MARIAN BOTSFORD FRASER is a journalist, broadcaster, critic, author of three non-fiction books, writer and producer of documentaries for CBC, and Books Editor of MORE magazine. She won the 2010 CBC Literary Prize for Creative Nonfiction and a National Magazine Gold Award. She is Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International.

DANIEL CAMERON earned his MFA from New Mexico State University, where he also taught English and worked as an associate editor for Puerto del Sol. He currently splits his time between Portland and Vancouver.

RODNEY DeCROO is a singer-songwriter and poet based in Vancouver by way of Pittsburgh, PA. His first book of poems, Allegheny, BC, was published in Fall 2012 by Nightwood Editions.

ADAM DICKINSON’s poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada and internationally. His book Kingdom, Phylum (Brick Books) was a finalist for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. The Polymers is forthcoming (Anansi, 2013). He teaches at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON.

ZSUZSI GARTNER’s critically acclaimed short fiction collections are Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth. She edited Darwin’s Bastards (D&M), was creative director of Vancouver Review’s Blueprint BC Fiction Series, is an adjunct professor for UBC’s Optional- Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, and lives in Vancouver.

SPENCER GORDON is the author of the badass short-story collection Cosmo (Coach House, 2012). His fiction, poetry and non-fiction can be found in numerous periodicals and anthologies. He is co-editor of the online literary journal The Puritan and the Toronto micro-press Ferno House. He blogs at dangerousliterature.blogspot. com and tweets @spencergordon.

LAURIE D. GRAHAM’s poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous Canadian journals, and she is guest editor of the Spring 2013 issue of Descant. Her first poetry collection, Field, will be published in Fall 2013 by Hagios Press. She lives in Toronto

BRECKEN HANCOCK’s poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in Grain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Arc and Studies in Canadian Literature. Her chapbook Strung came out with JackPine Press in 2005, and her first fulllength manuscript of poems is due out in 2014 with Coach House Books. She lives in Ottawa.

dee HOBSBAWN-SMITH is a poet, chef, award-winning journalist and educator. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in a variety of publications. Her fifth book, Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet, was published in 2012 by Touchwood Editions. She is currently earning her MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

DANNY JACOBS has published poems in The Fiddlehead, Grain, CV2 and The Malahat Review. He works as a librarian in Petitcodiac, NB.

AISHA SASHA JOHN is a poet, essayist and dancer. She’s the author of Gimme yr little quiet (2012) and The Shining Material (2011), both published by BookThug. Her dance work is score-based improvisation. She curates at hugetime.tumblr.com.

ROBERT KOSTUCK is an MEd graduate from Northern Arizona University. His fiction and essays have recently been published in several American and Canadian literary journals. He is currently working on a novel and living near an ocean. His heart belongs to the Chihuahua and Sonora deserts.

MARK JORDAN MANNER’s work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Grain, Prairie Fire and Ricepaper, among others. He lives in Toronto.

ELIZABETH McCAUSLAND is an English instructor at Douglas College and lives in Vancouver.

MARK MUSHET is a photographer, videographer, art director and book-cover designer. He was co-publisher and creative director of Vancouver Review (2004–2011), and is relaunching the magazine in 2013 as VR Media, an online vessel for original video content related to the arts, politics, literature and all manner of subjects connected to the life of the city.

DAN O’BRIEN’s play about war reporter Paul Watson, The Body of an American, is the winner of the 2011 L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and premiered at Portland Center Stage in 2012. His poems about Watson have recently appeared in The Malahat Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.

MEDRIE PURDHAM teaches at the University of Regina. Her poetry has been published in a number of journals, including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Matrix, Grain and CV2, and in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 (Tightrope).

MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN is known across Canada as a writer of urban spaces and an innovator of poetic and narrative form. Vancouver Walking (NeWest) won a BC Book Award for Poetry; Nightmarker (NeWest) was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award; and Recipes from the Red Planet (BookThug) was a finalist for the BC Book Award for Fiction.

SINA QUEYRAS’s most recent book is Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House Books, 2011).

NIKKI REIMER has recently relocated to Calgary from Vancouver. Her first book of poetry, [sic] (Frontenac House, 2010), was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She’s a founding director of the Chris Reimer Legacy Fund Society and sits on the board of the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival. Visit reimerwrites.com.

SHANE RHODES’s most recent book is Err (Nightwood Editions, 2011). He is the poetry editor for Arc, Canada’s national poetry magazine.

LAISHA ROSNAU is the author of the novel The Sudden Weight of Snow (McClelland & Stewart, 2002) and the poetry collections Lousy Explorers (2009) and Notes on Leaving (2004), both published by Nightwood Editions. She lives in Coldstream, BC, where she, her husband and their two children are resident caretakers of the Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary.

BROC ROSSELL is the author of Unpublished Poems (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2012). He teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.

ANDREW F. SULLIVAN was born in Peterborough, ON. His short-story collection All I Want Is Everything is forthcoming (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2013). He no longer works in a warehouse, and is currently the associate fiction editor of The Puritan. Find him at andrewsullivan.com.

SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA won the ReLit Prize for her first poetry book, Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003). New work is forthcoming in Fall 2013.

MARY B. VALENCIA has published with Gomer Press (UK), PRISM international, Descant and The Globe and Mail, among others. She contributes to the Bloordale Press and is looking for a publisher for her manuscript, I Want You, Lynn LaRivière. She enjoys hiking, most recently 900 km of the Camino de Santiago, and performing stand-up. She lives in Toronto.

jb warren grew up in Canada, moved to England, then to Dubai, and most recently to the Netherlands. Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain, Canadian Fiction Magazine, The Antigonish Review, PRISM international and NeWest Review, among others. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC’s Optional-Residency program.

JESSICA WESTHEAD’s novel Pulpy & Midge (Coach House Books, 2007) was nominated for the ReLit Award. Her short-story collection And Also Sharks (Cormorant Books, 2011) was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize.

LIBBY ZELEKE, a.k.a. Livvy Black—her punk-rock pseudonym and nemesis— is unsure she wants any responsibility for the thoughts or actions of the punk rockers she writes about. She works a 9–5 job in the Toronto labour movement and studies creative writing in UBC’s MFA program.