Contributor’s Notes

Michael Barclay works at Maclean’s, and is currently preparing a revised edition of Have Not Been the Same (ECW Press), a book he co-authored about Canadian music between 1985 and 1995.

Salvatore Ciolfi has contributed to Nerve, the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Mirror, among other publications. He also plays guitar in the band Code Pie and is the co-creator of TheDailyEater.com. His last piece for Maisonneuve was “Death of a Sports Fan” (online).

Abou Farman has been published in the Believer, Transitions and Bidoun. He is the producer of Vegas: Based on a True Story, and, as part of the duo caraballo-farman, has exhibited installation and video art in the Tate Modern. His previous piece for Maisonneuve, “Revolution of the Two Ahmads” (Issue 31), was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

Sheila Heti is the author of the upcoming book How Should a Person Be? and the creator of the Trampoline Hall lecture series. Her first two books are Ticknor and The Middle Stories (House of Anansi).

Alex Hutchinson is a Toronto-based journalist who writes for Popular Mechanics, the Walrus and the Globe and Mail. He is currently working on a book about the science of fitness, to be published in 2011.

Rahat Kurd is a writer in Vancouver.  Her prose has appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, Geist and NW15: The Anthology of New Writing (Granta). In 2007, she was a finalist in the  CBC Literary Competition for Creative Non-Fiction. Kurd is currently working on a memoir.

Chandler Levack writes for Spin, the Village Voice and Eye Weekly. She lives in Toronto.

Sarah Liss is a Toronto writer and editor who currently spends her days immersed in Canadian tunes at the CBC.

Mark Mann is a freelance writer. He apprenticed in a stained glass studio for two years in London, Ontario, and now works in a L’Arche community for adults with disabilities in Toronto.

Halifax-based Ryan McNutt blogs at McNutt Against the Music. He writes Maisonneuve’s “Music Room.”

Montrealer Sean Michaels is the founder of the blog Said the Gramophone and writes about music for the Guardian and McSweeney’s.

Dave Morris is the music editor of Eye Weekly in Toronto.

Rebecca Rosenblum’s fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award and the Danuta Gleed Award. Her first collection, Once (Biblioasis), won the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her second, The Big Dream, is forthcoming from Biblioasis and her first chapbook, Road Trips (Frog Hollow Press), was just released.

John Semley writes for Torontoist, CBC.ca, Cinema Scope, Exclaim!, CineAction and Cineaste. His previous piece for Maisonneuve was “Generation Geek” (Issue 34).

David Seymour’s first book of poetry, Inter Alia (Brick Books, 2005), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2008 and were finalists in the 2009 CBC Literary Competition. He lives in Toronto.

Andrew Steinmetz has been the fiction editor of Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press since 2002. Steinmetz’s last novel, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre (Gaspereau Press), was a finalist for the 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. 

Carl Wilson is an editor and critic at the Globe and Mail, and the author of Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Continuum Books).