Contributor’s Notes

Marianne Ackerman is a Montreal Gazette columnist and the publisher of the arts website Rover. Her most recent novel is Piers' Desire (McArthur & Co.).

Ken Babstock's most recent collection of poems is Methodist Hatchet (House of Anansi). His previous collection, Airstream Land Yacht, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award.

Deni Y. Béchard's debut novel Vandal Love (Doubleday Canada) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Tim Falconer is the author of four books, most recently Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement (Wiley), written with Dr. Alex Russell.

Paul Gettlich is a freelance filmmaker, photographer and writer. He is currently studying journalism at Ryerson University, where he received the A.O. Tate Memorial Award.

Megan Lau lives in Vancouver. She has written for Sad Mag, Ricepaper, Best Health and Reader's Digest.

Whitney Mallett is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Toronto. Last year, she won McGill's Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing.

Sean Michaels founded the music blog Said the Gramophone.

John Semley is the A.V. Club's Toronto city editor.

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel The Sentimentalists (Gaspereau). Her most recent book is This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton).

Christopher Szabla lives in New York, where he writes for UrbanPhoto.net.

Peter Tupper has written for Wired, the Utne Reader and Vancouver Magazine. He blogs about the history of sadomasochism at historyofbdsm.com.

Chris Urquhart has written for Adbusters, Colors and Russian Esquire. Her first book, Nomadia, is forthcoming from Greystone.