The Fieldstone Review

Jessica Antonio is currently an MA candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. She completed her BA, majoring in English, at the University College of the Cariboo (now Thompson Rivers University) in Kamloops, B.C. Her research interests include Postcolonial women's literature and Trauma Theory.

Simon Barker hails from Sydney but has lived in both Melbourne and California. Among other things he has worked as a bus conductor, a teacher, a librarian and a typist on the original Star Wars project. He has studied philosophy and has published scholarly articles about the internet. Some of his fiction has previously appeared in the journal Overland.

Mike Barnes has published five books: Calm Jazz Sea (poems), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; Aquarium (stories), winner of the Danuta Gleed Award: The Syllabus (novel); Contrary Angel (stories); and Catalogue Raisonn (novel). A new collection of poems, A Thaw Foretold will be published by Biblioasis in June 2006.

Kimmy Beach's fourth poetry collection, In Cars, is forthcoming from Turnstone Press. She has published in journals across Canada and the U.K., including CV2, Grain, Prairie Fire, Orbis (U.K.), and The Antigonish Review. Kimmy was the 2005 International Guest Poet for the Dead Good Poets Society in Liverpool, U.K. Her work forms one fifth of Chickweed (chapbook), edited by Robert Kroetsch, and is included in Listening with the Ear of the Heart: Writers at St. Peter's Abbey (both from St. Peter's Press). Kimmy writes from Red Deer, Alberta, where she lives with her husband.

Sheri Benning's second book of poetry, thin moon psalm, is forthcoming with Brick Books in Fall 2007. thin moon psalm won the Alfred G. Bailey manuscript contest, and her first book of poetry, Earth After Rain, Thistledown Press, 2001, was the recipient of two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her work has been published in various Canadian journals, broadcast on CBC radio, and is included in the anthologies Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets; Fast Forward: Saskatchewan's New Poets, Listening with the Ear of the Heart, and Third Floor Lounge.

T. Berto's first play, BASH, won the Toronto Best New Play Prize in 2000. Since then he has had plays performed in Summerworks (three times), Toronto Fringe (four times), Birds and Stones Theatre (Calgary), Theatre and Company (Kitchener), Theatre 8-0-8 (Calgary) the University of Lethbridge and York University. His work has been published in She Speaks, He Speaks, Gay and Lesbian Monologues (Playwrights Canada Press), Cormorant, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, New Quarterly, Carousel and Prairie Fire. He is currently doing a PhD in Theatre Studies, where he received the Lambda prize in 2005 for his work in Queer studies.

Robert Calder is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, where he has taught for forty-two years. He is the author of W. Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom (1972), Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989), Beware the British Serpent: the Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945 (2004), and A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War (2004). He was awarded the 1989 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for his biography of Maugham. He has edited and written introductory essays for four Penguin Classics editions of Maugham novels: Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Magician, and Mrs Craddock. In 2005 he was named Distinguished Researcher by the University of Saskatchewan.

Mandy Catron lives in Capitol Hill, Washington DC where she spends her days making espresso and riding her bike to free art museums. She loves rock climbing and puppies and websites that make fun of celebrities with bad fashion. She will receive her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from American University in May.

Lynn Cecil is a writer and artist who was born in Montreal, has lived in other cities in Canada, the United States, and the South Pacific, and now lives with her family in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is currently working on collections of poetry and short fiction, as well as a series of YA fantasy novels. Recently, she co-edited Outside of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories (Second Story Press, 2005). She also enjoys scuba diving in the Caribbean, especially with sharks.

Jan Conn's sixth book of poetry is Jaguar Rain (Brick Books, 2006). She is a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, in Albany, NY and lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Kate Cushon is careening toward a completed PhD with wild abandon. Her dissertation is about very bad men in the eighteenth century. She has degrees from the Universities of Regina (BA Hon.) and Western Ontario (Master of Arts), and currently studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She is very glad to have returned to the prairies from whence she came. She thinks that good writing is sexy.

Triny Finlay is the author of Splitting Off (Nightwood, 2004) and the chapbook Phobic (Gaspereau, 2006). Her poetry and reviews have been published in various Canadian journals and magazines; her work has also been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2, Qwerty Decade, and Gaspereau Gloriatur. She lives in Toronto.

John Matthew Fox writes fiction and nonfiction from Los Angeles. His blog BookFox is a lively literary weblog with a special emphasis on short story collections. He has fiction forthcoming in Tampa Review, the Los Angeles Review, and Connecticut Review, and his book reviews have been published in Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Short Review, and California Literary Review.

Alison Frost is from Brooklin, Ontario and now lives in Vancouver with her husband Lance and two cats Sprite and Monty - furry, grey good luck charms from Lumsden, Saskatchewan! Alison has had short fiction published in various Canadian journals. "Hello" belongs to her first collection, which will hopefully appear as an actual book one of these days.

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. Her poetry has recently appeared in Prairie Fire, QWERTY, and ::stonestone::. Her poems have also circulated on buses in Manitoba and Alberta. A hand-made, limited-edition chapbook of pregnancy and mothering poems, The Navel Gaze, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in summer 2008.

Laurie Graham will be a grad student in creative writing at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto come fall. She was the winner of the Other Voices 2004 Poetry Contest, and a finalist for the 2008 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. She comes from Sherwood Park, Alberta.

Heidi Greco's poems and reviews have been widely published, both in print sources and online. A collection of her poems, Rattlesnake Plantain, came out in 2002 (Anvil Press). One of her poems is included in this spring's anthology from Harbour, radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett.

Claire Haist was born in London Ontario. After a year at York University, she returned home to complete her BAH in English at the University of Western Ontario. She currently resides in Guelph, where she is completing her MA in drama, and will be making the move back to Toronto in September to pursue her PhD at U of T's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Claire researches the influence of hysteria studies on postmodern gender discourse.

Matthew Hall drinks too much and constantly fights with his girlfriend. He was a forgettable student at the University of Saskatchewan, and now resides in a fishing village called Patonga, in the South Pacific. His poetry and translations have appeared in various South American literary journals and in the University of Buenos Aires Presses, during his travels. His poetry is featured in the current editions of All Rights Reserved, Sorrwoland Press, The Hudson Review of Poetry and Skyline Magazine.

Vivian Hansen's poetry has been published widely in Canadian journals. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many anthologies, most recently in The Madwoman in the Academy. (University of Calgary Press, 2003), and Writing the Terrain (University of Calgary Press, 2005). She has been the ghost-writer of four murder mysteries. Her chapbook of poetry Never Call It Bird: the Melodies of Aids came out in 1998. Her first full-length book of poetry Leylines of My Flesh was published by Touchwood Press in 2002. In 2004, she published Angel Alley, a chapbook about the victims of Jack the Ripper. She is past-president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Society of Poets, Bards and Storytellers. She has served as VP publishing and editor of Forum magazine, and Editor of Freefall. She has been a contributor to OOOO (Originality of Orality On-Line), and the 2005 Calgary Spoken Word Festival.

Roseanne Harvey lives in Montreal, where she is the editor of ascent magazine, Canada's only yoga publication. She has taught ESL in Japan, served coffee in the UK and studied yoga in the BC Kootenays. Her short fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, sub-Terrain and Coming Attractions '06. "Snow White and the Seven Latin Lovers" is part of a collection of linked stories set in Wonder World, a Japanese theme park.

Susan Hayton is a physician working in Saskatoon. Over the past few years she has been spending more and more time writing. This solitary endeavour has been supported by members of her writing group and by her family. She recently gave a reading for the Hericane festival and has been diligently working on editing her first novel.

David Hutton holds a Double Honours B.A. in English and Political Studies from the University of Saskatchewan. Formally the Editor-in-Chief of the Sheaf, the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper, his creative non-fiction and journalism has appeared in a number of Canadian newspapers and magazines.

Leslie Wayne Jones received his B.A. in English Literature at Rutgers University, his M.A. in Journalism and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The University of Arizona in Tucson. In 1984, Mr. Jones joined the IBM Corporation in Endicott, New York, where he worked as an editor and later as an award-winning scriptwriter and producer of high-end corporate video. After leaving IBM in 1991, Mr. Jones returned to Tucson. There he joined the core faculty of the MBA Program at the Eller School of Business and Public Administration and worked as a consultant to local businesses. Today Mr. Jones is a lecturer in the Department of English, and he has returned to writing fiction, inspired by the people of Tucson, his adopted home town.

Alice Kuipers was born in London, England. She moved to Saskatoon in 2003. She has short stories published in magazines and produced by CBC radio. Her first novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door, is published in 27 countries.

Events in Deborah's life, together with her lifelong addiction to words, have stimulated in her a great interest in what happens when words, particularly creative words, hit the online environment. And so, after seven years spent, not in Tibet, but working for a division of HarperCollins Publishers, mostly with web content and information architecture, and a year spent studying at the University of Saskatchewan, she was delighted to wake up one day to discover she was managing editor of TFR. Deborah, who received her BA in English and a minor in journalism from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, spends a chunk of her time studying what T. S. Eliot and Henry David Thoreau have written about simplicity and "the good life" for her MA thesis. When she's not hammering away at Walden and Four Quartets (works she finds increasingly relevant in a world of information overload), she can often be found writing fiction or blogging about how technology affects communication and creativity in the English language. In the past few years, she's also served as Book Review Editor of NightsAndWeekends.com and as web editor of the now-defunct WorkingPOET e-zine. She has published poetry, book reviews, journalism, and creative non-fiction both online and in print venues, and is seeking a home for her first novel manuscript.

Holly Luhning is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and has been broadcast on CBC radio. She is the author of Sway (Thistledown, 2003) and a chapbook, Plush (JackPine, 2006).

Jeanette Lynes is the author of three collections of poetry. She is currently writer in residence at Saskatoon Public Library.

Dave Margoshes is a fiction writer and poet who lives in Regina. His poetry and stories are widely published in Canadian literary magazines. His most recent book of poetry, Purity of Absence, came out in 2001. A story collection, Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, won Book of the Year at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards.

Tyler McCreary is a Master's student in Geography at the University of Saskatchewan. His thesis research explores racial constructions of the Canadian prairies and how they are contested by anti-racist education.

Karen McElrea's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Grain, Arc, Event, Wascana Review, The Prairie Journal, The Dalhousie Review, The Nashwaak Review, Vallum and echolocation, in Body Language (Black Moss Press, 2003), and on Winnipeg buses for Poetry in Motion.

Long ago, Fred Meissner decided to "live life to the fullest" by playing at writing and working as a high school English teacher; having enjoyed some success in both areas, he will eventually retire from teaching, build a papier-mache glider from his rejection slips, and soar peacefully into Oblivion's misty realms. He has a few recent publishing credits, including Ascent Aspirations, Electro-Twaddle, Armada Quarterly, Poetry Canada, and a broadside for Rubicon Press. As well, Cezanne's Carrot, Toward the Light, Horizon Magazine, and Inscribed have each published one of his personal essays.

Christina Mengert holds an MFA from Brown University and is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at Denver University. Her poems have appeared in Salt, American Letters and Commentary, Aufgabe, and Phoebe, among other journals. Her first manuscript, The Last Night of Polaris, has twice been a National Poetry Series Finalist.

Dianne Miller divides her time between Saskatoon, where she teaches at the university, and her farm in Nova Scotia. She has published poems in the Amethyst Review, Grain, and The Antigonish Review. She is a member of the writers' group Sisters' Ink. Her poetry explores, among other things, the slippage between memory and history.Email: dianne.miller@usask.ca

Richard Milligan does ecological fieldwork in the summer and studies 18th century travel writing the rest of the time in pursuit of a Masters in English at the University of Saskatchewan.

Nick Pincumbe, 25, is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. "Q and A" is his first creative nonfiction publication and despite its exploration of the uncomfortable state of modern male bonding, hopefully it shows he loves his parents very much.

Paula Jane Remlinger graduated from the M.A. program in the U of S English Department; her thesis was on the poetry of Saskatchewan author John V. Hicks. She has been previously published in In Medias Res and Backyard Ashes, and is the author of two teacher guides published by Thistledown Press. She also has work forthcoming in the Hagios Press anthology Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets. She lives in Saskatoon with her husband Trent and her diabolical black cat, Dickens.

Kim Roberts is the author of two books of poems, most recently The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press, 2007). She edits the acclaimed online journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and lives in Washington, DC.

Mari-Lou Rowley has published five collections of poetry, most resently Viral Suite (Anvil Press 2004) and Interference with the Hydrangea (Thistledown 2003). Her work has been published and anthologized in Canada and the US -- including on the Canadian Association of Physicists website -- and she has performed across the continent, from Harbourfront to Bumbershoot. In May 2005, Rowley was one of two writers internationally to receive a month-long, full-stipend residency at Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas, Spain. She recently moved from Vancouver to Saskatoon where poets can afford to buy houses.

Originally from Ontario, Jenny Ryan is currently finding her way in Saskatoon as a writer caught up in the career of a Children's Librarian. A longtime fan of Dorothy Parker's, Miss Ryan recently purchased her first cloche hat.

Jill Sexsmith lives and writes in a drafty yellow house in Winnipeg. She is currently at work on a novella and short story collection. Her work has appeared in paperplates and PRISM International.

Shauna Singh Baldwin's first novel What the Body Remembers, the story of two women in a polygamous marriage in occupied India, received the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean). English Lessons and Other Stories received the Friends of American Writers prize. Her second novel, The Tiger Claw, was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize. Shauna's awards include the 1995 Writer's Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. We Are Not in Pakistan, her second collection of short stories, was a Quill and Quire Book of the Year 2007. She is currently working on a novel.

Glen Sorestad is a well known Saskatoon poet, a Life Member of The League of Canadian Poets and was Saskatchewan's first Poet Laureate (2000-2004). He is the author of more than 15 books of poetry, the most recent Blood & Bone, Ice & Stone (Thistledown, 2005). His poems have been translated into several languages, including Finnish and Slovene; his poetry has appeared in over 40 anthologies and textbooks, as well as literary magazines and e-zines all over North America and in Europe.

Michael Spring lives and works in London. He is a director of a design and marketing company and an award-winning copywriter. For some years now, he has been writing short fiction, a gesture of admiration to some of the masters of story-telling. His work has been broadcast on BBC radio, and has appeared in magazines in the US and Canada as well as in the UK.

Susan Stenson is a poet living in Victoria.

Francine Sterle lives in northeastern Minnesota and is the author of a chapbook, The White Bridge (Poetry Harbor, 1999), as well as two full-length collections: Every Bird is One Bird (Tupelo Press, 2001) and Nude in Winter (forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2006).

Jennifer Still's first book of poetry, Saltations, was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2006. Her poetry has appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals and anthologies including Fast Forward: Saskatchewan's New Poets. Jennifer is the regional winner of the 2008 CBC Poetry Face-Off and is currently writing up a flurry in Eastend, SK, with her family.

Yi-Mei Tsiang lives in Kingston, Ontario. She has previously published poetry in The New Quarterly, Room of One's Own, Qwerty, and Echolocation.

Jennifer Wynne Webber is a novelist, playwright, former CBC journalist, and sometime actor (Shakespeare on the Sask.; Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver; Centaur Theatre, Montreal). She is the author of two books, a play, Beside Myself (2001), and a novel, Defying Gravity (2000), which was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book of the Year. A graduate in history from the U of S, Jennifer is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing through the University of British Columbia.

Joanna M. Weston is married with three sons and two cats. She is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, and poetry reviews. Her work has been published internationally in journals, print and online, and anthologies. She has two middle-readers, The Willow Tree Girl and Those Blue Shoes, as well as a collection of poetry, A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary, all in print.

Meagan Wohlberg is an undergraduate student at the University of Saskatchewan, pursuing a Double Honours B.A. in Philosophy and English. She is co-organizer of the Saskatoon Anarchist Bookfair and many other free art and activist events. She loves to give workshops on zine-making and self-publishing. One day, she will complete a graphic novel on metaphysics. This is the first time her poetry has been published anywhere.

Jason Young is an undergraduate student at the University of Saskatchewan, pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering. A Vancouver Film School trained screenwriter, his first produced film, the award-winning "How to Disappear Completely", premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2004.

Kevin Ziegler is a recent graduate of Queen's University's Master's Program. Before moving to Kingston he spent four years in Saskatoon completing his undergraduate degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan. His primary areas of interest are graphic narrative, cultural studies, and contemporary Canadian short stories.

Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a poet, choreographer and arts-educator in Toronto. Her work has been recently published in Room of One's Own, Grain and filling Station, among other literary journals. She is the co-coordinator of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and also a founding member of Tuesday, a Toronto-based writing collective involved in collaborative and multidisciplinary projects. Zier-Vogel is also the founding editor of Puddle Press, an independent press that focuses on the intimate and invested experience between relationship between reader and book and author/creator. Zier-Vogel is a Master's Student in the University of Toronto's Creative Writing program.