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Dana
Bath is originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland but she
now lives in Montreal. She has studied at Memorial University
of Newfoundland, University of Ottawa, Laval University, the
National University of Ireland, and Concordia University,
where she received her MA in English and Creative Writing.
She teaches CEGEP English, and is currently working on a second
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David
Bernans received his PhD in Political Science from York University
in 1998. The Gazette has referred to Bernans as a
“political gadfly” for his high profile efforts
at holding Prime Minister Paul Martin to account for the cuts
to health, education and social spending he made as Finance
Minister. A documentary film was made about Bernans’
shadowing of Paul Martin called Waiting
for Martin. He has published numerous articles in Le
Devoir, rabble.ca, The Parkland Post, Alternatives, the Gazette,
and elsewhere. Bernans grew up in London, Ontario and now
divides his time between St-Pacôme and Montréal,
where he works as a researcher, archivist, and translator
while studying for a graduate diploma in Concordia’s
Études françaises Department. On December 27,
2001, he and his partner, Anne-Frédérique Provencher,
became the proud parents of son, Sasha. |
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| Mia
Rose Brooks was born in the Okanagan between two pine trees
and her mother's legs. She is the dry yellow grass, the sage
brush, the slow lapping water of the lake and the sharp howls
of the coyotes in the hills. She is a small town girl living
in Pointe-Saint-Charles, listening to the red train passing.
Noise
Maker 2003 |
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Taien
Ng-Chan is a Montréal writer, performer
and filmmaker whose works span many different genres. Her
poetry and fiction have been published in numerous anthologies
and journals, including Geist, blue buffalo, Contemporary
Verse 2, and The Capilano Review, and she was twice shortlisted
for the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Since becoming a winner
of the CBC Radio New Voices Drama Competition, Taien has had
three radio plays produced for CBC Radio One. She has also
had drama produced at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, Brave
New Playrites, and as a staged play reading by Playwrights’
Workshop Montreal.
As a performer, Taien has appeared on CKUT
Radio (Montreal), CiTR Radio (Vancouver), and at various venues
across Canada, including We and Our Words Festival (Calgary);
and the VoxHunt and Mainlines poetry series (Montréal).
As an editor and producer, Taien and her partner Joe Ollmann
collectively run the website for Wag Press, which presents
videos, animations, and electronic literature. Taien is Reviews
Editor at Matrix
Magazine. She curated and co-produced a documentary series
of spoken word and music collaborations, with writers Dana
Bath, Lance Blomgren, Victoria Stanton, and musicians Becky
Foon, Gord Allen and Samuel Roy-Bois. These works were presented
on CBC Radio One, and Wag
Press website.
As a filmmaker, Taien explores the visual
elements of poetry and the spoken word. Her film The Red Ribbon
won the Location Michel Trudel Award at Concordia University
for Best Poetic Film, and was screened last year at the Toronto
Reel Asian International Film Festival. |
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photo:
Geeta
Paray-Clarke |
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revered poet, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova
Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Miles Plains,
in 1960. A graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Hons.,
1984), Dalhousie University (M.A., 1989), and Queen’s
University (Ph.D., 1993), he is now the inaugural E.J. Pratt
Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
An Assistant Professor of English and Canadian Studies at
Duke University, 1994-1999, Clarke also served as the Seagrams
Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University, 1998-1999,
and as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia
(2002) and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University
(2005). He has also worked as a researcher (Ontario Provincial
Parliament, 1982-83), editor (Imprint, University
of Waterloo, 1984-85, and The Rap, Halifax, 1985-87),
and newspaper columnist (The Daily News, Halifax,
1988-89, and The Halifax Herald, 1992-). He lives
in Toronto, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia. His many
honours include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement
(1998), Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001),
The National Magazine Gold medal for Poetry (2001), the Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004), the Trudeau
Fellowship Prize (2005), and the Dartmouth Book Award for
Fiction (2006) |
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photo:
Catherine Surprenant |
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Kirk
Johnson was born in Hantsport Nova Scotia. He began his career
in theatre (Acadia, 1996) before moving to Montréal
in the late 1990's to begin an MA in Creative Writing at Concordia
University. Montréal became his adopted home, where
he co-wrote a guide book about the city. He published his
first collection of poems, Companion Pieces (Cumulus Press)
in 1999. Johnson later released the chapbook, Rare Poems and
Other Oddities (JKL Press). For Everyone at the Back is his
second full collection of poetry. He now lives in Nova Scotia's
Annapolis Valley with his wife, Catherine and daughters, Julia
Dae, Luna and Fionah. |
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photo
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Kaie
Kellough is a Montréal writer (via Calgary) who has
been an active member of the literary community since his
arrival in 1998. He has published in Filling Station,
Matrix, Kola, Free Fall, has written for radio (CBC,
CKUT), newspaper (Globe and Mail, Montréal
Gazette), and diverse periodicals (among them Canadian
Dimension and Rabble).
In 2001 he was awarded a Canada Council writing grant to work
on a book of poems set in Montréal. Lettricity
is that book. Kaie is a member of the Québec Writers'
Federation (QWF).
He has been invited to read his work in Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax,
New York, and Thunder Bay, while reading regularly in Montréal.
He was a featured artist in CBC's 2003 Canada Reads series,
to which he contributed a written work based on the Hubert
Aquin novel Prochain épisode. For the past
three years, Kaie has written, researched, produced, and hosted
a CKUT community
radio show. Kaie has organized numerous readings that have
featured other local (and out-of-town) writers. He is an active
member of Montréal-based live
organic improvider Kalmunity Vibe Collective and is co-editor
of Talking Book. |
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photo:
Zibs Black Currant |
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| Jason
'Blackbird' Selman has been performing on the Montréal
Arts scene as both Performance Poet and Musician for the past
ten years. More recently, Mr. Selman has used these talents
in the service of Montréal’s Black
Theatre Workshop Youth Works theatre program. When not
being brought to the verge of tears by the excellent work
of these young thespians, he fulfills himself artistically
as part of the musical collective Kalm
Unity.
In
May of 2005, he undertook the role of producer for the poetry,
music and song series Intimate Sky, a showcase for some of
Montréal’s most talented performers. In May of
2006 his play Death of the Bourgeois Dream was performed
by members of the Youth Works team and in July of that year,
he participated in Habana, Cuba’s annual Hip Hop Symposium
as part of Live Hip Hop group Nomadic
Massive. In January of 2007, he co-edited Talking Book
an anthology of poetry featuring members of the Kalm Unity
collective. |
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photo:
Shannon Gerard |
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Scott
Waters once had to choose between art school and the infantry.
He chose the latter, then the former. He now spends his time
painting, drawing and making little books about a life he
thought he hated. Having been recently chosen for the Canadian
Forces Artist Program he will, accordingly, use his past to
help edge the world towards self-awareness. Scott lives in
Toronto and has recently found a family |
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