Contributors to Issue 83

Geoff Andrew is the film editor of Time Out and head of programming at the British Film Institute.

Paule Anglim received her master’s degree in sociology from the Université Laval. She is the owner of Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, which has forged its identity over the past thirty years with exhibitions by the California Beat artists, the Bay Area Conceptualists, and vital experimental movements in art.

Ken Babstock’s most recent collection is Airstream Land Yacht (2006). He lives in Toronto.

Dionne Brand is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her last volume of poetry, Inventory, and her last novel, What We All Long For, were published in 2006 and 2005 respectively. Brand is a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Juan Cruz is the cultural editor of El País and the author of six novels.

Don DeLillo is the author of White Noise, Underworld, and Falling Man, among other works.

Robert Dessaix is a writer, broadcaster, and translator. He is best known for his novels Night Letters and Corfu, his autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace, and his travel memoir Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev, all translated into several European languages. He lives in Tasmania.

Paul Durcan’s most recent collections of poetry are The Art of Life and The Laughter of Mothers. He lives in Dublin.

Mark Fried is a writer and a translator of Eduardo Galeano and many other Latin American writers. He works for Oxfam Canada and lives in Ottawa.

Eduardo Galeano’s most recent works include Voices of Time: A Life in Stories and Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. His works have been published in twenty-eight languages. He was born in Montevideo and was exiled to Argentina and Spain before returning to Uruguay, where he now resides.

Francisco Goldman is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman, and The Divine Husband. His first work of non-fiction is The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? He lives in Brooklyn and Mexico City.

Jim Harrison is a novelist and poet who divides his year between the Mexican border and Montana. His new book, In Search of Small Gods, will be released spring 2009 by Copper Canyon Press.

Michael Ondaatje is the author of various books of poetry and prose, including Handwriting, Divisadero, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and Walter Murch: The Art of Editing Film. He lives in Toronto and is an editor of Brick.

Don Paterson works as an editor and musician, and lectures at the University of St Andrews. His most recent publications include Orpheus (a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus); Best Thought, Worst Thought, a collection of aphorisms; and Landing Light. A new collection of poetry, Rain, will be published later in 2009.

Alex Pugsley is from Nova Scotia. Among his short films are Fidelio and The Pargonopers. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling.

Michael Redhill is still living in France. Unless you’re reading this in August.

Sarah Rothenberg is a concert pianist. Her solo recordings of works by Brahms, Schoenberg, and Fanny Mendelssohn are available on Arabesque Recordings. Her writings have been published in The Threepenny Review, Conjunctions, Nexus, and The Musical Quarterly. She is artistic director of Da Camera of Houston and lives in Houston, New York City, and Paris.

Patricia Rozema is one of Canada’s most accomplished and internationally recognized filmmakers, whose works include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park, and Kittredge: An American Girl.

George Saunders is an American short story writer and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s. His most recent book is a collection of essays, The Braindead Megaphone.

Jaspreet Singh’s most recent novel is Chef. His work has appeared in AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, and he recently finished writing Speak, Oppenheimer, a play for Montreal’s Infinite Theatre.

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, and On Beauty. She recently edited the short story collection, The Book of Other People.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. She is the author of three collections of poems: Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, and Pigeon. She currently lives in Toronto with her husband and their cat.

Esta Spalding is a poet and screenwriter.

Linda Spalding was the editor and publisher of Brick in the good old days.

Jack Spicer’s Poetry as Magic workshop, which ran in 1957, was attended by Robert Duncan, Helen Adam, Jack Gilbert, and George Stanley, among others. He died in 1965; his reputed last words to Robin Blaser were, “My vocabulary did this to me. Your love will let you go on.”

Colm Tóibín is the author of six novels, including The Master and Brooklyn, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.

Jane Urquhart lives in southern Ontario where she writes novels such as A Map of Glass and The Stone Carvers, and where she recently edited The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. Sadly, she owns no pets.

Edmund White has written some twenty books, including a biography of Jean Genet. His most recent novel is Hotel de Dream and his most recent biography is on Rimbaud. He teaches at Princeton and lives in New York City.