Poets
We welcome these poets... Jon Paul Fiorentino Jon Paul lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the editor of Matrix.
Her 2007 memoir of her life as a poet, The Gargoyle's Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa, is part of the cross-Canada Settlements series sponsored by Black Moss Press. Until the Light Bends, a book and CD combination, was shortlisted for the 2005 Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award.
Her work has recently been anthologized in Reading Writers Reading and The New Canon.
Mark has written books in several genres, ranging from a children's picture book (Ghost Cat) to oral history (Stories from the Ice Storm), and from literary travel (Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies) to poetry (The Silver Palace Restaurant). His latest book The Prodigal Tongue was published in Spring 2008 has already captured a large audience. Along the way he discovered the recipe by which the great artist and poet William Blake made his own white paint. One of his newspaper columns was translated into Nepalese (Abley's, that is, not Blake's). |
Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of five books including the poetry collections Hello Serotonin and The Theory of the Loser Class, which was a finalist for the 2006 A.M. Klein Award and winner of the 2006 Expozine Alternative Press Award. He is also the author of the comedy book Asthmatica. His first novel, Stripmalling, will be out in the Spring of 2009. 
Ottawa writer Susan McMaster is the author of some dozen poetry collections and recordings, including Learning to Ride, a book about learning equitation as an adult, with 27 illustrations by Robert Verrall. Susan is the editor and founding editor of numerous anthologies, books, and magazines; and the creator and performer of music-and-poetry works with First Draft and Geode Music & Poetry (a.k.a. SugarBeat). 
Susan Gillis is the author of two books of poetry, including Volta, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry in 2003. Originally from Halifax, Susan lived on Vancouver Island for many years before settling in Montreal, where she teaches poetry at John Abbott College. 
Mark Abley is a poet, a cat lover, a poker player, a recovering journalist, an inveterate traveler and a diehard social democrat. A winner of both a Rhodes Scholarship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he grew up mostly in western Canada, spent several years in England, and settled in Montreal in 1983.