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Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, editor, and literary critic. He's the author of four collections of poetry including This Way Out (Gaspereau Press, 2009), which was nominated for the Govenor General's Award.

Shane Neilson was born in New Brunswick. He attended the University of New Brunswick, where he completed his BSc. He obtained his MD from Dalhousie University, his MFA from the University of Guelph, and is currently a PhD candidate at McMaster University.

Ian Williams completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto and works as an English professor. He has held fellowships or residencies from Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. 

Jane Eaton Hamilton is a professional writer of poetry, short fiction, novels and non-fiction, and a master gardener. She has worked as a photographer focusing on art and newborns. As a lesbian activist who came out in 1982, she helped bring same-sex marriage to Canada (Barbeau v. British Columbia, 2003 BCCA 406). Her hobbies are dance, painting, and sketching.

Bruce Meyer, a professor of English at Laurentian University at Georgian College, has published 15 volumes of poems, edited many literary anthologies, and authored works of criticism. He is Artistic Director, Leacock Summer Literary Festival and frequently broadcasts on CBC Radio and TV, W Network, and TV Ontario.

Aaron Rafi is a Canadian poet, now living in Toronto, best known for his Surviving the Censor: The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam (2006). Its 48 prose poems are spoken by the Russian poet Osip, his wife Nadezhda, a voice from Stalin's transit camps, and a researcher.

• McGimpsey, David. Lardcake: Poems. Toronto: ECW, 1996. PS8575 .G54 L38 Robarts Library
• --. Dogboy. Toronto: ECW, 1998. PS8575 .G54 D63 Robarts Library
• --. Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture. [non-fiction] Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 2000. GV867.64 .M34 Robarts Library

• Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• --. Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994. PS 8563 R3836R47 Robarts Library

• Williams, Julia. My City is Ancient and Famous. Ottawa: Above/Ground Press, 2004. PS8645 .I445 S56 2004 Robarts Library
• --. My Family is a Genius: Sprawl. Calgary: Addition Editions, 2002.
• --. The Sink House. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004. PS8645 .I445 S56 2004 Robarts Library

• Venright, Steve. Floors of Enduring Beauty. Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2007.
• --. The Illustrated Venright English Dictionary. Toronto: BookThug, 2004. canlit pam 03508 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
• --. It lies on the grass now and then ... [Toronto: CURVD H&Z, 19]83.