M.A.

Sachiko Murakami is a Canadian poet and editor. She is the author of The Invisibility Exhibit, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Rebuild. Currently, she is the Poetry Editor at Insomniac Press.

Bibliography

The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks, 2008)
Rebuild (Talonbooks, 2011)

Jason Guriel is an internationally acclaimed Canadian poet and critic. He was the first Canadian to be awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize in 2007, and followed it with Poetry's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing in 2009. His work has appeared in  numerous publications including Canadian Notes & Queries, Parnassus, Poetry, Reader's Digest and The Walrus.

Bibliography

Poetry

Technicolored (Exile, 2006)
Pure Product (Véhicule Press, 2009)

Criticism

The Pigheaded Soul (Porcupine's Quill, 2013)

Nyla Matuk is a Canadian poet. She is the author of two collections, Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and literary journals in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. In addition, her work has been anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 and New Poetries VI, published by Carcanet Press in the U.K. Poems were shortlisted for the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize and Sumptuary Laws was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a best first book of poetry. In 2018, she was the Mordecai Richler Writer in Residence at McGill University.

Bibliography

Oneiric (Frog Hollow Press, 2009)
Sumptuary Laws (Véhicule Press, 2012)
Stranger (Véhicule Press, 2016)

Wayne Clifford is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, including the goundbreaking sonnet sequence The Exile's Papers, which currently extends over three volumes. After attaining his M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1969, he spent three and half decades working at a small college in Kingston, Ontario. Leaving to write full-time in 2004, Clifford was appointed as the Poetry Editor at Porcupine's Quill. He presently lives on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. 

Bibliography

Man in a Window. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1965.

Eighteen. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1966.

Alphabook. Kingston, Ontario: Makework Press, 1972.

Glass Passages. Ottawa, Ontario: Oberon Press, 1976.

An Ache in the Ear. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1979.

On Abducting the 'Cello. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2004.

The Book of Were. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2006.

The Exile's Papers: Part One: The Duplicity of Autobiography. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2007.

The Exile's Papers: Part Two: The Face as its Thousand Ships. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2009.

Jane Again. Emeryville, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2009

Learning to Dance with a Peg Leg. Frog Hollow Press, 2009.

The Exile's Papers: Part Three: The Dirt's Passion Is Flesh Sorrow. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2011.

James Arthur's first book of poetry, Charms Against Lightning, was published as a Lannan Literary Selection by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Republic and The New Yorker. In 2003 he received an MFA from the University of Washington, and he is currently an Assistant Proffessor at Johns Hopkins University.

Bibliography:

Charms Against Lightning. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2012

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. Currently, he's editor of both Reader’s Digest and the Signal Editions imprint of Véhicule Press.

Bibliography

Poetry

The New World. Montreal: Véhicule Press. 1997
Credo. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2000
With English Subtitles. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press 2004
This Way Out. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press. 2009

Criticism

A Lover's Quarrel. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill. 2004
Lazy Bastardism. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press. 2012

As Editor

The New Canon. Montreal: Véhicule Press. 2005

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. 

Williams is the author of Personals, shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award; Not Anyone's Anything, winner of the 2011 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. 

He was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by the CBC. 
 

Bibliography:

Poetry

You Know Who You Are (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010)
Personals (Freehand Books, 2012)

Prose

Not Anyone's Anything (Freehand Books, 2011)

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. A servant of the arts in Canada, he founded and directed Canada's largest creative writing program, at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. He is Poet Laureate of Barrie, Ontario.

Poetry and Fiction
• Meyer, Bruce. A Book of Bread. Toronto: Lyrical Myrical Press, 2009.
• --. Mesopotamia : new poems., Sudbury, Ont.: Your Scrivener Press, 2009.
• --. Dog Days: A Comedy of Terriers. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2009.
• --. As Yet, Untitled ... Toronto: Lyrical Myrical Press, 2006.
• --. Flights. Willowdale, Ont.: KCLF-21 Press, 2004.
• --. Oceans. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2004.
• --. The Spirit Bride. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2002.
• --. Anywhere. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2000.
• --. The Presence. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1999.
• --. Goodbye Mr. Spalding. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1996 [short stories].
• --. Radio Silence. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1991.
• --. The Open Room. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1989.
• --. Steel Valley. [with James Deahl and Gilda Mekler]. Toronto: Aureole Point Press, 1984.
• --. The Aging of America. Toronto: Aloysius Press, 1982.
• --. The Tongues Between Us. London: SWOP Press, 1981.

Criticism, Non-fiction, and Editing
• Meyer, Bruce. Alphabet Table: Memoir of a Childhood in the Language. Black Moss Press, 2010.
• --. Heroes: the Champions of our Literary Imagination. HarperCollins Canada, 2007.
• --. The Bae Sah Moh Anthology. Toronto: KCLF 21 Press, 2007.
• --. The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2000.
• --. Profiles in Canadian Literature: Robert Service. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991.
• --. Profiles in Canadian Literature: Frank Prewett. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991.
• --. Profiles in Canadian Literature: Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1986.
• --, ed. The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction of the English Language. Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada, 1997.
• --, ed. Arrivals: Canadian Poetry in the Eighties. New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1985.
• --, and Barry Callaghan, eds. We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2001.
• --, and --, eds. The Selected Poems of Frank Prewett. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2000, 1987.
• --, and Brian O'Riordan. Lives and Works: Interviews with Canadian Writers. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1991.
• --, and --. In Their Words: Interviews with Fourteen Canadian Writers. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1985.
• --, and Carolyn Meyer. The Reader. Prentice Hall Canada, 2000.
• --, and --, eds. The White Collar Book: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the Professional World. Black Moss Press, 2011.
• --, and --, eds. Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Kingston: Quarry Press, 1988.
• --, and H. Masud Taj. Alphabestiary: A Poetry Emblem Book. Exile Editions, 2011.
• --. and Jonathan Barron, eds. The Dictionary of Literary Biography: The New Formalism. Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 2003.

• 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
• --. Hamburger Valley California. Toronto: ECW, 2001. PS8575 .G54 H35 Robarts Library
• --. Certifiable. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2004. [fiction] PS8575 .G54 C47 Robarts Library
• --. Sitcom. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2007. PS8575 .G54 S58
• --, ed. Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing. Moosehead Anthology XI. Montréal DC Books, 2007. PS8287 .B38 D46 University of Toronto at Mississauga Library
• Porco, Alessandro, ed. Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. Kingsville, Ontario: Palimpsest Press, 2010.

• Agnew, Wendy. The Lillian Lectures. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1998.