Contributors to Issue 74

Mark Abley is a non-fiction writer and poet living in Montreal. His poem “Glasburyon,” about the death of languages, has been translated into Esperanto and Channel Islands French.

Margaret Atwood’s most recent collection of non-fiction, Moving Targets, was released in September.

Semi Chellas is the co-creator and executive producer of The Eleventh Hour, a dramatic television series. She has written three movies and directed two short films, including Trouser Accidents. Her fiction and prose have been published in several magazines. She lives in Toronto with her cat, Princess Banjo.

Joseph Curtin builds violins and violas in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He contributes regularly to The Strad magazine, has lectured widely on the art and science of violin making, and is currently working on a novel.

Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written thirteen novels and two stage plays and has won many honours, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Jerusalem Prize.

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.

Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than ten collections of poetry—most recently Combinations of the Universe—and is the Adele M. Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University. He is the author of two collections of essays, A Sympathy of Souls and Great Topics of the World.

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

Internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor, Alberto Manguel is the author of several award-winning books, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading. He was born in Buenos Aires, became a Canadian citizen in 1982, and now lives in France.

Orson Welles said that Max Maven has “the best mind in magic.” Fortuitously, Welles died before he could revise that opinion. In addition to extensive performing credits, Maven has published more than two thousand essays, articles, and technical instructions in the conjuring literature. His new hobby is quibbling with Canadian editors.

Simon McBurney is an actor, writer, theatre maker, and founder and artistic director of the theatre company Complicite. He lives in London, U.K., and divides his time between there and the French Alps, where he keeps pigs. His production of Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes was adapted for and co-produced with the Setagaya Public Theatre in Tokyo and also performed in London and New York City.

P. K. Page’s book of poetry Planet Earth (Porcupine’s Quill) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize for 2003. Forthcoming in the spring of 2005 is A Brazilian ABC (Porcupine’s Quill).

Josh Perlman is a poet, journalist, translator, human rights activist, and musician, currently living and studying international relations in Washington, D.C. His debut CD, Cure for Death, is available on-line.

Alex Pugsley is a Toronto writer and filmmaker originally from Nova Scotia. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling.

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.

Lisa Robertson was born in Toronto. Her books of poetry include The Weather and Debbie: An Epic. Her chapbook Rousseau’s Boat was recently published by Nomados Press in Vancouver. She teaches at the American University of Paris.

Jane Rule is a writer who lives on Galiano Island and collects B.C. paintings.

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of four previous books, including The Monster Lives of Boys & Girls (Green Integer, National Poetry Series). Two new books this fall make six: a book-length poem, The California Poem, and her first non-fiction work, The Book of Jon. She lives and teaches in Colorado.

Sam Solecki’s most recent books are Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje (2003) and Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy (2004).

Baden Vance lives in Tweed, Ontario. He is an editor of Origins magazine and author of Henigan Rush. He also co-edited Them Were the Days. Though troubled by the ways of the world, he is happy to be in it.

Michael Winter is the official Etch A Sketch artist for Brick. His novel The Big Why can be found in every airport in Canada.