Contributors to Issue 71

Caroline Adderson is the author of Bad Imaginings, A History of Forgetting, and an upcoming novel.

André Alexis is the author of Childhood and Despair, a collection of stories. His new novel, Asylum, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart.

Nina Arora writes for newspapers and periodicals, as well as film and TV. She lives in Mumbai, India.

John Berger is the author of several novels including G., To the Wedding, and King: A Street Story. His Selected Essays came out in 2001. He lives in France.

Marie-Claire Blais is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Écrire des rencontres humaines, Dans la foudre et la lumière, and Oeuvre poétique. Her fiction, poetry, and plays have been translated widely. She divides her time between Quebec, France, and Key West.

Rosalind Brackenbury was born in London in 1942, and has lived in Key West for ten years. Her latest book is a novel, The House In Morocco, from Toby Press (published in March 2003). She’s a regular contributor to Resurgence magazine in England and writes book reviews for a local paper in Key West.

Brian Brett is a critic, journalist, and author of seven books of poetry and fiction, including The Colour of Bones in a Stream and Poems: New and Selected.

George Fetherling has just published a new travel book, Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma. His second novel will be published by Random House next spring. He writes a books-and-ideas column for the Vancouver Sun.

Rosalind Goss is a visual artist who lives in Toronto. Her most recent exhibition of drawings and paintings was at Spin Gallery.

Günter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature. His most recent novel, Crabwalk, is published by Harcourt.

John MacLachlan Gray is a writer-composer-performer for the stage, film, television, radio, and print. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Governor General’s Medal and the Order of Canada. Until recently he wrote a weekly column for the Globe and Mail. His latest work is The Fiend in Human, a noir thriller set in Victorian London. He lives in Vancouver with his personal demons.

Lucy Gray is an award-winning photographer who has had seven solo shows. Her photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times and Sierra Magazine, in three books, and in documentaries. She lives in California.

Jim Harrison has just published his memoir Off to the Side (Grove Atlantic), and presently has a new book of poems with Ted Kooser, Braided Creek (Copper Canyon Press).

Steven Heighton’s most recent book, The Shadow Boxer, was a 2002 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year in the U.S.A., and has just appeared in Italy. Anansi will publish a book of his poems and translations this fall.

Maggie Helwig lives in Toronto. Her most recent book is One Building in the Earth: New and Selected Poems (ECW Press). Her novel about the Bosnian war and international justice will be published by Knopf Canada in spring 2004.

George Herriman spent his life in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and New York City, but was drawn to northeastern Arizona, a landscape he frequently referred to in his comic art. Between 1902 and 1930 he was a hugely prolific strip artist, responsible for Krazy Kat, as well as Bud Smith, Baron Mooch, and Archy & Mehitabel. He died in 1944 and his ashes were spread over the mesas of Coconino County.

Fanny Howe’s most recent novel was Indivisible (Semiotext(e)/MIT Press). Her Selected Poems was published by the University of California Press in 2001.

Isabel Huggan is the author of You Never Know and The Elizabeth Stories, and the forthcoming Belonging: Home Away from Home. She divides her time between France and Canada.

Thanks to maternal amnesia, Marni Jackson’s 1992 book, The Mother Zone, has recently been finding fresh readers in a new edition by Random House. She is currently collaborating with novelist Barbara Gowdy on an original feature-film screenplay.

A. L. Kennedy is the author of Everything You Need and On Bullfighting. When not in hotel swimming pools, she lives and works in Glasgow.

Ramona Koval is a journalist, writer, and broadcaster. She presents and produces Books and Writing, Australia’s foremost national literary broadcast program.

Patrick Lane has written many books. A new collection of poetry will come out in 2004 as well as a non-fiction book, What We Are Is a Garden, a meditation on addictions and gardens. He is currently collecting the work of new young poets with Lorna Crozier for a new anthology titled Breathing Fire II from Nightwood Editions in 2004. He resides in Victoria, British Columbia.

Sue Lloyd is a Toronto-based visual artist. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and in the United States. She is co-founder of Giant-S, whose project BOX (an anthology of interactive works by visual artists) is currently on exhibition at the Toronto Arts Council.

Lisa Moore’s latest book is the short-story collection Open. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she is working on a novel.

P. K. Page’s latest book of poetry, Planet Earth (Porcupine’s Quill), is shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Forthcoming in May is a book for children, A Grain of Sand, illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka (Fitzhenry and Whiteside); and a book of poems, Cosmologies (David R. Godine).

Freeman Patterson lives in New Brunswick, where he runs workshops on photography and visual design. He teaches actively in Canada and throughout the world, while continuing to work as a professional photographer. He has published a number of instructional books, as well as many collections of his photography, including SHADOWLight: A Photographer’s Life, Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey, and The Garden.

Adrienne Rich is based in San Diego. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Fox and An Atlas of the Difficult World.

Vancouver poet Lisa Robertson has published three books of poetry with New Star Books: XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Weather. A collection of architectural essays will be published by Clear Cut Press in the fall. She is currently visiting poet at the University of California, San Diego.

Art Spiegelman is the Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of Maus and continues to work in comics and graphic art. He lives in New York City.

Louise Steinman is the author of the memoir The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War (Plume). She is working on a book about reconciliation between Jews and Poles.

Tony K. Stewart is a Bengali language specialist whose research and teaching focus on the religious literatures of the fourteenth to nineteenth century. Professor of South Asian religions and director of the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, Stewart divides his time between Raleigh, Charleston, London, and Dhaka.

Sandy Sykes is a British painter and printmaker. She exhibits widely both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows, some of which have toured in Britain, Europe, the U.S.A., and Russia.

Chase Twichell is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press). In 1999 she quit teaching (at Princeton University) to start Ausable Press, which publishes contemporary poetry.

Leonard Woolf was the literary editor of the influential magazine the Nation and Athenaeum, as well as running the Hogarth Press. He died in 1969.


If those careers hadn’t been lost, these works (among others) would never have existed:

Anita Rau Badami: The Hero’s Walk
Russell Banks: Cloudsplitter
Christian Bök: Eunoia
Eavan Boland: Object Lessons
Dionne Brand: Thirsty
Hugh Brody: The Other Side of Eden
Semi Chellas: The Eleventh Hour
George Elliott Clarke: Execution Poems
Robert Creeley: Day Book of A Virtual Poet
Meaghan Delahunt: In The Blue House
Geoff Dyer: Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It
Atom Egoyan: Ararat
Elizabeth Hay: A Student of Weather
Michael Helm: The Projectionist
Sheila Heti: The Middle Stories
Wayne Johnston: The Navigator of New York
A. L. Kennedy: On Bullfighting
Mark Kingwell: The World We Want
Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across the Table
Greil Marcus: The Dustbin of History
Cecily Mòos: Acts of Retraction: Letters and Scoldings
Erin Mouré: Empire, York Street
William Muir: The 18th Pale Descendant
Michael Ondaatje: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Annie Proulx: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Michael Redhill: Lake Nora Arms
Esta Spalding: The Wife’s Account
Linda Spalding: The Follow
Graham Swift: Waterland
David Thomson: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Jane Urquhart: The Stone Carvers
Michael Winter: This All Happened