Contributor’s Notes

NATALIE ALVAREZ is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. She also pursues an acting career convinced that one day she’ll make it big, retire from her studies, and no longer sleep on a futon.

SHANE ATCHISON co-founded ZAAZ in 1998 and led it to its current position as a leading U.S. Internet consultancy, known for design, technology, and strategies that build business and respect customers. Shane has worked with Fox Television, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. He’s been astride the Seattle interactive scene since the mid-90s.

JENNY BOULLY’s The Body is out from Slope Editions. She is currently at work on a novel. She lives in Brooklyn.

CHRISTIAN BOK is the author of Crystallography(1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia, and Eunoia (2001), both from Coach House Books. He has earned accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry and his conceptual artworks and has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. He lives in Toronto.

BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC lives in Paris. Her poems and translations have been published in The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, Canadian Literature, and Descant, among others. She is currently translating Hªl¿ne Cixous’ Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint for Columbia University Press and working on a manuscript of poems.

STEPEHN BROCKWELL is a Montreal writer living in Ottawa. His books are The Wire in Fences (Balmuir, 1988) and The Cometology (ECW Press, 2001).

CHRISTOPHE BRUNSKI is a photographer, translator, and trilingual writer, the author of L’Aube sous les yeux d’hier(Librarie-Galerie Racine, 1999), The Sea-Glass Chronicles (Xlibris, 2000), and the forth-coming Boken av Blida Skada (Nordgren-Ohlsson). All works may be ordered on-line.

Illustrator EMMA CHADWICK is a massage therapist living in Toronto. Her work appeared in Maisonneuve#1.

JEFF CHANG is 29 years old and received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. He’s currently living in Western Massachusetts and is originally from Illinois.

JOHN COBURN is a Toronto artist whose pen and ink drawings have been featured in several books and magazines. His most recent book, Healing Hearts: A Tribute in Drawings, will be given to the families who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. Its narrative is inspired by families and the many people involved in rescue, relief and ministry, The self-published work is dedicate to the healing process.

Boston-born photographer D.R. COWLES came to Montreal in 1976 and has lived in the city ever since. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Tel Aviv Museum. Four limited edition Portfolios have been made to represent Cowles’ Jewish North Africa project.

KARIN DOERR teaches German at Concordia University in Montreal, is a research associate at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and a teacher at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Women’s Studies. Her latest research involves Holocaust survivors and their recollections of the German language from the Hitler period.

NEAL DURANDO is from Fort Worth, Texas, and lives in France.

Born in St. Louis, MICHAEL EASTMAN has been making photographs for the past 30 years. His work has been collected by many esteemed museums. Eastman’s latest body of photographs, Horses, will be published by Alfred Knopf in 2003.

TOM FARMER sets strategy for customer-oriented interactive projects at ZAAZ, an independent web consultancy in Seattle. Before that, he spent 15 years in TV news, including eight at CNN and Larry King Live.

REMIE GEOFFROI, a previous contributor to Maisonneuve, is a freelance illustrator living in Toronto. He specializes in urban style, caricature, and children’s illustrations. View his work at www.remgeo.com.

MICHAEL GLISSERMAN is a Montreal-based freelance writer who publishes a humour column, “Chapter & Verse,” in the bilingual newspaper Hola! Arkansas. Besides articles, he also writes songs, lyrics, short stories, documentary scripts, and some corporate jargon.

BRIAN HENRY’s Astronaut has appeared in the U.S., England, and Slovenia in translation; Graft has also just been published in England by Arc and will appear in fall 2003 in the U.S. from New Issues. American Incident is due in spring 2003 from Salt Publishing. “Contagion” represents half of the book-length poem Quarantine:Contagion.

TIMOTHY HICKEY is from Richmond, Virginia, and lives in Chicago. His political satire, “Dear Salutation,” appeared in Maisonneuve#1.

JACK ILLINGWORTH is from Crooks Township in northwestern Ontario, but he spends much of his time in cities these days. He is a poet and freelance writer, but he has also done things like make maps of small towns and help build gold mines.

TOM KING was born in Toul, France. Grew up in Massachusetts and Colorado. Attended Columbia University. Spent a decade in Los Angeles. Currently living in Stamford, Connecticut. Poems published in Paris Review, Oulipo Compendium, Lingo, New Observations, murmur.

MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI, born 1949, is the author of three collections of poetry: Coast (Greville Press), Doctor Honoris Causa, and Music’s Bride(Anvil Press), all published in England. So Dance the Lords of Language: poems 1975-2001will be published by Porcupine’s Quill in Canada in 2003. He has recently completed and is seeking a publisher for The Street Philosopher & the Holy Fool, a travel book based upon five journeys he made to Syria.

JOHN LEE is a Vancouver feature writer. His work has appeared in over 50 publications worldwide, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, London Observer, and Guardian Weekly.

PAMELA MAHAFFEY: “I make art, play the violin, and travel whenever possible. In February, I returned to Italy, where I had lived and studied art before and after grad school in Clemson, South Carolina. While in Venice, my fiancª surprised me with the most creative marriage proposal ever. I accepted.”

ERIN MCKENNY received her MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and now teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.

DR. ROBERT MICHAEL is professor emeritus of European history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. A founder of the scholarly e-mail list H_ANTISEMITISM, he has published poetry and more than 50 articles and seven books on the Holocaust and the history of anti-Semitism.

CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON has lived off and on in Texas since 1966, and has been publishing poems since 1962. His latest book is The Word Pavilion and selected poems from The Sheep Meadow Press (2001), and Crypto-Topographia: Stories of Secret Placeshas just been published by Enitharmon Press in London.

CHRISTOPHER MILLER’s first novel, Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano, was recently published by Houghton Mifflin. Excerpts appeared in Maisonneuve#1. He teaches writing at Bennington College in Vermont.

Contributing editor GEORGEMURRAY’s latest book of poems, The Cottage Builder’s Letter (McClelland & Stewart, 2001), was just released in the U.S. His next book of poems is tentatively titled the Hunter and will be available from M&S in spring of 2003. His work appeared in Maisonneuve#1 in print and on-line. He lives in New York City.

DAVE NIDDRIE is a Vancouver-based photographer. He strives to present ideas in the context of social change, working with Adbusters and other multifarious community ventures.

JIM NOLAN lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. “Writer of Light” is his second piece to appear in Maisonneuve. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, Family Fun and on McSweeneys.net.

BARBARA NOVAK is the world’s leading authority on Barbara Novak. She writes personal essays, memoirs, fiction, plays and poetry from her home in London, Ontario.

FRANCIS PONGE was born in 1899 in Montpellier, France. He grew up in Avignon and Caen, and was a student in Paris. He began publishing his work in magazines in the 1920s, but his first book, Le Parti pris des choses, was not published until 1942. It was an immediate success. Numerous other texts followed, most describing common objects such as washing machines, glasses of water, and figs. Some of these have been translated into English, many have not. Ponge died in the south of France in 1988.

PETER RICHARDSON is the author of A Tinker’s Picnic (Vehicule Press, 1999). His poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and Descant. He works at Dorval airport.

ROBYN SARAH was born in New York to Canadian parents and grew up in Montreal. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Poetry, the Threepenny Review, New England Review, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve #1, and elsewhere. A new poetry collection. A Day’s Grace, is forthcoming.

AMY SCHROEDER co-edits Pool, a Los Angeles-based poetry journal; her work has appeared in field, LIT, Slope, and the Seneca Review. She holds a Middleton Fellowship at the University of Southern California.

Visual editor GEORGE SELLERSis a sculptor, human form, bronze. He designs a line of furniture (George Daniel), draws cartoons (see Maisonneuve #1), and creates sets and costumes for ballet companies worldwide.

Contributing editor SEANSINGER’s Discography is the winner of this year’s Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Illustrations and humour appeared in Maisonneuve#1.

LAURA SOLOMON is the poetry editor for Castagraf.com. Her poems have appeared recently in Both, LIT, The Seneca Review, Volt, and other journals, her criticism in Rain Taxi and Verse. Her first collection of poems, Bivouac, is forthcoming from Slope Editions this fall.

TODD SWIFT was born in Montreal on Good Friday, 1966, and currently lives in Paris. He is the co-editor of several anthologies, including Poetry Nation and Short Fuse. His latest collection of poems is Cafª Alibi. He is contributing editor for Matrix and poetry editor for nthposition.com.

MARK TOFT, originally from Wyoming, is a free-lance writer and editor living in Boston. His review of The Royal Tenenbaumsappeared in Maisonneuve#1.

Born in Richmond, Virginia, editor DEREK WEBSTER lives in Montreal.

PAUL WINNER, a recent graduate of the MFA program at Washington University, is completing his first novel. His essay on pop and the band Wilco appeared in Maisonneuve#1. He lives in St. Louis.