Contributor’s Notes

Derek Beaulieu’s visual poems are composed without the aid of computers using antiquated dry-transfer lettering. He has published and shown his work internationally, and recently lectured in both Iceland and Norway on conceptual writing and visual poetics. How to Write, a collection of short fiction, is forthcoming from Talonbooks later this year.

Dave Bidini has written eight books and two plays, and directed three films. His next book, Home and Away: Adventures at the 2008 Homeless World Cup, is forthcoming. His previous column for Maisonneuve was “Members Only” (Issue 34).

Chantal Braganza is a freelance writer from Toronto. Braganza has written for the Toronto Star, Worn Fashion Journal, the Ryerson Review of Journalism and Shameless, and has edited for Descant magazine.

Christopher DeWolf has written for Spacing, the Montreal Gazette and the National Post. After completing a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Hong Kong, DeWolf works as a writer, photographer and videographer. His last article for Maisonneuve was “A Perch on the Edge of the World” (Issue 31).

Jon Evans is the author of four novels. His graphic novel The Executor, a collaboration with illustrator Andrea Mutti, is forthcoming from Vertigo. Evans has also written for Wired, the Globe and Mail and the Guardian. His previous column for Maisonneuve was “Behind the Firewall” (Issue 34).

Paul Gallant is a Toronto-based writer and editor who has extensively covered queer issues in Canada. A regular contributor to Eye Weekly and YongeStreetMedia.ca, his work has appeared in the Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Out, This Magazine and on CBCNews.ca.

Don Gillmor’s novel Kanata was published last year by Penguin. He is the author of several non-fiction books and children’s books, and the winner of nine National Magazine Awards.

A Toronto journalist and television producer, Bruce Livesey has written for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Walrus and Report on Business. He has won a Canadian Association of Journalism Award, a National Magazine Award, is a co-winner of the Dupont Award and has been nominated for two Geminis. His last article for Maisonneuve was “The X Factor” (Issue 32).

Christopher Miller's novel The Cardboard Universe (Harper Perennial) was released in 2009.

George Murray lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland and is the editor of the popular literary website BookNinja.com. His five books of poetry include The Rush to Here (Nightwood, 2007), The Hunter (McClelland & Stewart, 2003) and the forthcoming Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms (ECW, 2010).

Drew Nelles is Maisonneuve’s associate editor and an associate web editor at Reader’s Digest. A former McGill Daily editor, he has also worked in book publishing and written for the Montreal Mirror, This Magazine and Canadian Dimension.

Elaine O’Connor is a British Columbia-based journalist. Over the past decade, she has worked as a reporter at the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen and, currently, at the Province, where she also blogs about BC residents’ humanitarian work abroad.

Kevin Patterson is an internist and practices in Nunavut and on Vancouver Island. His first book, The Water in Between, was a New York Times Notable Book. His short fiction collection, Country of Cold, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2003 as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. His novel Consumption was published in 2006 by Random House Canada.

The author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry—most recently (alive): Selected and new poems (2004)—Rhea Tregebov’s work has received the Pat Lowther Award, the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award. Her first novel, The Knife-Sharpener’s Bell, was released in September 2009 from Coteau Books. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.