Contributors to Issue 77

Caroline Adderson is the author of two novels, A History of Forgetting and Sitting Practice, and two short story collections, Bad Imaginings and the forthcoming Pleased To Meet You (Thomas Allen, 2006). She lives in Vancouver.

Ken Babstock is the author of Mean and Days into Flatspin. His poems have been translated into Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, and Latvian. Babstock’s third book, Airstream Land Yacht, was released in spring 2006 by House of Anansi Press.

Baziju is a pen name of Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. Roo Borson is a poet and essayist, and Kim Maltman is a poet and theoretical physicist. Both live in Toronto.

Peter Behrens was born in Montreal and now lives in Maine. He is the author of a short story collection, Night Driving (Macmillan Canada, 1987), and The Law of Dreams, a novel forthcoming from Steerforth Press in September 2006. His son, Henry, was born in February 2006.

Rosalind Brackenbury’s most recent novel is The House in Morocco (Toby Press, 2003). Her latest poetry collection is Yellow Swing (Daniel & Daniel, 2004). She can usually be found in Key West, writing book reviews.

William Corbett lives in Boston; he teaches writing at MIT and edits the magazine Pressed Wafer. In September 2006, Turtle Point Press will publish The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara, edited by Corbett. His edition of Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler was released in 2004.

Lynn Crosbie is a Toronto writer and cultural critic. She has a Ph.D. in English literature and teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her book-length poem Liar was released by House of Anansi Press in February 2006.

Helen Garner is a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She started out in 1977 with the novel Monkey Grip, stayed with fiction till 1993, then crossed over into non-fiction with The First Stone and, in 2004, Joe Cinque’s Consolation. Now she wants to get back across that border.

Taras Grescoe is a Montreal-based writer. He is the author of Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey through Quebec (Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2000); The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (Serpent’s Tail, 2004); and, most recently, The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (HarperCollins, 2006). He is currently working on Bottomfeeder: An Ethical Eater’s Global Search for Vanishing Seafood, to be released in 2007.

Barbara Guest was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1920. She was known predominantly as a writer of the New York School, a group of poets that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler. Among her books are the poetry collections Biography (1980), Musicality (1988), Symbiosis (1999), and The Red Gaze (2005). She lived in Berkeley, California, and died on February 15, 2006.

Jim Harrison’s latest collection of novellas is The Summer He Didn’t Die, published by House of Anansi Press. His most recent book of poetry, Saving Daylight, was released by Copper Canyon Press in April 2006.

Karen Hines is the writer and performer of The Pochsy Plays (Coach House Books), a trilogy of dark comedies that has toured the continent. She also wrote Hello . . . Hello (A Romantic Satire), which was released by Coach House Books in spring 2006.

David Hlynsky is an artist living in Toronto. He teaches studio art and new media at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His primary medium has been photography.

Michael Hofmann lives in Hamburg and London. He is a poet and translator, and recently edited The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems (Faber & Faber). His latest translation is of Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Stories (to be published by Penguin, at the end of 2006).

Anne Michaels’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.

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.

Shelagh Rogers has been with CBC Radio for twenty-five years. For twenty-five years she has wanted to interview Leonard Cohen. She can retire now.

Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and lived most of his life in the United States, where he taught English and comparative literature at a number of institutions, including Yale and Harvard. He is the author of, among other books, Orientalism (1978), Covering Islam (1981), and The Pen and the Sword (1994). He died in New York City in September 2003. His last appearance in Brick was in Brick 70 in his interview with Daniel Barenboim.

Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His trilogy, Seculum, consists of Coming to Jakarta, Listening to the Candle, and Minding the Darkness.

Anik See is a writer and letterpress printer who lives in Amsterdam and on the west coast of Canada. She is the author of A Fork in the Road (Macmillan, 2000), and her work has also appeared in Geist, grain, Prairie Fire, Outpost, Toronto Life, and the National Post. She is the publisher of Fox Run Press.

Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1906. He studied as a pianist and composer at the Petrograd Conservatory, and his first symphony, written as his graduation piece, brought him international acclaim. He went on to write fifteen symphonies, fifteen string quartets, two piano sonatas, numerous preludes and fugues, and a number of operas. He died in Moscow in 1975.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, grew up in southwest Saskatchewan, and now lives in Toronto. She is the author of the poetry collections Short Haul Engine and Modern and Normal.

Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, but has lived most of his life in the United States. His most recent book of poems, Blizzard of One, won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Frank J. Sulloway is a Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. A former MacArthur Fellow, he is the author of Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend (1979) and Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (1996).