Contributor’s Notes

Salvatore Ciolfi has contributed to Nerve, the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Mirror, among other publications. He plays guitar in the band Code Pie and is the co-creator of TheDailyEater.com. His last piece for Maisonneuve was "Adult Language" (Issue 36).

Sheila Heti is the author of How Should a Person Be? (House of Anansi), Ticknor and The Middle Stories. Her last column was "Human Behaviour" (Issue 37). She lives in Toronto.

Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based writer and physiologist. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Patternicity (Nightwood Editions) and The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions), and the winner of This Magazine's 2010 Great Canadian Literary Hunt.

Monica Kidd is a writer, physician, journalist and filmmaker. She is the author of several books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and is currently working on a book about hospital food. She lives in St. John's.

Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method (House of Anansi) and All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts (Snare Books). He lives in Toronto.

Farrah Merali is a freelance writer and producer who splits her time between Toronto and the West Bank. Her work has appeared on CBC News, as well as in the McGill Daily and the Ryerson Free Press.

Scottish journalist Kate Molleson is the assistant editor of Opera Magazine and writes about classical music for the Guardian. She studied clarinet performance at McGill University and wrote for the Montreal Gazette. She will spend most of this winter producing folk music programs for BBC Radio Scotland.

Chris Urquhart has been published in Adbusters, Bitch, COLORS and Russian Esquire, and won the 2010 EVENT Non-Fiction Contest. She is currently writing a book about modern nomads in America with photographer Kitra Cahana, which is also excerpted in this issue.

Candice Vallantin has written for the Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest and Canadian Geographic Travel, among other publications. She lives in Montreal.

Jeff Warren is the author of The Head Trip (Random House). He is a freelance producer for CBC Radio and is currently working on a book about nature and consciousness.