Contributors to Issue 70

Margaret Atwood’s most recent novel is The Blind Assassin.

Murray Bail’s most recent novel, Eucalyptus, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1999. He lives in Australia.

Russell Banks is a fiction writer living in upstate New York. His most recent book is The Angel on the Roof.

Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in Israel. He has been music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1991 and of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin since 1992.

Roo Borson lives in Toronto.

Norman Cohn is secretary-treasurer, co-founder, and director of photography of Igloolik Isuma Productions. Prior to moving to Igloolik, Cohn was a widely exhibited video artist, producing In my end is my beginning (1983) and Quartet for Deafblind (1987) among other works.

William Corbett lives in Boston, teaches at MIT, and is the author of, most recently, All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews. He is editing the letters of the poet James Schuyler.

Robert Creeley taught at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s and edited The Black Mountain Review. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, and of several books of prose, including The Gold Diggers, The Island, and Mabel: A Story. He teaches at the University at Buffalo.

David Donald was originally trained as a painter and printmaker but has been photographing extensively since 1990. He uses toy cameras such as the Diana and Holga. He lives and works in Toronto.

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of the novel The Virgin Suicides (FSG, 1993). His new novel, Middlesex, was just published this fall. He lives in Berlin.

Robert Fones is a visual artist living in Toronto. His most recent published collection of artwork is Head Paintings, which came out with Coach House Books in 1998.

Pico Iyer is the author of several books, including The Lady and the Monk, about Kyoto, and, coming this January, a novel, Abandon, a romance of Islam and California.

Lorna Jackson is the author of the story collection Dressing for Hope and the forthcoming novel A Game to Play on the Tracks. She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia.

D. G. Jones’s books of poetry include The Sun is Axeman, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth, and Balthazar. He was for many years the editor of the bilingual magazine Ellipse. He lives in North Hatley, Quebec.

Ramona Koval is a journalist, writer (fiction and non-fiction), and broadcaster. She presents and produces Books and Writing, Australia’s foremost national literary radio program.

Zacharias Kunuk is president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions. His films include Qaggig (Gathering Place, 1989), Saputi (Fish Traps, 1993), Nunavut (Our Land, 1994–1995), and the documentary Nipi (Voice, 1999).

Lisa Moore’s latest book of stories, Open, was published with House of Anansi in spring 2002. She is also the author of Degrees of Nakedness (stories, Mercury Press, 1995).

Erin Mouré is a poet and translator based in Montreal. Her Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person (Anansi, 2001, as Eirin Moure), a trans-e-lation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa’s O Guardador de Rebanhos, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award.

Lorine Niedecker lived most of her life on Blackhawk Island, in Wisconsin. Among her published work are her collected poems, A Granite Pail (North Point Press, 1985), and Harpsichord & Salt Fish (Pig Press, 1991). The last book to be published in her lifetime was My Life by Water (Fulcrum Press, 1970).

Manuel Rivas (A Coruña, 1957) is the most translated writer in Galician today. His selected poems is O pobo da noite (The Night People, 1996). Among his works of fiction are Un millón de vacas (One Million Cows, 1989) and En salvaxe compaña (In Savage Company, 1993). His journalism has been collected in Toxes e flores (Gorse and Flowers, 1992) and Galicia, Galicia (1999).

Michelle Orange lives in Toronto and works as a writer at TVOntario. Her freelance work appears on mcsweeneys.net, among other lean-to publications. She prefers puzzles of the crossword variety.

Cassandra Pybus is the author of nine books. Her controversial biography of the poet James McAuley won the Adelaide Festival Award in 2000. Her latest book, The Woman Who Walked to Russia, is published in Canada by Thomas Allen.

Edward W. Said is a university professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism; Culture and Imperialism; and, most recently, Power, Politics, and Culture. His books have been published in thirty-six languages.

Oswaldo Salas was born in Havana. His studio was in New York City from 1944, until he moved it to Cuba in 1959 at the start of the revolution. He worked for all the major Cuban newspapers and magazines and his work was extensively published. He died in 1992.

John Ralston Saul’s latest book is On Equilibrium, published in paperback by Penguin.

Baden Vance was born and educated in the village of Tweed. After sojourns away, he returned to his hometown in 1985 where he is now a co-owner of Heritage Stonemasonry, specialists in brick and stone restoration.

Eleanor Wachtel is the host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company and The Arts Today. Her upcoming book Original Minds: Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel will be published by HarperCollins in 2003.

Michael Winter is the author of the novel This All Happened and a collection of short stories, One Last Good Look. He is the official Brick Paparazzo.

David Young is currently living drug-free in Toronto.