Laurier Poetry Pack #2

Catherine Hunter is a poet, novelist, editor of the Musesâ Co. Press, and associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her most recent work is the novella In the First Early Days of My Death. Méira Cook was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, received her PhD in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba, and has recently completed a two-year term as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. She has published poetry, criticism, a novel and, in 2005, Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women . She has taught creative writing in high schools, literature at university, and has worked as a freelance film and arts reviewer and editor. She lives in Winnipeg. Robert Budde teaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published four books (two poetryâ Catch as Catch and traffick , and two novelsâ Misshapen and, most recently, The Dying Poem ). He maintains two online literary journals at and . Tanis MacDonald is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Rue the Day (Turnstone Press, 2008), and the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (WLU Press, 2006). Her book The Daughterâs Way: Canadian Womenâs Paternal Elegies was a finalist for the 2012 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism. Alison Calder has published widely on Canadian prairie literature and culture, including critical editions of Settlers of the Marsh and Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove, and Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn . Her poetry collections are Wolf Tree and In the Tiger Park , and with Jeanette Lynes she is the co-author of Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems . She teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. Nicole Markotic is a poet and critic who teaches at the University of Windsor and edits the chapbook publication Wrinkle Press . She has published two poetry books, Connect the Dots and Minotaurs & Other Alphabets , as well as a fictional biography of Alexander Graham Bell, Yellow Pages . She is currently completing a novel. Leslie C. Sanders is a professor at York University, where she teaches African American and Black Canadian literature. She is the author of The Development of Black Theatre in America , the editor of two volumes of Langston Hughesâs performance works, and a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes . She has written essays on African American and Black Canadian literature. Louise H. Forsyth was the chair of the French department at the University of Western Ontario, dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Saskatchewan, and president of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her academic specializations are contemporary Quebec women poets and playwrights, and she has recently edited Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works and Anthology of Québec Womenâs Plays in English Translation, Vol. I (1966â1986) and Vol. II (1987â2003) . Louis Cabri is author of The Mood Embosser , which was awarded the 2002 book of the year by Small Press Traffic (San Francisco), and âthat canât (forthcoming). He edited, from Philadelphia, the poetsâ newsletter PhillyTalks and co-edited, from Ottawa/Calgary, hole magazine and books. He teaches literary theory, Canadian and US modern and contemporary poetry, and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Laura Moss is a member of the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is on the editorial boards of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature and Studies in Canadian Literature . She edited Frances Brookeâs The History of Emily Montague , and her articles on international authors have appeared in journals and books.