AHP enjoys Wim Wenders films and the art of Albrecht Dürer.
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. His music and writing have been published and presented in Canada, the US, and overseas. His writing has been commissioned and broadcast by the CBC. He received a PhD in Music Composition and was the recipient of the KM Hunter Foundation Artist Award for his writing. Seeing Stars, a YA novel, was a finalist for both Canadian Library Association YA book of the year, and an Arthur Ellis Award. His recent books include frogments from the frag pool (with derek beaulieu, poetry; The Mercury Press) and Doctor Weep and other strange teeth (fiction; The Mercury Press.) A new poetry collection is forthcoming from Coach House. He teaches music at Hillfield Strathallan College. Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com and serifofnottingham.blogspot.com.
Jamie Bradley has lived and worked in Ottawa for nine years. He is an instructor and PhD candidate in English at the University of Ottawa. His poetry appears in bywords.ca, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, Variations, the Peter F. Yacht Club and In/Words.
Peter Ciccariello is an interdisciplinary, cross-genre artist, poet, and photographer. His work is a pastiche of language and text in 3-D digital environments. Recent work has appeared both in print & online in, amongst other places, Poetry Magazine, New River, a journal of digital writing and art, dbqp: visualizing poetics, Oregon Literary Review, MOCA The Museum of Computer Art, Otoliths, and Word For/ Word - A journal of new writing. His work has been exhibited at Harvard University, Boston, MA, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ, and at the "Interruptheque - Language driven digital art" Festival, at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Brenda Dunn has a B.A.H in Fine Art and English and an M.A. in English literature and has decided she prefers the visual to the verbal when it comes to communication. She currently works and plays in Ottawa.
Patrick Edwards-Daughtery is an artist cleverly disguised by day as a Montreal software genius. His website is www.secretvespers.com.
Amanda Earl is a renaissance libertine writer publisher bohemian bon vivant anarchist mal content troublemaker with a readily googleable presence on line.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Emily A. Falvey is now an Ottawa-based independent curator, art critic, and fiction writer. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Descant, Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers (Chaudiere Books, 2007), and Departures (above/ground press, 2008). In 2006, she received the Contemporary Curatorial Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Canadian Art Magazine, BorderCrossings, and esse arts + opinions, as well as catalogues published by galleries and museums across Canada. She was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery from 2004 to 2008.
Spencer Gordon is approximately 6 feet tall, weighs 158 lbs., and has brown hair and eyes. He is currently enrolled in the MA in English Literature in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. He has recently been published in zaum 11, Departures (above/ground 2008), Alberta Dispatch [an interview with the author, rob mclennan] (above/ground 2008), and The Puritan, which he co-founded and currently co-edits. Upcoming publications will appear in the next issue of The Frequent and Vigorous Quarterly, in the fiction/poetry collection For Crying Out Loud (Alhambra Books 2008), and in the fiction/poetry collection Dinosaur Porn (Emergency Response Unit Press 2009). He can also be found reviewing for Broken Pencil. Check out his interviews with authors such as Robert Kroetsch and Guy Vanderhaeghe at www.puritan-magazine.com. He can be contacted at spencerkjgordon@gmail.com.
Nicholas Lea's first poetry book, "Everything is Movies" is available through Chaudière Books.
Camille Martin, a Toronto poet and collage artist, is the author of Codes of Public Sleep (BookThug, 2007) in addition to several earlier chapbooks. Recent work is published or forthcoming in The Literary Review of Canada, PRECIPICe, The Walrus, West Coast Line, Chicago Review, This Magazine, White Wall Review, and Stride Magazine. Recently she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete a book of sonnets. Currently she teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University. Her website is http://www.camillemartin.ca
Marcus McCann's chapbooks are available through above/ground press and Rubicon Press. Marcus is the main heartthrob and agitator over at Capital Xtra, Ottawa's gay and lesbian newspaper.
Born in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of over a dozen trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the novella white (2007), the travel book Ottawa: The Unknown City (2008), the non-fiction titles subverting the lyric: essays (2008) and Alberta dispatch: interviews & writing from Edmonton (2008) and the poetry collection a compact of words (2008). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell, poetics.ca) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He recently spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
Sheila E. Murphy's Collected Chapbooks will be published by Blue Lion Books (Peter Ganick and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Publishers) in 2008. In addition, a collection of visio/textual art in collaboration with K.S. Ernst is scheduled to be released from Luna Bisonte Prods (John M. Bennett, Publisher) this year. Her home is in Phoenix, Arizona.
Pearl Pirie is cycling thru projects in her Ottawa home. Her poems have also appeared in 1cent, Ottawater 4.0, Puddle Leaflets, Some Assembly Required, (Pooka Press) and Peter F. Yacht Club. Her two most recent chapbooks are oath in the boathouse (above/ground press, 2008) and Better Ways to Go Than by Aspartame (self-published, 2007). She blogs and is well-known to google.
Roland Prevost lives and works in Ottawa. His first chapbook, 'Metafizz' (Bywords 2007), was launched at the Ottawa International Writer's Festival last fall. He was the recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award for 2006 (judge: Erin Mouré). His poetry's also published in Ottawater 3.0, the Variations Art Zine, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and the Peter F. Yacht Club, among others. He's kept an allsorts lifelong journal, and loves to observe the night sky through his various telescopes.
Jenny Sampirisi writes poetry and fiction. She's variously involved in lit stuff including BookThug, the Scream Literary Festival and the Ryerson Reading Series. Her first book is/was is forthcoming from Insomniac press November 2008 (maybe that date has passed by the time you read this and in that case, it's out). She exists mostly in Toronto.
Steve Venright's most recent book of poetry is Floors of Enduring Beauty (Mansfield Press, 2007). As well as being an author and visual artist, he has released several remarkable recordings through his Torpor Vigil Industries record label, including Songs of Elsewhere (music by Samuel Andreyev), A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario (co-release with Coach House Books featuring voice and text by Christopher Dewdney and soundscapes by Steve Venright) and The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor (spoken dreams by the legendary sleeptalker). Steve was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada in 1961. During one of the great blizzards of early 1982, he crossed the plains of Southwestern Ontario and has resided in Toronto ever since.