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  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N 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:
Nick Aveling is a hack from Toronto. He is too short to succeed in any meaningful way, and slightly too tall to reap the benefits of a Napoleon Complex. Stories include:
Dora Badger is a stand up comedian living in Detroit. A graduate of the Second City's Improv Conservatory program, she has written several short skits for the stage. Poems 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:
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:
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and has worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His poetry has been published in dozens of literary journals while his original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City where he's busy writing fiction. Poems include:
Ana Benaroya is an illustrator, typographer, and designer. When not drawing, screen-printing, or Photoshop-ing, Ana can be found consuming large amounts of hot sauce, usually accompanied by a turkey sandwich of sorts. She was born in New Jersey and earned her BFA in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Check out more of her artwork at: www.anabenaroya.com Cartoons 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:
Matt Betts is a former reporter and news anchor. His work has appeared in a number of publications. He runs a writing critique in Columbus, Ohio. Stories include: 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:
Venita Blackburn is a graduate of Arizona State University's MFA program in creative writing and is working on a novel titled Insignificant Happiness, which may soon be changed to Absence, California Stories include:
Nicolas Blessett is originally from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and due to being born of the red-haired persuasion, spends most of his time playing hide and seek with the sun. Except that he never seeks. All he does is hide. Stories 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: Poems include:
Scott Bowman is completing an MFA at Rutgers-Newark, where he teaches an English composition courses. His work has appeared in Slice Magazine and Quarter After Eight. Stories include:
Dan Bradley watches too much baseball for a writer, yet investigates far too many brewpubs to be a ball player, plays too much guitar to brew suds with science, yet writes too much to be in a band. Still he blames it all on the cats. He's quite sure, however, that the buzz surrounding his Internet-publishing success is rather huge in Guam. Poems 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:
Tanya Bryan is a writer/poet based in Toronto who would rather be based in space. She likes traveling, checking her mailbox, and talking about squishy cheese. Poems 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:
Mark Cabuena has a fancy piece of paper from the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning that says his name in fancy lettering and BAA in illustration. He currently lives in Toronto and works out of the friendly studio community of Project 165 in Kensington Market. Cartoons 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 Carron 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: Cartoons include:
Jim Carson is an Architect living in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and Snickers the wonder dog. His works have appeared at Hungry River; Ink, Sweat and Tears ( UK ); Flutter; The Clapboard House and other journals. Some claim he can be funny. Poems include:
Steve Cartwright is an Atlanta-based cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and is kind to dogs. His work has appeared in several magazines, newspapers, two books, and various websites. Cartoons include:
Jimmy Chen is an ambassador at the Embassy of Misguided Zen, where all his online publications can be found. jimmychenchen.com Stories include:
Justin Chen started drawing when he was a little boy; his first work was a red car in crayon. Now he draws much more than that. With a background in architecture, he often sees his drawings as floor plans for some fantastical buildings. You can view his works at http://jkhc.blogspot.com Cartoons 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:
Kyle Davis is from Austin, Texas, and is a quintuple threat, though none of those threats involve singing, dancing, acting or working in any way. He is self-taught in the areas of writing, breathing and walking. 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:
Don Elliot's name deserves to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But it's not. Stories 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:
Philip Estes grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Chicken Boa: Notes on Skrilla, Feathertale, FRiGG, Front Porch, The Great American Poetry Show, Kaleidotrope, Kill Poet, Lamination Colony, NOÖ Journal, Origami Condom, Poetry Midwest, The Portland Review and Thieves Jargon. Poems include:
Jamie Eyberg is a full-time father and a part-time writer. Mostly he writes weird stories that are labelled “horror,” but there are exceptions. Stories include:
Ivan Faute lives in Chicago with two rat terriers. Apart from prose, he also writes drama and has had plays produced in New York, Chicago and San Diego. Stories include:
Margaret Fieland has been around art and music all her life. The New Yorker’s poems, articles and children's stories have appeared in, among others, Main Channel Voices, Echolocation, and Twisted Tongue. Check her out online atwww.margaretfieland.com Poems include:
Laura Fitch is an apathetic Canadian living in uber-nationalist Beijing working as the arts and photo editor of Asia Weekly. She sometimes feels unbalanced by this and evens it out with bottles of wine and the occasional shot of baijiu. Her writing style is heavily influenced by this process. Stories 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:
Bonnie Furlong has had short pieces published in The Washington Post, The Northern Virginia Daily, The Winchester Star, and GreenPrints: The Weeder's Digest. Stories include:
Rafael Galán lives in Madrid and likes apples and how the word menu sounds in English. Stories include:
Mitchell Gauvin is a full-time student at the University of Toronto studying English and philosophy. He writes for The Varsity student newspaper during the school year. Stories include:
Jeannie Galeazzi has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in twenty-seven publications. 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:
Howie Good is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He's also the author of five poetry chapbooks from Scintillating Publications and the e-book, Police & Questions, from Right Hand Pointing. Poems include:
KJ Hannah Greenberg writes eclectically and publishes in divergent places. When not writing, Hannah tends to her imaginary hedgehogs. She takes away their marshmallow fluff if they fail to clean their hibernaculum. Stories include:
Carol Lynn Grellas is a two-time Pushcart nominee and the author of two chapbooks: Litany of Finger Prayers and Object of Desire. She lives with her husband, five children and a blind dog named Ginger. Poems 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:
Rosanne Griffeth's work has been published in a number of journals, both online and in print. She lives on the verge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and spends her time writing and documenting Appalachian culture. She is the blogger behind smokeymountainbreakdown. Stories include:
The Brothers Grinn are composed of three repressed wits from the wilds of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Tim and Tom Rose are the team who come up with the captions and Clayton Thomas is the skillful ink man. More examples of their work can be found here. Cartoons include:
Patrick L. Halliwell is a Canadian musicologist, composer and author. His publications include fiction, humour, and scholarly articles on traditional Japanese koto music. He is severely allergic to people who take everything too seriously. His official website is www.lakipi.com. Stories include: Poems 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:
Jim Harrington is a retired librarian embarking on a new journey. His stories have appeared in a number of publications and can be found online at: www.jimharringtononline.net. Stories include:
Windy Lyn Harris is an award-winning humour writer. She lives in sunny Arizona, where she recently earned a grant to further the development of her first novel. Visit her at: www.windylynnharris.com. 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:
Ben Harvey is a Toronto based comic artist and writer with an obsession with immortal men and destroyed worlds. Currently enrolled at the University of Toronto, he is studying the history of extinct and decayed civilizations in the hope of giving his post-apocalyptic comics an edge. Cartoons 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:
Elizabeth F. Hill has been a teacher, professor, researcher, librarian and stay-at-home mother. She enjoys her family, music, sports, travel, literature and watching snowflakes blow out to sea. Poems include:
Steve Himmer's stories have appeared in the anthologies What Happened To Us These Last Couple Years?, Brevity & Echo, and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Stories include:
Bryon D. Howell has been writing poetry for a great number of years. He currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Poems include:
Scott Hrabko was born in a simpler time in a navy base hospital somewhere in Maryland. He grew up in St. Louis but, with the exception of six very interesting years in Chicago in the 1990s, he calls Kansas City Home. When not drawing or painting, Scott writes songs and plays guitar with Kansas City's oldest garage band, The Original Sinners. Cartoons include:
Naomi Hyba lives in Ottawa and is currently attending Canterbury High School. She loves thunderstorms, singing in the shower, and soybeans. Stories include: Poems 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:
A D Jameson is a Chicago-based writer, video artist, teacher and performer, which is too many things, really. His fiction has appeared all over the place online and in print. Stories 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:
Cathal Kelly is a functioning alcoholic and dietary nutritionist. He spends his summers minding his cabbage plantation on the Croatian coast and his winters milking goats in the new Mexican hills, not to be confused with the hills of New Mexico. Egregious interviews include:
Laura Kenins lives in a black house in Halifax, NS where she makes comics and illustrations, writes about the arts and attempts to keep her rent paid. Her comics and drawings have been published in Broken Pencil, Shameless magazine and others. Cartoons 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:
Jesse Kuhn was born and raised in Missouri. He currently resides in the wonderful city of New York, and works as a freelance designer and illustrator at his one man studio, RAWTOASTDESIGN.
Aaron Kreuter is a writer of poetry and fiction currently doing graduate work at the University of Victoria. He has had prose published in FreeFall, Inscribed and The Gloaming, and poetry in Existere, The Toronto Quarterly, Headlights and Soliloquies. He’s also the author of the chapbook Waiting by the Sea and Other Poems. Poems include: Cartoons include:
Chay Lemoine is a writer and teacher born and raised in St. Rose, Louisiana, currently living in Edwardsville, Illinois. 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:
MK Laughlin teaches English at Western New England College. Her work has appeared in Funeral Pants: A Collection of Short Stories, Lovechild Literary Journal, Red Weather, Poor Mojo’s Almanac, and NANO fiction. 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:
Norma West Linder was born in Toronto. She spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island and was educated in Gravenhurst and Toronto. She took creative writing courses at York University and in Ireland through Washington State University. She has lived in Sudbury, Espanola and Muskoka Falls, and had varied work experience from age fourteen. In 1953, she moved from Toronto to Sarnia. For the past twenty-four years, she was an ESL teacher at Lambton College. She is a widow and has three children. She enjoys swimming, film, theatre and globe-trotting. 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:
Jennifer Manley is a writer based in London, Ontario. She does not watch as much TV as you might think. Really. 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:
Daniel McArdle is a freelance graphic designer living in Hong Kong with his wife and two young daughters. He presently finds solace in collecting short story rejections, and on soccer pitches, exhibiting a knack for goal and surprising touch for a big man. Stories include:
Kelsey McCarson writes stuff sometimes. Pretty complicated stuff, actually. Poems 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 include:
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:
Camille Mikhael is a computer programming student born and raised in Ottawa who enjoys playing checkers and eating Cheezies in the snow. Stories 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. Stories include:
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:
Laura Moses is a Toronto-based mastered communicator. She wears a purple hat to bed. Poems 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:
Patrick O'Leary has been writing for years, but has only recently started submitting his work to online and print publications. Some might know him as the winner of a Haiku contest at Poetry.com, others might not. He lives in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Stories include:
Christy Olsen is a former middle-school student and one-time potential film star. She works at a desk for her boss. She spends her work hours contemplating the best use for her leisure time, which, she has concluded, is an imponderable. She loves the music of The Beatles, and Minnesota in late September is also delightful. 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:
Carl Palmer has neither watch nor cell phone, and is happily surprised when he forgets what day it is. "Every day is Saturday, except Sunday, only because the newspaper is heavier." Poems include: Poems include:
Dan Pasternak is a young man with shapely legs. Seriously. That is why he can't live in Medicine Hat anymore. Stories include:
Kelsey Pettit earned a BAA in illustration from Sheridan Institute and now works as a graphic designer for Sprout where she makes bamboo baby clothes. When the weather's nice she likes to go outside and collect freckles. When it's not so nice, she likes to sip tea and read. Cartoons 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:
Zen Rankin is a freelance illustrator who created the underground comic Action Satisfaction Supreme, and has done work on various educational publications, comic and animation projects, including The Feathertale Review Cartoons include:
Christie Raymond was once told that she looks a lot like Bonnie Parker. She hopes she does not meet the same fate. Stories 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:
Mike Richardson-Bryan used to be a lawyer, but he's all better now. His work has appeared in various online and printed publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. He lives in Ottawa. Stories include:
Benjamin Rivers is a web consultant, illustrator and game maker working in Toronto. He designs and develops websites, trains others to do so, and teaches web classes as part of the illustration faculty at the Ontario College of Art& Design./p> Cartoons 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:
Rolli writes. For adults and children. Over a thousand things so far. Poems include:
Kimberly Ruth is a recent graduate of SUNY New Paltz, where she received a BFA in photography and a BA in journalism. She has been published in a number of online journals including Ditch Poetry, Silenced Press and elimae. Poems include:
Katelyn Sack is a writer, painter, composer, piano teacher, nanny, candle-stick maker, and President's Fellow in Politics at the University of Virginia. She blogs art and the creative life at katelynsack.com/visiopoetics. Poems include:
Fortunato Salazar is a teenager, writer and couch surfer living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in a number of journals including McSweneeney's and Monkeybicycle. Stories 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:
Calvin Schnurr lives in Toronto. He likes baseball more than soccer, only trusts infielders, and slides headfirst. Poems include:
Andy Schwaderer is a celebrated masochist who delights in the eternal plight of authors: moving mountains of jumbled words into patterns deemed publishable. In his spare time, he is employed by the US Air Force as a pilot. He enjoys writing short stories and humorous pieces, and currently lives in Sacramento, California. Stories include: Poems include:
G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered. 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:
Nick Semko splits his time between Toronto and a small town in Bruce County. He writes short stories and comics. A comic book version of “The Day the Internet Exploded” is being adapted for gangLion comics, coming in winter 2010. Stories include:
Bardia Sinaee is a journalism student from Ottawa who writes half a dozen letters to William H. Macy in quick succession before every meal. Bill has yet to respond. Poems include: Stories include:
Noel Sloboda currently lives in Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in a variety of places, including here! Poems include:
Henry Smith is a professor with no students to profess to. He lives in an attic, drives a pink Vespa and secretly longs for tenure. Stories include:
Joanna Smith is a mumbling political journalist married to an absent-minded artist. She finds it hard to be witty under pressure. Stories include:
Phil Smith is a British expatriate currently based in Toronto. He likes to write reviews of things that don’t exist. Stories 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:
Edith Speers was born in the Kootenays, grew up in Vancouver, and attended Simon Fraser University. Since 1974 she has lived in Australia. Her poetry has been widely published in Australian and international literary journals. Of her books of poetry, the only one currently available is Four Quarters (Esperance Press). Poems 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: Stories 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:
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: 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:
Lynn Tait is a poet, editor and photographer residing in Sarnia, Ontario. Her poems and photos have miraculously appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Windsor Review, Quills, Towards the Light and Inscribed. When she is not crawling through the neighbours’ yards taking photos she is sitting, drinking wine in the same yards. Poems 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:
Step Taylor is currently enrolled in the University of British Columbia’s optional residency creative writing MFA program. He enjoys professional wrestling, playgrounds and chicken curry. Poems include:
Leland Thoburn is, by day, a mild-mannered businessman; by night, an author. He has several publication credits and some literary awards to his name. Most of what he writes is humorous. We like that. Stories include:
Adam Thomlison is an Ottawa-based writer and journalist writer currently living in Tunisia, hiding from my hometown's vicious winter. His work has appeared in places as disparate as the Ottawa Citizen, and the bathroom stall at the bus terminal in Kingston. His work for the now defunct Frank Magazine got him banned from Parliament Hill. 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 debut novella is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in 2009 and his prose poetry chapbook is available now from Trainwreck Press. He is also founding editor of the literary review Mud Luscious and a recent addition to the online editorial team at Pindeldyboz. Read more at www.aboutjatyler.com. Stories include: Poems 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: Stories 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:
Rhian Waller is an avid reader, writer and pedant. In her spare time she sometimes accidentally hits herself in the face with her poi, which she is not very good at using. Poems include:
Ann Ward is co-creator of the Montreal small-press WithWords. She studied English and Creative Writing at Concordia University and splits her time between Montreal and a small town in Ontario. Poems 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:
Trevor Waurechen is an illustrator based in Kingston, Ontario. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design. His work has been published in magazines and newspapers throughout Canada and the United States. When he’s not creating art, it’s probably because one of his cats is in the way. You can see his latest work at www.waurechen.com. Cartoons 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:
Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. She is the author of two books for middle readers and a book of poetry, A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary. 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:
Colin White has been interested in comix since introduced to Hergé's Tintin at the tender age of three. According to his parents, he sometimes paraded around the house sporting an onion bag on his head in attempt to emulate Tintin's trademark tuft. You can find more of his work on his website, Colin White Comix. 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:
Michael Williams is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer living part-time in the Bahamas. 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:
Anna Della Zazzera is a freelance writer and artist from Ottawa. She has a degree in communication, a diploma in journalism and a propensity for buying impractical shoes. Her interests include cheesy crime-scene dramas, bad puns and aviator sunglasses. She currently lives in Kamloops, B.C., with her husband and dog. Stories include: |
