Contributor’s Notes

Kimberley Fu’s writing has appeared in the Vancouver Review, the Tyee, the New Quarterly, Room and on CBC Radio. She won second prize in the 2010 Prairie Fire Creative Non-Fiction Writing Contest.

Justin Giovannetti is a Montreal-based journalist and former editor-in-chief of Concordia University newspaper the Link.

Jason Guriel is the author of a collection of poems, Pure Product (Véhicule). His writing has also appeared in Poetry, Parnassus, the New Criterion and Reader’s Digest.

Katherine Laidlaw is an associate editor at Up Here magazine. Her writing has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post.

Chandler Levack writes Maisonneuve’s Music Room. She has also written for Spin, the Village Voice and Toronto Life.

Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method (House of Anansi) and All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts (Snare Books). His first novel, People Park, will be published next year. His previous column was “Money for Nothing” (Issue 40).

Nyla Matuk lives in Toronto. Oneiric (Frog Hollow Press) was her first book of poems. Her poetry, essays, reviews and short fiction have appeared in Prism International, ARC Poetry, Canadian Notes and Queries, Descant and the Globe and Mail. Sumptuary Laws, a new book of poems, is forthcoming with Signal Editions.

Andrew Stobo Sniderman is a freelance writer based in Montreal and Toronto. He has written for the Montreal Gazette, London’s Sunday Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Huffington Post.

Sam Sutherland is a former associate editor at Exclaim! His book about the first wave of Canadian punk, Perfect Youth (ECW Press), will be published next year.

Zoe Whittall’s novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (House of Anansi) recently won a Lambda Literary Award, and her debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant Books) was named one of the top ten best books of the decade in CBC’s Canada Reads 2011.

Carmelle Wolfson is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker currently living in Toronto. Her writing has been published in the Globe and Mail, NOW magazine, Alternet and Briarpatch.

Jacob Wren is the author of Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, Families Are Formed Through Copulation and Unrehearsed Beauty (Pedlar Press).