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 Michèle Adams’ stories have been published in literary journals,
dramatized on CBC Radio, and performed at festivals. Currently she’s working on a novel and a radio drama; she’s
also active as a screenwriter, with two features in development. Her short script, Beachbound,
won the CBC/BC Film Signature Shorts 2003 competition, was nominated for a Leo, and is
upcoming on CBC television. In addition to writing, she has taught at UBC and SFU, and works as
a freelance story editor and script analyst
 Caroline Adderson grew up in Alberta but has been a Vancouverite now for many years. Her first book, Bad Imaginings (The Porcupine’s Quill 1993), was nominated for a 1993 Governor General’s Literature Award, the 1994 Commonwealth Book Prize and won the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Adderson's first novel, A History of Forgetting (Key Porter 1999), was nominated for the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second, Sitting Practice (Thomas Allen), won the 2004 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
 Salvatore Ala was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1959. He studied philosophy and literature, and has worked at various jobs. His first book, Clay of the Maker, was published by Mosaic Press in 1998. He has also published five broadsides of his work. His poems have appeared in numerous journals; and most recently, in the anthology Sweet Lemons, Writings with a Sicilian Accent ( Legas, 2004). Salvatore lives in Windsor with his wife and children.
Chris Banks’s first book Bonfires received the 2004
Jack Chalmers award for poetry and was also nominated
for the 2004 Gerald Lampert Award. He recently
received an Ontario Arts Council works-in-progress
grant this year for his current manuscript. His poems
have appeared in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead,
The Antigonish Review, Modomnoc, Eye Weekly, and
Echolocation. He writes and teaches in Waterloo,
Ontario.
 Mike Barnes is the author of Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Aquarium, winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award for best first book of stories by a Canadian, The Syllabus, a novel, and the short fiction collection Contrary Angel. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto.
 Clark Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 to French and Anglo-Canadian parents. He moved often during his childhood years as the family followed the usually disastrous fortunes of his furniture salesman father which have been chronicled in the author's `post-modern' autobiography I Had a Father. Blaise graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1961 and then went to Harvard to study writing with Bernard Malamud. In 1962 he moved to attend the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he met and married the well-known American novelist, Bharati Mukherjee. He emigrated to Montreal in 1966 in search of his French-Canadian roots and taught for the next twelve years at Sir George Williams University where he established what is now Concordia's creative writing workshop. After a brief period at York University, Clark and Bharati moved back to the United States where Clark took up the position of Director of the prestigious International Writing School at Iowa.
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David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada an the United States. An avid runner and back yard astronomer, he now lives and works in Fredericton.
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 Leon Rooke is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, editor and critic. He was born in rural North Carolina, but has been a resident of Canada for many years. He has published 28 books, latest among these a novel, The Fall of Gravity, (2000). Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke appears 2001. Nearly 300 short stories have been published.
Over the course of his career, Leon Rooke has been writer-in-residence at numerous north american universities, including the University of Victoria, Southwest Minnesota State University and the University of Toronto. Rooke is also the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Canada-Australia Literary Prize (1981), the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction for Shakespeare´s Dog (1985), and the North Carolina Award for Literature (1990).
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David Solway is a prolific and celebrated poet. Thrice winner of the QSPELL Award for Poetry, he is most recently the author of Reaching For Clear.
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