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Sandra Alland is a writer, multimedia artist, performer and activist. She currently collaborates with Zorras and b)other collective. www.blissfultimes.ca

Zorras are Scottish-Canadian poet, Sandra Alland, and Venezuelan musician, Y Josephine. Together they make poetry-music-weirdness fusion. With megaphones. www.blissfultimes.ca/zorras.htm

kelleY bolen is a performative media artist whose video work happens primarily live, in collaboration with dancers, theatre artists, musicians, and spoken word artists. kelleY has worked with many Edmonton-based artists including End of Time and a recent collaboration at the Edmonton International Jazz Festival.

Melissa Bull works in Montreal as a writer, editor and translator. Her chapbook, Eating Out, was published by WithWords last year. She runs a blog: bullpenned.blogspot.com. You should contribute. 

Fiona Callow lives in London, Ontario. She’s writing her first novel; until that’s completed, you can read more of her work at http://fictionfiona.tumblr.com.

Angela Carr is the author of Ropewalk (2006), The Rose Concordance (2009), and “Risk Accretions,” a chapbook in Mark Goldstein’s Handwerk set.  She is also the artist of several interviews which have graced Matrix’s pages, and co-founder of the newly born Tente press.  She lives and translates in Montreal.

Poet Emily Carr and critic Erin Wunker are co-founders of the Rednotebook Collective. Emily has two books of poetry forthcoming in 2010: directions for flying and 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2. Erin specializes in Canadian literature, performance, and collaboration and is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University.

In addition to being a writer/performer, T.L. Cowan is also a curator of many performance events and she is currently the Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary. T.L.’s most recent art work reflects an exploration of alter-ego-based performance, and a commitment to collaborative creations. She has also recently taken to the screen in the short satirical activist films (with KingCrip Productions), G.I.M.P. Bootcamp and Bill 44: Smaller Classes, Smaller Minds.

Véronique Dorais Ram is a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on deformed bodies in contemporary Canadian fiction.

Kim Goldberg’s latest book is RED ZONE, a photo-poetic diary of homelessness in Nanaimo, BC, where she lives. Her poems have appeared in Geist, The Capilano Review, Rampike, ditch, West Coast Line and elsewhere. Visit: www.pigsquashpress.com.

Helen Hajnoczky recently completed her BA Honours in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary, where her research focused on feminist avant-garde poetics. Her work has appeared in Nod, fillingStation, and Rampike magazines, as well as in a variety of chapbooks. She is the current poetry editor of fillingStation magazine, and a weekly contributor to the Lemon Hound blog. Her first book, Poets and Killers, is forthcoming from Snare Books.

Amira Hanafi collects and assembles linguistic material. Attendant objects have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Diagram and Sleepingfish, and in books including Trinities and Minced English. www.amirahanafi.com

Karlene Harvey is a First Nations artist, writer and illustrator who lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the former arts director of Redwire magazine and is an advocate for zines, independent publishing and youth education in the arts.

Bronwyn Haslam holds a BA/BSc from the University of Calgary. Her poetry has appeared in dandelion, The Capilano Review and The Last Supper. She is co-founder of the newly born tente press, and works as a medical writer in Montréal.

Angela Hibbs is the author of Passport (DC Books 2006) and Wanton (Insomniac Press 2009). Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Antigonish Review, Exile, Fireweed, Matrix, and CV2. She was born in Newfoundland and now divides her time between Montreal and Toronto.

Liz Howard, a native varietal of northern Ontario, has taken root in Toronto where she engages in cognition research and poetics.  She received an Honours Bsc in psychology from the University of Toronto and currently thrives as a continuing student of Margaret Christakos in Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon. Her work has appeared in Misunderstandings Magazine and in the chapbook Poets in the Wild: An Urban Survival Guide (Cactus press). In 2009 she was shortlisted for the Matrix LitPop Award for poetry.

Kate Hutchinson was born in Connecticut in 1977. She lives in Montreal and is currently pursuing an MFA at Concordia University. In 2008 she had her first solo show “Why am I Marrying him?” at the Visual Voice Gallery in Montreal. In April 2010 her work will part of the “Select Gender” show at Farmani Gallery in New York City.

Penn Kemp has published 25 books of poetry and drama, ten CDs, six videopoems and a DVD: www.myspace.com/pennkemp, http://www.mytown.ca/pennkemp/. Penn presents her Sound Operas on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. She is University of Western Ontario’s writer-in-residence this year.

Julie McIsaac is a Montreal writer who is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. She is currently studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University and is working on a collection of short stories about people who work in toy stores.

D. Cole Ossandon is a writer (as well as a musician, actor, and artist) based in Toronto and Guelph, ON. She currently contributes to various publications and writes Shameless Women, an online column for Shameless Magazine.

Zoë Page is a Montreal activist and poet who organizes at the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and the Union For Gender Empowerment. She is also the co-producer of the Montreal feminist performance The Radical Vulvas.

Lydia Perović has written for n + 1, C Magazine, One Hour Empire, openDemocracy.org, Books in Canada, Critical Sense, and Social Semiotics. She lives in Toronto, and between non-fiction and fiction.

Sina Queyras is the author most recently of Unleashed (BookThug). She wears a cape whenever she can. She would rather insist than argue.

Christine Sy is of mixed Anishinaabe Euro-Canadian ancestry. Raised at Island Lake, a rural community north of Bawating/Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Christine now resides in Peterborough, Ontario. She is working on her PhD in Indigenous Studies and raising her daughter.

Gillian Sze was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in such venues as CV2, Prairie Fire, pax americana (U.S.), Crannóg (Ireland), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), and as a featured “Parliamentary Poem of The Week” selection. She is also the author of two chapbooks, This is the Colour I Love You Best (2007) and A Tender Invention (2008), as well as the QWF McAuslan Prize shortlisted Fish Bones (DC Books Punchy Writers Series 2009.) She resides in Montreal.

Mickey Vallee has been active in various Canadian music projects since 1992 as an accordionist and soundscape designer and teaches in music and sociology at the University of Alberta.