Contributor’s Notes

 JON EVANS is the author of four novels, including Invisible Armies and the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Dark Places. His journalism has been published in Wired, the Globe and Mail and the Guardian. His previous column for Maisonneuve was “In Praise of Devastation” (Issue 32).

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 “Mongalian Invasions” (Issue 32).

RICHARD VANDERFORD is a reporter for a New York-based business news wire. His freelance work has been featured in a range of publications in the United States and his native Canada. His previous piece for Maisonneuve was “The Rikers Island Guide to the Economy.” 

CHRIS LAVIGNE is a Vancouver Island-based freelance writer and web designer who writes regularly about technology for the Escapist, the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Courier and the Tyee.  Read his reporting on video games at maisonneuve.org.

SARAH COLGROVE is a freelance writer and editor living in Toronto. She is a graduate of the McGill Daily school of journalism, a recent Walrus intern and a contributor to This Magazine.

CHRISTOPHER HAZOU is a freelance journalist and writer. A former musician and avid amateur shutterbug, his writings have appeared in the Daily News Egypt, rabble.ca and the Montreal Mirror. He lives in Montreal.

IRA BASEN was a senior producer at CBC Radio’s Sunday Morning and Quirks and Quarks. He has helped create several special series, including News 2.0, a two-part exploration of social media that aired in June 2009. Basen has also written for Saturday Night, the Globe and Mail and the Walrus.

KELLY EBBELS has written for Maisonneuve’s MediaScout, the Montreal Gazette cycling blog “On Two Wheels,” Montreal en santé, Culture11 and Photo District News. A former Montrealer and McGill Daily editor, she currently lives in New York City.

CHRISTOPHER MILLER’S new novel The Cardboard Universe (Harper Perennial) was released in April. Alongside his interest in comic strips, Miller has a large collection of fake and novelty foods gathered from around the world. He currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.

MARCELLO DI CINTIO is the author of Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran (Knopf Canada). His writing has appeared in the Walrus, EnRoute and Geist. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

K. D. ELKINS' "Hardwater" won the 2008 Summer Literary Seminars Non-Fiction Contest. Elkins’  fiction and non-fiction have been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Best New American Voices, the Village Voice and Glamour, among others. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.