a.rawlings’ first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), documents a night in the life of Northern Ontario. She is the recipient of the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing (2001) and a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2008). Her escapist fantasies feature kynlíf með álfum, Ghentish snails, and a theremin; and yes, someday she will escape.

BARBARA GODARD has been involved with books and words in different media as reader, writer, translator, teacher. She has published widely on Canadian and Quebec cultures, on literary and translation theory and on cultural and editorial politics. Co-editor of the Coach House translation series and the bilingual feminist periodical, Tessera, her translations of Quebec feminist writers influenced the “cultural turn” in Translation Studies. Among her recent publications are a translation of Nicole Brossard’s Intimate Journal (2004), “Translating Apollinaire after bp Nichol” in One Poem in Search of a Translator: Re-writing ‘Les fenêtres’ by Apollinaire (2008), Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture (2008) and "Beyond Stasis: Poetics and Feminism Today" Open Letter 13, 1 (2009, with Kate Eichhorn) http://www.yorku.ca/bgodard/

Erin Gray is an independent scholar, writer and editor in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Broken Pencil, Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action and The International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Jay MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, and virtual bookseller. He is the author of False Maps for Other Creatures (2005), Mycological Studies (2002), and The Ghosts of Jay MillAr (2000). His most recent collection is the small blue (Fall 2007). In 2006 he published Double Helix, a collaborative "novel" written with Stephen Cain. MillAr is the shadowy figure behind BookThug, an independent publishing house dedicated to publishing books for the enjoyment of intelligent people everywhere, as well as Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. A long-time fixture of the Toronto writing and publishing scene, Jay has participated in such diverse projects as the UNBC/Via Rail Poetry Train, The Scream in High Park, Test Readings Series and Influency: A Poetry Salon. He is also the co-editor (with Mark Truscott) of BafterC, a small magazine of contemporary writing. Currently Jay teaches creative writing at George Brown College.

Trish Salah is a Montreal-based writer and teacher at Concordia and Bishop's Universities. Her first book, Wanting in Arabic, was published by TSAR in 2002, and she is working on a new manuscript, Lyric Sexology. Her writing appears in recent issues of West Coast Line, Atlantis and No More Potlucks.