College in Toronto with a degree in illustration. He currently works at the Lonsdale Gallery as an assistant director and graphic artist. www.alejandrocardona.com Cartoons include:
Phil Caron is a filmmaker and writer living in Ottawa. In 1997-98 he was the "extra George" in a Japanese Beatles cover band in Tokyo; at their peak, they played in a mall near an airport. Stories include:
Jimmy Chen is an ambassador at the Embassy of Misguided Zen, where all his online publications can be found. jimmychenchen.com Stories include:
Dawn Corrigan has been treated kindly by the internet which has provided her a forum for her poems, fiction, nonfiction, short plays, and humor writing. How has she repaid the Internet? By writing this rather catty update of John Berryman's Dream Song # 14. Now the Internet's not taking her calls. Poems include:
Toby Cygman’s work has been performed on stage and presented on CBC Radio. She likes sentence fragments and neologisms. Stories include:
Alex Davey is a student of the Ontario College of Art & Design and an illustrator based in Toronto. Cartoons include:
Allison Davey trained with the Taliban for seven years before turning to writing after she realized the Warlord market was over-saturated. She currently resides in Toronto where she is an expert of Hobo Theory, Cryptozoology, 1960's Sitcoms, and is a Severe Hottie. Did we mention - she doesn't like cats. Stories include:
Jes Degryse grew up wrastling bears to a glorious soundtrack of '80s classic rock. She is now the founder and headmistress of a rural Ontario-based school for junior bear wrastlers. Her other interests include imported beer, moths and butterflies, desserts of all varieties (with the exception of coconut cream pie), and warm weather. Stories include:
Claire Dillon is constantly worried about running into people from her past, unless of course they are less successful than her. “The art of lying about your significant other...” is adapted from emails she sent out to friends about her anxieties concerning a gathering of their high school graduating class. Stories include:
Kaley Dodds is a university student who likes to write creative jibber-jabber while drowning in a sea of textbooks which she navigates in the hopes of perpetuating a facade of scholastic intelligence and dedication. Poems include:
Joshua Edwin lives in New York and works at a hospital. He lived for a year in Seoul, a city that provided him with warm hospitality, countless fascinating cultural encounters, and nearly limitless inspiration for poems set in bathrooms. Poems include:
Tyler Enfield is the winner of the 2008 Writers Foundation of New Brunswick Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 Prism International Non-Fiction Award. His literary work has appeared in a number of journals, magazines and newspapers. Stories include:
Margaret Fieland grew up in New York City where she was surrounded and influenced by art and music. The daughter of a painter, she is now an accomplished flute and piccolo player. Her poems, articles and stories have appeared in several magazines. www.margaretfieland.com Poems include:
Andrew Forbes is a hack who spends his days churning out movie reviews and newsletters to a largely disinterested audience. He lives with his wife, thief baby daughter, a blue dog and a white car. Stories include:
Michael Frissore is a writer. Not a scribe or a wordsmith, mind you. Just an obscure writer who lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife. Stories include:
Rafael Galán lives in Madrid and likes apples and how the word menu sounds in English. Stories include:
Matt Goerzen was raised by wolves in the wilds of Saskatchewan. He inherited much of their majesty but little of their social sophistication and now lives a solitary existence in Montreal. Cartoons include:
John Grey is an Australian-born poet, playwright and musician. His latest book is titled What Else Is There and is published by Main Street Rag. Poems include:
Claire Griffiths was born in Scotland and has studied English in the UK, Canada and Australia. She was one of our first contributors but we’re not quite sure what’s happened to her in recent months. We believe she’s currently living in the UK. Stories include:
Matt Hammill grew up in the 1980s drawing dinosaurs and Mega Man bosses. Since then, he's learned to call his doodles "illustrations." His website is matthammill.com Cartoons include:
Jeremy Hanson-Finger recently left journalism school after realizing its ideals of objectivity and rigorous discipline were at odds with his dream of being a Doctor of Gonzo Journalism. He enjoys being used by concrete imagery and also a good bagel from time to time. Poems include: Stories include:
David Hart works in a museum and lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and a freakish cat. His writing is routinely rejected (and occasionally published) in places like McSweeney's Internet Tendency and MonkeyBicycle. Stories include:
Debbie Okun Hill is best known for her dark metaphoric poems, with over 53 serious creations printed in over 24 Canadian and US anthologies and magazines. This is her first and maybe last attempt at humor. Poems include:
Naomi Hyba lives in Ottawa and is currently attending Canterbury High School. She loves thunderstorms, singing in the shower, and soybeans. Stories include:
Daniel S. Irwin is an artist/writer (both a matter of opinion) working as a medic in a maximum security prison with the criminally insane (aka ... the supervisors). Poems include:
Kathryn Jankowski is an illustrator, painter and sculptor currently living in Toronto. She has studied visual arts at York University where she focused on oil painting and bronze sculpture and has also studied advanced illustration at Sheridan College. Cartoons include:
Adrian Johnson was born in Sierra Leone to British and Croatian parents, and was raised in a variety of unstable and war-torn states, including Israel, Indonesia, and North London. Stories include:
Matt Judd is a purveyor of fine whines and assorted laments. A sometime sketch comedian, he has turned a lifetime of making people laugh/uncomfortable into nearly forty dollars over the years. He is a husband and a father (though to different people) in St. Louis, Missouri. Stories include:
Jeremy Kaposy says: "To the editors of my 1999 high school yearbook: I, Jeremy Kaposy, would like to make some corrections. My name is not 'Lindy Kasoian', I do not aspire to be a veterinarian, and my pet peeve is actually lousy yearbook editing." To find more illustrations by Jer.K, please visit www.jerkaposy.com. Cartoons include: Stories include:
Paul Kavanagh lives in Charlotte. His book Everybody is Interested in Pigeons is to be published by 40ft. Stories include:
Nathan Kim is a journalism student and graffiti artist from Toronto. Cartoons include:
Denise Kincy is a mother, a grandmother, a poet, a writer, and a Texan. She may not have bullhorns on the grill of her Caddie, but she does edit her own online flash fiction journal. denisekincy.wordpress.com Poems include:
Magda Knight is the co-creatrix of mookychick.co.uk. Her claim to fame is that she was once published in the British comic 2000AD. She loves you all. Poems include:
Ellen Kombiyil is originally from Syracuse, New York but now writes from India where she lives with her husband and two children. Poems include:
Louise Lake is the assumed name of a Gemini writer who likes to separate business and pleasure. She lives in Victoria, B.C. and her work has been published in several literary magazines, as well as CBC Radio and chapbooks published by the Columbia Writers Studio, in Rossland, B.C. Stories include:
Jenn Lawrence is a graphic design graduate of OCAD, the Ontario College of Art & Design, or "F ART & DESIGN" as some may know it. You can check her out on the Interweb at jennlawrence.ca Cartoons include:
Tim Lehnert grew up in Montreal and now lives in Rhode Island where he is a freelance writer and stay-at-home father. He writes fiction and journalism on a variety of topics and is reckless in his fecklessness. Stories include:
Scott Leslie is a dreamer, nostalgist and all-round boy genius. Scott’s been published in a wide range of print and on-line publications. But he's not going to tell you which ones. Stories include:
Marilyn Letts wishes she was a superhero saving the world one poem at a time. Occasionally she travels at super-sonnet speed, but presently her batmobile's parked in Calgary. Poems include:
Katherine Leyton owes the Canadian government $10,000. She likes to forget this as often as possible and write poetry. Other favourite activities include sleeping and feminism. She will be living in Rome until she can afford a plane ticket back to her hometown of Toronto, by which time she hopes the Canadian government will have forgotten her. Poems include:
Irene Linderman lives in Ottawa with her husband, young son, and two very large cats. She has a B.Com from the University of Ottawa and is working on a collection of short stories. She can be reached at: ilinderman@hotmail.com Stories include:
Paola Loriggio has fallen asleep in inappropriate places all over the world, including the office couch at the New York Times. Then she got deported. She now lives in a purple apartment in Toronto and unapologetically indulges her addiction to Diet Pepsi. Stories include:
Andrew MacDonald lives in London, Ontario with two cats and a lesbian. His writing has won awards at the University of Western Ontario and has appeared in various print and online publications. Stories include:
Iain Marlow is a gun barrel diplomat and a budding hand-model from Toronto. He’s a student of journalism and has excelled as an editorial writer for the state-owned China Daily in Beijing. He doesn’t mind censorship so long as it’s done using the Chicago Manual of Style. Check out his blog at: gbdiplomat.blogspot.com Stories include:
Gavin McCarthy enjoys comics, video games, movies and improv. He is a recent graduate from Toronto's Sheridan College and currently works in Toronto. He really, really likes coffee - a habit he picked up in Italy, along with an obsession for Pesto and salt cured pork. You can visit him online at: artbygavin.com Cartoons:
Leopold McGinnis is an Edmonton independent writer and the founding editor of the e-zine Redfez.net. He is the author of a short novella, The Red Fez, and recently of Game Quest, a full length comedic novel about a family of computer game designers under hostile takeover. Poems include:
Corey Mesler has published poetry and prose in many journals and has written several chapbooks and a novel. His latest novel Talk was published by Livingston Press in 2002. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee where he and his wife own and operate Burke's Book. Coreymesler.com Poems include:
Corina Milic has been relocated. Poems include: Stories include:
David Millen is an energetically aging angelic basket case from Ottawa. Poems include:
Graeme Millen was born of a flower child and giraffe with an English accent and raised in a home with loose morals and looser bowels. Masquerading most of his life as an orange skillfully poised on the tip of a toothpick, he has since cast away the shadows of his disheveled upbringing to revel in the joys of literary incoherence.
Kamila Mlynarczyk is an illustrator based out of the Toronto area. To see more of her work go to woodedwoods.com, bring some breadcrumbs. Cartoons include:
Suchoon Mo is a poet and a composer. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines while his orchestral music compositions have been featured in Sage of Consciousness, Mad Hatters Review, Unlikely 2.0, Strange Road and The Adroitly Placed Word. He has no formal music education. Poems include:
Bob Monin grew up in a small town outside of a small town near a big city (actually just another small town), in Ontario. He has been doodling since the age of 3 - but has kept out of the spotlight due to his extreme fear of wealth, fame and Toronto. He chooses to spend his days sitting on the dock of the bay, wastin' time. Credits include:
Jim Murdoch is a Scottish writer and poet living on the outskirts of Glasgow. Poems include:
Kristine Ong Muslim, 26, lives in the Philippines and has sold more than 350 stories and poems in professional and small press genre, mainstream, and literary publications. To track down more of her writing, visit: www.freewebs.com/blackroom8 Poems include:
Shane Neilson is a writer from New Brunswick. His alter ego is Burt. Poems include: Poems include:
Colin O'Sullivan is an Irish writer living and working as a teacher in Japan. His poetry has been published in his homeland and abroad in various magazines, he has written several radio pieces for RTE radio (Ireland), and his short stories have been published in Europe, Asia, and the USA. He lives in Aomori City (Japan), with his wife and son. osullivancolin@hotmail.com Stories include:
Dan Pasternak is a young man with shapely legs. Seriously. That is why he can't live in Medicine Hat anymore. Stories include:
Cortney Philip recently received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but her cats still don't give her any respect. She enjoys the fresh smell of paper in the morning, and always wins at cribbage. Stories include:
Gary Pierluigi was a creative writing teacher and an ex-freelance journalist. In 1996 Gary became a quadriplegic. He currently has a novel being considered for publication. Poems include:
Brett Popplewell doesn’t belong here. Neither do his Monkey Banters. Stories include: Poems include:
Vicki Popplewell is on her way to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters. Stories include:
Oleg Portnoy is a Toronto-based illustrator and a recent graduate of the illustration program at Sheridan College. Most of his work focuses on social and political commentary with a twisted sense of humor. Cartoons include:
Joel Relliquette is a graphic designer and illustrator from Toronto. Relliquette recently spent three weeks in Southeast Asia studying the movements of gorillas in the mist before illustrating the Feathertale monkeys. If you would like to contact Joel, please send us an email - If we don't think you're crazy, we'll give you his number. Credits include:
Joe Reese is an English teacher/novelist/storyteller, who lives in Athens, Ohio. He has been fired by most of the educational institutions in the United States. You can learn more about some of his creations at www.katiedee.com. Stories include:
Gary Robinson is a prodigiously unemployed melancholic person who spends much time in libraries where he is sometimes mistaken for an extra-terrestrial spy. Poems include:
Greg Santos was born in Montreal. His writings have been featured in print and online publications – many of which happen to start with the letter M, such as, Matrix Magazine and McSweeney’s. Well, actually only those two. He studies at Columbia University and currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut. He has a blog: moondoggy.blogspot.com and a website: gregsantos/mosaicglobe.com. Stories include: Poems include:
Steve Sauvé performs at many of Ottawa's spoken word poetry slams and readings. He’s featured on the CDs Thursday Night Heroes: Live at Café Nostalgica*, Live at Capital Slam 2005, and his own full-length CD: Steve Sauvé Does It With His Glasses On. Steve is tall and gangly, but collapses easily for convenient storage under the bed. He likes wooing bespectacled women, and writing about himself in the third person. Poems include:
Ernie Scott likes to put forks in light sockets while writing whimsical nonsense. He lives and works in Chicago. Stories include: Poems include:
Carolyn Son can play two instruments, the piano and the saxophone. The child of Korean immigrants, she spent half her childhood in her parents’ variety store, but she spent her time wisely by reading all of the magazines and books they had. A gifted physical comedian, she keeps in practice by bumping into things. Stories include:
Michael Spring graduated years ago from Queens University in Belfast. Now he lives in London where he works as a copywriter and marketing person. When he isn't writing about really interesting stuff like guttering or work-surfaces, he turns his attention to the idea of self as not-self. Poems include:
Richard Stevenson is the author of seventeen full-length collections of poetry, plus a CD of original jazz and poetry, a forthcoming memoir and a recently-released children's picture book. Richard teaches Canadian Literature, Creative Writing, Composition, and Business Communication at Lethbridge Community College in southern Alberta. Poems include:
Colin Stewart is a computer scientist, or so says his degree. He is now pursuing a much more practical degree in creative writing, after which he will enter the lucrative field of writing novels. Until then, Colin will spend his time writing, doing slam poetry, looking for a publisher for his novel, and playing on the slides in the park. Poems include:
Josh Stewart is an adamant wearer of hats, singer of songs, walker on sidewalks and eater of sushi. He is currently finishing an English and philosophy degree at the University of Toronto. After that he plans to undertake more impractical, useless pursuits. Poems include:
Anthony Swaneveld is a full-time graphic designer and part-time illustrator based in Toronto. He is half Dutch, but hopes you will try not to hold it against him. anth.ca Cartoons include:
Thomas Sullivan is the author of You Can’t Paint Chainlink: True Tales From A Beautifully Flawed World. His writing has also appeared in a variety of online publications. Stories include:
Richard Taylor is the author of House Inside the Waves: Domesticity, Art and the Surfing Life, and teaches in the English Department of Carleton University. www.taylorswave.ca Poems include:
Rob Taylor lives in Port Moody, British Columbia, has a chapbook, a blog – rollofnickels.blogspot.com, and a bland haircut. Poems include: Stories include:
Jamie Tucker is a crusty crotchety curmudgeon of a cantankerous irascible brusque illustrator. He enjoys making people do a spit-take, and measures his success by its recorded distance. www.jamietucker.com. Cartoons Include:
Townsend Twainhart is sometimes published as Chris. J. Wright and JOT Klinker. He’s written hundreds of articles for commercial magazines since 1985. The part of him which is occasionally referred to as JOT is also an award winning artist and book illustrator. Poems Include:
J.A. Tyler’s work has been published in various journals and publications including The Feathertale Review. He is also the founding editor of Mud Luscious, an online literary review. Stories include:
Joanne Underwood is a member of the Calgary-based /wordweavers/ writing collective. She enjoys entering poetry contests for the challenge of working within the limitations presented. Poems include:
Jeff Van den engh is a Montreal born writer living in Calgary. He’s been writing poetry for many years but only recently emerged from his writing shell. Poems Include:
Emily Vanderploeg lives in Wales, but speaks Canadian, not Welsh, and is rarely understood by the natives. She will soon be appearing in a beach scene in an upcoming Woody Allen film, starring Scarlett Johansson, and filmed in Barcelona. She likes writing and thinking about the weather conditions in her homeland. Poems Include:
Alexei Vella has spent many years honing his unique creative skills. He now presents smart, fun and colourful illustrative solutions to any challenge. You can visit him online at www.alexeivella.com. Cartoons Include:
Kevin Ward is a media technician and artist-type who has moved from the Ottawa Valley, to Montreal, to London, England, but spends most of his time living inside his own mind. Cartoons Include:
Matthew Ward lives & writes in his native Newcastle, Australia, a former steel city, now burgeoning metropolis where everyone looks happy, especially when they're squinting into the Sun. His work has been published in book form in both Australia and America and his short stories have appeared in several magazines, printed as well as online. He dreams of writing the great Australian novel; failing that, the great American one. Stories include:
Reese Warner’s stories and poems have appeared in various Canadian and American journals. For more information on Reese and for a complete list of her publications, visit her site: www.reesewarner.com Stories include:
David Weigham is a freelance cartoonist living in Victoria, B.C. His cartoons have appeared in several Canadian and international publications, including Oldie Magazine. Cartoons include:
Grace E. Welch lives in Bermuda where she's a project manager by day and a poet by night (and the occasional lunch hour). Her poems have been published in on-line journals and the 2006 Bermuda Anthology of Poetry. Unlike her son who won a chicken chasing race at the Dixieland Stampede, she's never been awarded a medal. However, she did get a nice ribbon for "best in show" in the David Raine Memorial Poetry Competition. Poems include:
Allison Whalen was born and raised in Ottawa, where, at age 6, she began writing songs like "The Golden Tree by the Station Wagon" and "I, Ernie-Bert". She now spends her days in a high-rise cube, saving up for grad school and pretending to work. She enjoys rock 'n' roll music, sarcastic magnets, and chocolate-banana popcicles. Poems include: Cartoons include:
Christine Whyte has spent 44 years cultivating a small haggis croft in Lewis. Her abuse of whiskey-related products eventually led to her burning the croft down. Now she lives in London, stalking the foggy streets seeking a haggis of her own. Stories include:
Lee H. Wilson is currently living in our about section. Cartoons include:
Ralph H. Wilson is a writer who lives and works in Flamborough, wherever that is. Poems include:
Chris Woods has published a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. He lives and writes in Texas. Poems include:
Changming Yuan grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several books before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan works in Vancouver and has had over 100 poems published in journals and magazines from around the world. Email: yuans@shaw.ca Poems include:
Lisa Zaran is a poet and author living in Arizona. Her latest collection is entitled, The Blondes Lay Content, and can be purchased off her website: www.lisazaran.com. Poems include:
Boris Zaytsev is the answer to all life’s little mysteries. He’s also an illustrator and graphic designer with a website to prove it! www.boriszaytsev.com. Cartoons include: |
