Contributor’s Notes

DAVE BIDINI is a former member of the Rheostatics. He has written eight books and two plays, and directed three films. His next book, Home and Away: Adventures at the 2008 Homeless World Cup, will be published by Greystone Books.

Winner of the 2006 CBC Literary Award for Short Story, and the Metcalf-Rooke Award For Short Fiction 2008, AMY JONES' first book, What Boys Like & Other Stories, is due out from Biblioasis in 2010.

DAMIAN ROGERS was born outside Detroit, and has worked at many fine establishments over the years, including Jack Cauley Chevrolet, Drag City Records, CosmoGIRL! and Poetry magazine. She now lives inside Toronto and was the arts editor at Eye Weekly for five years. Her first book of poems, Paper Radio, will be published by ECW Press in 2009.

TADZIO RICHARDS is a journalist and filmmaker. Currently he is working with Bunbury Films on a documentary about oil- and gas-related issues in Alberta. His last article for Maisonneuve was “An Awful Heathen Thing We Do” (Issue 29, Fall 2008).

MATTHEW KRUCHAK has published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star. Other pieces have been broadcast on CBC Radio, A&E Biography and the History Television. He is currently freelancing from Nepal.

CHRISTOPHER MILLER’S new novel The Cardboard Universe (Harper Perennial) was released in April 2009. 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.

An award-winning Toronto journalist, BRUCE LIVESEY has written for over thirty newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Star, the Walrus, Canadian Lawyer, and Report on Business magazine. He has won a Canadian Association of Journalism award, a National Magazine Award and four Kenneth R. Wilson awards. His last article for Maisonneuve was “Scientology’s Defier” (Issue 27, Spring 2008).

Born and raised in Sicily, journalist LORENZO TONDO has covered the Mafia and politics on both sides of the ocean for the Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald, La Republica and La Stampa. He lives in Toronto.

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 last article for Maisonneuve was “Can a Video Game Make You Cry?” (Issue 30, Winter 2008).

Based in Yellowknife, TIM QUERENGESSER has written for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Beaver, and Adbusters. He is an editor at Up Here magazine. His last article for Maisonneuve was “Mama Obama” (Issue 28, Summer 2008).

The images in this photo essay are taken by photographer and author FRAN HURCOMB. Since arriving in the Northwest Territories in 1975, Hurcomb has lived on a trapline, run sled dogs for almost twenty years and built (and lived on) her own houseboat.

CHRISTOPHER WATT is a graduate student in London who studies resource disputes and contested cities. He has written for the Globe and Mail and walrusmagazine.com. His last article for Maisonneuve was “In the Land of Stalin” (Issue 30, Winter 2008).