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Roger Bell
Roger Bell grew up in Port Elgin, Ontario. He taught secondary school English in Simcoe County for 27 years and lives in Tay Township, within dreaming distance of Georgian Bay.
Ronnie Brown
Born in Massachusetts, Ronnie Brown has spent most of her adult life in Canada, living first in Montreal and then in Ottawa, where she now resides with her husband and son.
Greg Cook
Greg Cook, born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was nourished by poetry early. As one of three poets in his immediate family, Cook has made writers and their survival a professional and personal study, which includes his biography of a close friend of 20 years, One Heart One Way / Alden Nowlan: a writer's life (Pottersfield Press, 2003), undertaken following a two-year appointment as writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo.
Carlinda D'Alimonte
Carlinda D'Alimonte grew up in Amerherstburg and has lived in Windsor for her entire life. She lives in Tecumseh, Ontario with her husband and two daughters.
Sharon Drummond
Sharon Drummond died in 2005. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Calgary since 1976. Her poetry was widely published in literary journals and broadcast on CBC radio.
Rishma Dunlop
Rishma Dunlop immigrated to Canada with her family as a one year old child. The white upper middle class Anglophone suburb of Montreal where she was raised, the Sikh Punjabi heritage of her parents, as well as their legacies of British Imperialism, provide the author with a multitude of contrasts and paradoxes within which this exploration of identity is presented.
Beth Everest
Beth Everest has a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Literature (University of Windsor), and a Doctorate (University of Calgary), which focuses on the conflicting roles of a woman as mother, writer and academic. She has worked as a freelance writer and editor, as a travel writer for the Calgary Sun, and a fiction editor for Dandelion Magazine. Beth has been teaching writing and literature and leading workshops for 20 years. Back
Mona Fertig
Mona Fertig was born in Vancouver, attended Vancouver School of Art, founded Canada's first literary nerve centre called The Literary Storefront. Back
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton and grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, but her roots are in Huron County. Pilling's short fiction and poetry have won and been shortlisted for national awards and her poetry has been broadcast on CBC radio. Back
Lea Harper
Lea Harper is musician and poet whose work has appeared in has appeared in Descant, The Antigosh Review, The Fiddlehead Quarry, and several other pubications. Back
Lynn Harrigan
Lynn Harrigan is a teacher, poet and writer living in Toronto. Her most recent projects have involved collaboration with musicians and visual artists whcih have ranged from haiku/art exhibits to radio art recorded with ambient soundscape artists. Back
Robert Hilles
Robert Hilles divides his time between Calgary and Salt Spring Island with his partner Pearl Luke. He won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Cantos From A Small Room. In the same year, his first novel, Raising of Voices, won the Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet Award for best novel. Back
Dale Jacobs
Dale Jacobs is a skilled anthologist, writer, poet and editor whose work includes the well-known anthology of hockey stories and poems Ice. He is editor of North By North Wit, an Anthology of Canadian Humour, published by Black Moss in 2003. Back
Raymond Knister
Raymond Knister, who died tragically in 1932, was the first Canadian writer to be published in Parisian magazines alongside Hemingway, Joyce and Stein. He also edited the first book of Canadian short stories. Back
John B. Lee
John B. Lee is Canada's most prolific poet. He is a three-time recipient of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award, the Eric Hill Award of Excellence in Poetry and has won another 60 prestigious national and international awards for his writing. Back
Hugh MacDonald
Hugh MacDonald is a Charlottetown-born writer who has lived all his life in Prince Edward Island. He taught school there and now writes full time. Hugh was president of the P.E.I. Writers Guild and Vice-Chair of the P.E.I. Council of the Arts. Back
Sid Marty
Sid Marty is an Alberta poet, writer and conservationist. A deceptively simple stylist, Marty sees love, death, forest fires, and children as all part of the natural cycle. Back
rob mclennan
rob mclennan is one of the hottest new poets in this country. Ia matter of just a few years, he has produced seven collections of poetry. rob was born March 15, 1970 in Ottawa, and raised on a dairy farm outside Maxville, Ontario in historic Glengarry County. Back
Susan McMaster
Susan McMaster was born in Toronto, raised in Ottawa along with five younger siblings in a Quaker family. As a young woman, she founded the feminist magazine Branching Out with a bunch of wild Edmonton women (after moving there for Ian's grad studies for 4 years). She started the group First Draft with her brother Andrew in Ottawa, and created many word music performances and projects. Back
Eugene McNamara
Eugene McNamara is a profound voice in Canadian Literature. A native of Chicago, he emigrated to Canada in 1959. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor. Joyce Carol Oates described his short stories thus: "The short stories of Eugene McNamara are warmly, often deeply engaging; they are wry, bittersweet and wise." Back
Mary Ann Mulhern
Mary Ann Mulhern spent eight years in a convent. She entered it shortly after starting to teach at an elementary school in Windsor, Ontario. When she stepped into the classroom wearing the nun's habit, the young students asked what had happened to the red dress that she used to wear. This event became the basis for an all-revealing account about a woman who enters the convent and sees her life transformed by the strict rules of the church and her religious order. Back
Leila Pepper
Leila Pepper lives Windsor, Ontario where she grew up. Her poetry is tough-minded, direct and frank in its telling. She writes with defiance about death, about the loss of youth and the uncertainty of the future. Yet she also mocks her own age. She has appeared on a number of national radio and television shows, because she addresses the big concerns over love and Alzheimers disease and growing old. Back
Ted Plantos (1943-2001)
In the 1960s, wrote up a storm and caught the attention of the media with his bombastic youthful poems. Through the years, he has elevated his status as the Poet of Cabbagetown (where he grew up in Toronto,) to a writer embracing a much broader world. Back
Paul Quenon
Paul Quenon has been a monk since he was 17. He entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, ituated in Kentucky, about an hour’s drive south of Louisville. It was there that Brother Paul met the renowned poet, philosopher, novelist and theologian Thomas Merton. Back
Ken Rivard
Ken Rivard's work has appeared in dozens of national and international publications and on the CBC. Ken has given readings of his work in most cities across Canada and is open to more invitations. He has published three books with Black Moss, two of which, Whiskey Eyes and Bottle Talk, offer a new and unique look at alcoholism. Interview with the author. Back
Paul Savoie
Paul Savoie is one of Canada's most prolific writers, writing in both English and French. He has been involved in the arts for over 25 years. Back
Jeff Seffinga
Jeff Seffinga was born in the Netherlands and grew up in rural Eastern Ontario, but most of his adult life has been lived in Hamilton. For many years he openly worked in the health care business while furtively writing and publishing poetry in journals, anthologies, and other collections in Canada and the United States. Back
Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens was born in Manchester, England and grew up playing rugby on its old brick fields. Once he came to Canada, he continued his university studies at MacMaster University and the University of Saskatchewan. He eventually became a professor of English at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario where he presently resides. Back
Richard Stevenson
Richard Stevenson was born in Victoria, B. C. in 1952. He is the former editor of Prism International. His reviews and poetry have appeared in journals all over the world. He teaches creative writing, and also performs with the jazz/poetry group Naked Ear. Back
Betsy Struthers
Betsy Struthers, who now lives in Peterborough, Ontario, is a poet, novelist, critic and former head of the League of Canadian poets. She is the author of seven books of poetry and three novels. Back
Rosemary Sullivan
Rosemary Sulliant is best known for her biographies of Elizabeth Smart, Margaret Atwood and Gwendolyn MacEwan, the later of which won the 1998 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. She is also the author of two volumes of poetry. Back
Robert Sward
Robert Sward taught at Cornell University, the University of Victoria and the University of California. Now living in San Diego, Sward is a Canadian who worked in Toronto throughout the 1980s as a CBC broadcaster and journalist for The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and The Financial Times. Back
Eva Tihanyi
Eva Tihanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in July 1956 three months before the Hungarian Uprising. Her parents escaped in January 1957 leaving her in the care of her grandparents. The family was not reunited until 1962. Tihanyi grew up in Windsor, moved to Toronto in 1981 and to Welland, Ontario in 1989 where she has taught English at Niagara College ever since. Back
John Tyndall
John Tyndall's poems have appeared in the anthologies That Sign of Perfection, Losers First, I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps, Henry's Creature, and Following the Plough. Free Rein is his first book for Black Moss Press. Back
Paul Vasey
Host of teh CBC radio morning show in Victoria, B.C, Paul Vasey is an award-winning journalist who spent the early part of his career working at newspapers including the Hamilton Spectator and the Windsor Star. Back
Emmanuelle Vivier
Emmanuelle Vivier is a French-born author who now lives and works as a translator in Windsor, Ontario. Her work has appeared in a number of periodicals including The Windsor Review and Room of One's Own. Back
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Readings & Events
2007
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