Contributors to Issue 73

Margaret Atwood’s most recent novel is Oryx and Crake. She lives, writes, draws, and sings in Toronto.

Saul Anton writes frequently for Artforum and Bookforum. His fictional dialogue, Warhol’s Dream, is forthcoming in fall 2004 from Vel Press. He is also currently a doctoral candidate at Princeton University.

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

Rosalind Brackenbury is English and lives in Key West. She is the author of The House in Morocco (Toby Press), Seas Outside the Reef (Daniel & Daniel), and other books, including short stories and poetry. Her new book of poetry, Yellow Swing, came out with Daniel & Daniel in April 2004.

Michael Chabon has written two collections of short stories and four novels, most recently the young adult novel Summerland. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Esquire, and Playboy, and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories 2002. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and several collections of short fiction, the latest of which is Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. The translator of numerous works from the French by, among others, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve, and Michel Leiris, she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2000.

Robert D. Denham has edited a number of books by Northrop Frye, including Myth and Metaphor, Reading the World, The Eternal Act of Creation, Frye’s diaries, and the three volumes of his notebooks. He is also the author of Northrop Frye and Critical Method and Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World.

Stan Dragland was born and brought up in Alberta. His most recent book of non-fiction/criticism is Apocrypha: Further Journeys (2003). In April 2004, a stage adaptation that he and Agnes Walsh wrote of Halldór Laxness’s The Atom Station was performed in St. John’s.

Jeffrey Eugenides grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and attended Brown University. He is the author of two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex. He lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife.

One of the world’s most distinguished and respected authorities on English literature in the twentieth century, Northrop Frye (1912–1991) was principal and chancellor of the University of Toronto’s Victoria College and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among his books are Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of Criticism, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, and The Educated Imagination.

Ira Glass is host and producer of the U.S. documentary public radio program This American Life. He began his career as an intern at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., in 1978, when he was nineteen years old.

Gerald Wallace Goode was born in Luling, Texas, in 1925 and was raised in Los Angeles. He studied at the University of Southern California and spent his career as a freelance journalist working for such newspapers as the San Diego Union and the Tucson Globe Dispatch. His photos are taken with a Polaroid 600 and the images are cut from the original photograph. He has been taking these pictures since the late 1990s.

Jim Harrison’s new novel, True North, came out in May with Grove Atlantic in the U.S. and with House of Anansi Press in Canada.

Maggie Helwig has published six books of poetry, two books of essays, a collection of short stories, and one previous novel, Where She Was Standing. Her latest novel, Between Mountains, was published by Knopf Canada in 2004. A human rights activist as well as a writer, she lives in Toronto.

Greg Hollingshead is a novelist and short story writer. He teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta and directs the Writing Studio programs at the Banff Centre. Bedlam, his third novel, will be published this fall.

Aislinn Hunter is the author of Stay (a novel), Into the Early Hours (poems), and What’s Left Us (stories). Her second poetry collection, The Possible Past, is forthcoming this fall from Polestar.

Toronto-based Per Kristiansen began his commercial career apprehensively, for fear of slacking on personal work. Since then, he has found his peace, and a loyal roster of advertising and design clients. When he can, he takes regular exercise in pure frivolity.

Patrick Lane was born in 1939 and is the author of twenty-three books of poetry and fiction. Three new books will be out in 2004: There Is a Season—A Memoir in a Garden, from McClelland & Stewart; Go Leaving Strange, new poetry, from Harbour Publishing; and Breathing Fire II—the New Canadian Poets, co-edited with Lorna Crozier, from Nightwood Editions. He resides in Victoria, B.C., where he teaches at the University of Victoria.

Jim Lang is a phopoepotographer, who has done many, many things in his life.

Joyce Marshall is a fiction writer and translator. She has produced, among other works, English versions of three books by Gabrielle Roy: The Road Past Altamont, Windflower, and Enchanted Summer. Recent publications are Any Time At All and Other Stories and Blood and Bone, collections of short stories. Her correspondence with Gabrielle Roy will be published by University of Toronto Press early next year.

C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930) translated many of the works by Marcel Proust.

George Murray is the author of The Cottage Builder’s Letter (McClelland & Stewart, 2001) and The Hunter (McClelland & Stewart, 2003). He is an associate editor at Maisonneuve magazine as well as the editor of Bookninja.com, in which he has serialized these little comics.

Martin Helmut Reis specializes in black-and-white photography and alternative photographic processes. He lives in Toronto with a garage teeming with bicycles and a fridge full of film.

Daniel Rivas was born in the Skagit Valley of Washington State. He graduated with an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Michigan this April. “The Master of Machines” was winner of a Hopwood Award from the university for 2003– 2004.

The youngest of eleven children, Gabrielle Roy was born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, in 1909. Her first novel, Bonheur d’occasion, won the Prix Femina in France and the Literary Guild of America Award in New York and has been translated into fifteen languages. She also won the Governor General’s Award three times for her writing and was the first woman admitted to the Royal Society of Canada. She died in 1983.

Katharine Vansittart is a freelance journalist with a reverence for the Earth’s beauty and diversity. Her articles on sustainable design and food systems appear in a variety of Canadian magazines. She writes, gardens, and forages in and around the Toronto area.

Eleanor Wachtel is the host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company and The Arts Today. Her book Original Minds: Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel was published by HarperCollins in 2003 and has just appeared in paperback.

Lawrence Weschler was a staff writer at The New Yorker for twenty years and is now the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at nyu, where he has started a magazine of his own, Omnivore. His newest book, Vermeer in Bosnia, will be published this year by Pantheon.

Now aged seventeen, Sara Weschler is on the verge of entering the twelfth grade. Her current passions include writing and theatre (on both the acting and the art-direction sides).