She is the author of Ayiti(Artistically Declined Press, 2011), a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, all interwoven to represent the Haitian diaspora experience. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Salon, Oxford American, the Rumpus, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Website: ROXANE GAY lives and writes in the Midwest. She has taught at the University of Western Ontario, Dundas Valley School of Art and has a strong passion for advocating for the arts with an emphasis on artist-run culture. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Jennifer is the recipient of several grants and awards including a production grant from the Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec, a grant for emerging artists through the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the arts. Now based in Montreal, Quebec, Jennifer is pursuing her multi-disciplinary artistic career and in her spare time manages the Independent Media Arts Alliance, in the role of National Director. She moved to Nova Scotia in 2003 to run the eyelevelgallery, an artist-run centre in downtown Halifax. JENNIFER DORNER received her BFA from the University of Ottawa, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. As a director, she's had three short films premiere at The Toronto International Film Festival: Green Door (written by Barbara Gowdy) Trouser Accidents (included in the Best Canadian Short Films Showcase) and Three Stories From the End of Everything (nominated by the Canadian Academy for best live-action short). The show ran three seasons and was nominated for 38 awards by the Canadian Academy, winning 9 Semi herself won for Best Writing (with Tassie Cameron). Semi was the Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Canadian prime-time network drama THE ELEVENTH HOUR, two-time Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television winner for Best Series. Jill Bolte Talyor's best-selling My Stroke of Insight for Imagine Entertainment. She is nominated for two Emmys (with Matt Weiner) for her episodes in season five, “Far Away Places” and “The Other Woman”. SEMI CHELLAS is a writer and supervising producer on the sixth season of TV’s Mad Men. He is the Director of Canadian Studies and the Graduate Program Director of Canadian and American Studies at Brock University in St. GREGORY BETTSis the author of The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009), a collection of 150 poems plundered from William Shakespeare's sonnet 150, and four other books of experimental poetry. She has a chapbook forthcoming from Cactus Press in Toronto called Slow States of Collapse. She has poetry appearing, or forthcoming in the Red River Review, In/Words, The Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Prick of the Spindle, Tampa Review, Fox Chase Review, CV2, and Branch Magazine. She was on the poetry shortlist for the 2011 Matrix Litpop Awards and Prism's Poetry Prize 2012. His short story "Sightings of Bono" was adapted into a short film featuring Bono (U2).ĪSHLEY-ELIZABETH BEST is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. He has published two novels including The Eskimo in the Net (Marion Boyars) shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2004. His collection Digging My Own Grave (Dedalus Press) won second prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His most recent collection of poetry Games of Chance: A Gambler’s Manual was published by Oberon Press, Fall 2011. GERARD BEIRNE is an Irish writer now living in Canada where he teaches at the University of New Brunswick and is a Fiction Editor with The Fiddlehead. “Cecil and Jordan In New York,” the title story of her most recent book, was adapted for the screen by Bell and director Michel Gondry in the film anthology Tokyo! Her newest book, The Voyeurs, is in stores September 2012. GABRIELLE BELL'S work has been selected for the 2007, 2009, 20 Houghton-Mifflin Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and has been featured in McSweeney’s, The Believer, and Vice magazines.
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