His work includes
The Hawryliw Process, Volumes I & II, (a novel), A June Night in the Late
Cenozoic, (short fiction) and Magellan's Clouds (Selected Poems). The
exerpts here are from a just-completed novel, Napoleon's Retreat.
Cheryl Armour is a
Montreal writer, a nice person, and otherwise a big mystery who
hasn't given us her bio yet.
Lance Blomgren
is the author of Practice
(Putaro Poetry Series, 1994), Manual For Beginners (Intrepid
Tourist Press, 1996) and Liner, a novella written between the
lines (ITP, 1997). Originally from Vancouver Island, he presently
resides in Montreal where he is at work on a suburban western novel.
Catherine Kidd has won the Irving Layton award
for poetry in 1993 and for prose in 1994. She
divides her time between writing for paper and writing for voice.
Her recent book/tape everything I know about love I learned from
taxidermy is a collection of performance prosetry with recorded
voice and sound, and was released by connundrum press and the Swamp
this summer. She is currently living in Montreal and working on a
collection of short stories entitled Bestial Rooms.
Bernard MacNab
is a Montreal native who started painting at an early age.
He has painted through several different styles including
surrealism, primitive cubism, abstract expressionism, new-age art and
presently pop art.
He studied commerical art at Dawson College in Montreal, and fine art
at Concordia University. He has primarily sold his work to private
collectors, but has been known to accept corporate commissions.
Ernest Slyman was born
in Appalachia--Elizabethton, Tennessee, and attended East
Tennessee State University. He has been widely published in Sow's Ear, The
Lyric, Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse (Chicago), The NY Times, Reader's
Digest and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, St Martins Press,
edited by Michael Meyer, as well as Poetry: An Introduction, St Martins
Press, edited by Michael Meyer.
His first novel,
a dark psychological mystery about one man's strange devotion to the
color green is called The Little Green Men.
Barry Spacks
A long-time teacher at M.I.T and U. C. Santa Barbara, Barry Spacks is the
author of various novels, stories, this 'n that, plus seven poetry
collections (most recent: BRIEF SPARROW, L.A. press Illuminati, and SPACKS
STREET: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, Johns Hopkins). Recently many of his poems
have turned up in over a dozen e-zines on the Net.
Sharon
E. Sutherland was born in Montreal and taught art for many
years at McGill and Concordia Universities. She travels extensively
and now lives 8 months of the year in the Canadian Arctic where she teaches
art and maintains a studio. She has been showing professionally for over
15 years and is known for her highly original compositions and brilliant
colour sense.
She has studied with the late Jean Goguen, Renata Realinni of O.C.A.,
John Greer of N.S.C.A.D. and Roger Savage R.C.A. of Nova Scotia. Sharon
is currently represented by the Arctic Rose Gallery, Iqaluit, N.W.T.
Ed Ward,
best known for writing about popular music, has appeared in
publications devoted to that subject since 1965, including a short stint as
an editor at Rolling Stone in 1970. A co-author (with the late Geoffrey Stokes
and Ken Tucker) of Rock of Ages, the Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, he
has
also contributed weekly pop music history pieces to National Public Radio's
Fresh Air for nearly a decade. In 1986, he was among the founders of Austin,
Texas' South By Southwest Music and Media Conference, and has remained active in
it ever since. He has also written extensively on books, food, and travel,
taught Cajun cooking at the University of Texas' adult-education program, and
for ten years contributed an ongoing soap-opera/cooking column to the Austin
Chronicle. Based in Berlin since 1993, he is currently engaged in founding
an English-language information clearing-house and magazine there, while
continuing to write journalism and fiction.
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