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Carolyn Smart Carolyn Smart is the author of five volumes of poetry. She is the founder of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, teaches Creative Writing at Queen's University, and lives in the country north of Kingston. She will be celebrating her latest poetry book, Hooked (Brick Books) which is a collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women. Nic Labriola Nic Labriola is an actor, playwright, poet and teacher. He is a graduate from the University of Toronto. He will be celebrating his first collection of poems Naming the Mannequins (Insomniac Press). Barbara Landry Barbara Landry studied piano and English literature at McGill University. Following that she spent ten years in Mexico where she taught music and English. Since returning to Canada she has been teaching ESL in Toronto. She is the author of two chapbooks and one trade volume of poetry, This is How I Love You (Quattro Books).
Katerina Fretwell Katerina Fretwell, born in wartime New York City, has published five collections of poetry, most recently Samsara: Canadian in Asia, has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Rampike, The Windsor ReView, The Fiddlehead and Jones Av, edited two anthologies for the League of Canadian Poets in 2005 and 2007and chaired the Lowther Jury Prize, 2006. Her art and poetry reside in Canada, Denmark, Japan and The United States and she sang choral tenor in Maia Vimboule's Spring Fantasy featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell. Francine P. Lewis Francine P. Lewis has had poems published in local magazines and short stories in science fiction anthologies. She has also written articles for the opera magazine, ARIAS. She is the author of one science fiction novel - which is still searching for a home - and is currently working on her second novel, a novella and a collection of poetry. Eurydice Dreams (Conch Pearl Press) is her first chapbook. Jem Rolls "Jem Rolls is a British performance poet who is a combination of Dr. Seuss, T.S. Eliot, David Byrne and a madman. You know all the words that aren't in Cam and Legs? They're in How I Stopped Worrying and Learnt to Love the Mall. This is Rolls' Odyssey, his epic 8500 word poem about the search for the meaning of the mall, and how he finds it in line at a mall supermarket as Coward of the County plays over the speakers. Rolls starts out at high energy and ends at about Defcon 9. He's the hardest-working poet in the fringe business, and says so many thoughtful, interesting things, he just might change the way you look at life." Bio by Stephen Hunt
Lauren Carter Lauren Carter lives in Orillia, Ontario, where she writes fiction, poetry and the occasional freelance assignment for magazines and newspapers. She is currently engaged in the MFA Ð Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph-Humber and is working on a novel with the mentorship of Susan Swan. Her first collection of poetry, Lichen Bright, was published by Sudbury's Your Scrivener Press in 2005. Paulos Ioannou Paulos Ioannou was born on the island of Cyprus of Greek ancestry. He immigrated to Canada in 1969. He started writing poetry at a very young age and his work has been published in Greek literary magazines and periodicals. He is the author of four full-length collections written in Greek and is featured in the Anthology of Cypriot Poets . His Greek poetry is greatly influenced by the tragic events in Cyprus and the inter-communal strife between Greek and Turkish Cypriots which was masterfully orchestrated by our esteemed democratic Western powers for their military and geopolitical interest in the area. He started writing in English about four years ago. The Age of Hydra is his first full-length poetry collection in English. Desi Di Nardo Desi Di Nardo is a poet and author in Toronto whose work has been published in numerous North American and international journals and anthologies including the Literary Review of Canada, Globe and Mail, Grain, and Descant. Her poetry has been performed at the National Arts Centre, featured in Poetry on the Way on the TTC, displayed in the Official Residences of Canada, and printed on Starbucks cups. She has also worked as an English professor and Writer-in-Residence. Desi's book of poetry, The Plural of Some Things, was recently published by Guernica Editions. Visit www.desidinardo.com
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