Contributors
Gil Adamson lives in the Danforth Village. Her first novel, The Outlander, was published in 2007 by Anansi. She is also the author of two books of poetry, Primitive (Coach House, 1991) and Ashland (ECW, 2003), and a book of linked short stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau (Porcupine’s Quill, 1995). Her work has appeared in magazines in Canada and the United States. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Brett Alexander Savory lives in York. He is the Bram Stoker Award–winning editor of ChiZine, the publisher of ChiZine Publications, and a senior editor at Scholastic Canada. He has published two novels and nearly fifty short stories, and writes for Rue Morgue magazine. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Ian Allaby lives in the Annex. He is a periodical writer whose work has appeared in Descant and Storyteller. (Last updated Christmas, 1998.)
Sandra Alland is a writer, multimedia artist, curator, bookseller, micro-press publisher, translator-in-training, and activist living in Kensington Market. Her first collection of poetry, Proof of a Tongue, was published by McGilligan in 2004. Her poetry has been published and presented in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Spain, Scotland, and England. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Renée Alleyn lives near Chinatown and is a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2002, she helped create the magazine’s display typeface, TC Stillson, a modern recreation of Stillson, designed in 1899 by the renowned Chicago type foundry Barnhart Brothers and Spindler. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Jason Anderson lives in Davenport. Showbiz, his first novel, was published in 2005 by ECW. He has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Karen L. L. Anderson lives in the Annex. Her poetry has appeared in the White Wall Review and Pink Ink. (Last updated Christmas, 1998.)
Suzanne Alyssa Andrew lives in Dufferin Grove. Her fiction has appeared in Kiss Machine and Draft. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Joel Baker is a resident of Parkdale. His first published poem appeared in the summer, 2004, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Nancy Baker lives in East York. She is the author of three novels and a collection of short fiction. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Von Bark lives in Little Italy. He is a writer who is descended from a race of giant amphibians. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
David Alan Barry lives in the Palmerston area. He works with seniors and writes in his spare time. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
Gary Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with vague yet colourful delusions about Toronto. He is a writer, composer, and performer. His books of poetry, fiction, and writing for children include Frogments from the Frag Pool (Mercury, 2005), Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth (Mercury, 2004) and Raising Eyebrows (Coach House, 2001). He has contributed to the magazine since 2001. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Jonathan Bennett lives in Port Hope, Ontario. He was born in Vancouver, but grew up in Sydney, Australia. His work has appeared in Descant, Matrix, and Blood & Aphorisms. He is the author of Verandah People (Raincoast, 2003) and After Battersea Park (Raincoast, 2001). (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
Moe Berg lives in Dovercourt Park. He was a member of the Pursuit of Happiness for eleven years. His first book of short stories, The Green Room, was published in 2000 by Gutter. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Tamara Faith Berger lives in the Grange Park area. Her second novel, The Way of the Whore, was published by Gutter in 2004. She is currently working on another book. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Michelle Berry lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She is the author of Blind Crescent (Penguin, 2005), Blur (Random House, 2002), What We All Want (Random House, 2001), the short story collections How To Get There From Here (Turnstone, 1997) and Margaret Lives in the Basement (Somerville, 1998), and a collaborative art-fiction book, Postcard Fictions (Key Porter, 2001), with Andrew Valko. She is also co-editor (with Natalee Caple) of The Notebooks (Anchor, 2002), a collection of fiction and interviews with contemporary authors. She has published short fiction in magazines and journals across Canada. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Ryan Bigge lives in Dufferin Grove. His short story “Her” was published in the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice (Wingate, 2005). (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Matthew Blackett is the founder and publisher of Spacing magazine. Walking the alleys of Toronto was the most critical step in turning him into a true urbanite. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Thomas Blanchard is a photographer living in Rua Açores. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Pascal Blanchet lives in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and on the covers of Penguin books. His graphic novels include White Rapids (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007) and Bologne (Pastèque, 2007). (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Karyn Bonham lives in Dufferin Grove. She writes music reviews for Broken Pencil. (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
Michael Boughn lives in the Palmerston area. His most recent books of poetry are Dislocations in Crystal (Coach House, 2003) and 22 Skidoo (Shuffaloff, 2004). He is also the author of the children’s book Into the World of the Dead (Annick, 2006). He is currently working on a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic, tentatively titled Cosmographia. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Alex Boyd lives in York. He is the host of the IV Lounge Reading Series and has published poems, essays, and fiction in various newspapers and magazines. His first collection of poems, Making Bones Walk, was published in 2007 by Luna. He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Tony Burgess lives in Stayner, Ontario. A feature film based on his novel Pontypool Changes Everything (ECW, 1998), directed by Bruce MacDonald, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Joyce Byrne lives in Edmonton. Her mad skillz with spelling and punctuation earned her a special dispensation from Taddle Creek to continue as the magazine’s proofreader after relocating from Downtown Toronto. She is on the masthead of a handful of award-winning Canadian magazines, mainly because she is magic with numbers, too. She has contributed to the magazine since 2003. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Rebecca Caldwell lives in Trinity Bellwoods and is an editor for Chatelaine. She is the magazine’s founding copy editor, a position she held from 1997 to 2002. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Ben Carrozza lives in the Annex. His first published short story appeared in the Christmas, 2004, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 2004.)
Chris Chambers lives in Niagara. He is the author of Lake Where No One Swims (Pedlar, 1999) and co-author (with Derek McCormack) of Wild Mouse (Pedlar, 1998). He appeared on the first Taddle Creek Disc of Laser-light Reflected Sound and has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Michael Cho lives in Little Portugal, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been published in several Marvel and DC comics, the New York Times, Nick Magazine, Owl, Now, and Maclean’s. He is currently writing and drawing various graphic novel and art-book projects, in between posting stories for his Web comic, Papercut, and updating his sketch blog. Two of his stories from Taddle Creek were nominated for National Magazine Awards, one of which, “Stars,” from the magazine’s Christmas, 2007, issue, was awarded a silver medal. His work has been appearing in the magazine since 2000. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Margaret Christakos lives in Little Portugal. Her works include the poetry collections Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House, 2002) and Wipe Under a Love (Mansfield, 2000), and a novel, Charisma (Pedlar, 2000), which was short-listed for the 2001 Trillium Book Award. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Evie Christie lives in the Church-Wellesley Village. She is the author of the poetry collection Gutted (ECW, 2005), and her debut novella, The Bourgeois Empire, will be published in fall, 2010. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Michael Christie lives in Victoria. He is the author of The Beggar’s Garden, a collection of linked stories forthcoming from HarperCollins. A story from this collection, “Goodbye Porkpie Hat,” was included in the 2008 Journey Prize anthology. He is a senior writer for Color Magazine, a skateboarding/arts publication, and recently completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Kasey Coholan has only moved recently to Toronto. She is both amused and slightly confused about what neighbourhood she actually lives in. [It’s Niagara.—Ed.] While she ponders the nuanced boundaries of Niagara and Liberty Village, she is working on her first novel about a place that has no addresses. In 2009 she became one of the first two Taddle Creek protégés. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
David Collier lives in Hamilton. His books include Surviving Saskatoon (Drawn & Quarterly, 2000) and Hamilton Sketchbook (Drawn & Quarterly, 2002). (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Joey Comeau lives in Chinatown. He is the author of It’s Too Late to Say I’m Sorry (Loose Teeth, 2007), Lockpick Pornography (Loose Teeth, 2005), and the novel Overqualified, to be published in 2009 by ECW. He co-creates, with Emily Horne, the photo comic A Softer World, which appears weekly in the Guardian. The first Softer World collection, Truth and Beauty Bombs, was published by Loose Teeth in 2006. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Kevin Connolly lives in the Danforth Village. He is a poet and a part-time word wrangler. His third collection of poems, Drift, was published in 2005 by Anansi, and was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He is also the author of the poetry collections Happyland (ECW, 2002) and Asphalt Cigar (Coach House, 1995). (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
E. M. Courtemanche lives in Christie-Ossington. She has been published in the poetry anthology Daybreak on the Land (National Library of Poetry, 1996) and hopes to publish an anthology of her own in the near future. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
Dani Couture lives in the Danforth area. She is the author of Good Meat (Pedlar, 2006), and, in 2008, her work appeared on subway station screens across Toronto as part of Nuit Blanche. Her next collection is forthcoming from Pedlar. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Rick Crilly lives in Downtown Toronto. He is the author of The Tablecloth Trick (ECW, 2007). (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Lynn Crosbie lives and writes in Parkdale. Her latest book is Liar (Anansi, 2006). (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Andrew Daley lives in the Village of Brockton. His first novel, Tell Your Sister, was published in 2007 by Tightrope. His first published short story appeared in the Christmas, 1997, issue of Taddle Creek. He was the magazine’s associate editor from 2004 to 2009, and has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Matthew Daley lives in Liberty Village. His work has appeared in Broken Pencil, Exclaim!, Spacing, Cottage Life, and the Wall Street Journal. His Web comic, Mr. Monitor, appears semi-regularly in Broken Pencil and on brokenpencil.com. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Peter Darbyshire lives in Vancouver. He is the author of the novel Please (Raincoast, 2002) and an editor of the Vancouver Province. He has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Claudia Dávila lives in Little Portugal. She works as an independent children’s book illustrator and art director, and publishes the on-line comic Luz: Girl of the Knowing, a weekly strip about learning self-sufficiency and sustainability in the city to prepare for the coming oil crisis. (Last updated, summer, 2008.)
Brian Joseph Davis (1975–1993) lived in Parkdale. He died on the set of the film The Crow, after pretending to masturbate using a vacuum cleaner, not realizing it was plugged in. He is the author of Portable Altamont (Coach House, 2005) and I, Tania (ECW, 2007). (Last updated, Halloween, 2008.)
Trevor Davis lives near the Beach. He is currently working on post-production for a short film based on his story “The God Machine.” His first published poem appeared in the summer, 2003, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
William A. Davison is a miniature Alsatian trapped in a soap bubble floating somewhere in the vicinity of Bloorcourt Village and . . . oh, look—there’s Steve Venright’s apartment way down there! A few of his works have mistakenly appeared in Rampike, Muse Apprentice Guild, Perpetual Motion Machine, and the Mercury anthology Surreal Estate. (Last updated summer, 2005.)
Kim Dawn lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She is an interdisciplinary artist, and a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
John Degen lives in Etobicoke. His first novel, The Uninvited Guest, a story about victory—how a few people win, and most don’t—was published in 2006 by Nightwood. His poem “Bicycles,” from Taddle Creek’s summer, 2002, issue, was nominated for a 2002 National Magazine Award. He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Keneth Doiron is the former owner of Ken’s Fine Books, in Mirvish Village. (Last updated Christmas, 1998.)
Catherine Duchastel lives in Corso Italia. She has been published previously in the zine Slam. (Last updated fall, 2001.)
Stephanie Earp lives in North Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in Ultra Violet and the Antigonish Review. She also writes for Good Girl and Elle Canada. (Last updated summer, 2003.)
Danielle Egan lives in Vancouver. She is a freelance journalist and fiction writer. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Sarah Elton lives in Riverdale. She is a food writer and the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here and Now. Her book, Locavore, will be published by HarperCollins in 2010. She has also edited a fiction anthology, due from Cormorant in the fall of 2009. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Karen Eull lives near the Queen Street West area. She is an emerging artist whose work has been exhibited in Toronto, across Canada, and in the U.S. She has also worked in arts administration at private galleries and public museums across Toronto. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Cary Fagan lives in Dufferin Grove. His latest books are the novel Valentine’s Fall (Cormorant, 2009) and the children’s book Jacob Two-Two on the High Sea (Tundra, 2009). (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Jesse Patrick Ferguson lives in Fredericton. He is a poetry editor of the Fiddlehead, and the author of Harmonics (Freehand, 2009). His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Canadian Literature, the New Quarterly, Grain, Poetry, and Harper’s. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Beth Follett lives in the Annex and is the publisher of Pedlar Press. Her first novel, Tell It Slant, was published in 2001 by Coach House. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Stacey May Fowles lives in Dovercourt Village. She is the author of two novels, Be Good (Tightrope, 2007) and Fear of Fighting (Invisible, 2008), and the co-editor of the anthology She’s Shameless: Women Write About Growing Up, Rocking Out and Fighting Back (Tightrope, 2009). She is also the publisher of Shameless magazine and the circulation director of the Walrus. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Sonya Freedman lives in the Annex. Her work has appeared in Canadian Forum, Parchment, the Fiddlehead, the Antigonish Review, the New Quarterly, Grain, and Quarry. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Elyse Friedman lives near Allenby. She is the author of two novels, Then Again (Random House, 1999) and Waking Beauty (Three Rivers, 2004), and the poetry collection Know Your Monkey (ECW, 2003). Her most recent book is the collection Long Story Short (Anansi, 2007). Her story “Lost Kitten,” from Taddle Creek’s Christmas, 2005, issue, was nominated for a National Magazine Award. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Dayle Furlong lives in Dufferin Grove. She studied English literature and fine arts at York University. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Kiss Machine, the Puritan, Word, and the Voice. She works as a literary publicist and has worked as a screenwriter’s assistant for the Showcase television series Slings & Arrows. Her debut collection of poetry, Open Slowly, will be published by Tightrope in spring, 2008. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Amy Gaizauskas lives in Dufferin Grove. She attends York University. Her first published poem appeared in the summer, 2006, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Camilla Gibb lives somewhere between the Annex and Rosedale. She is the author of Sweetness in the Belly (Doubleday, 2005)—short-listed for the Giller Prize and winner of the 2006 Trillium Book Award—The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life (Doubleday, 2002), and Mouthing the Words (Pedlar, 1999), which won the 2000 Toronto Book Award. She appeared on the first Taddle Creek Disc of Laser-light Reflected Sound, and she has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Sarah Gilbert lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Carte Blanche, Matrix, Le Bathyscaphe, and the Montreal Gazette, and on CBC Radio. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Nancy Gobatto lives in North York. Her work has appeared in Zygote, Kiss Machine, and the Green Tricycle. She is working on a Ph.D. in women’s studies and is supposed to be writing about Anaïs Nin. (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
Dina Goldstein is an award-winning photographer living in Vancouver. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Catherine Graham lives in the neighbourhood of Niagara. She is the author of The Watch (Abbey, 1998) and Pupa (Insomniac, 2003). She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Kristi-Ly Green lives in Christie-Ossington. Her book of short stories, Nits (Exile, 2000), was short-listed for the 2001 ReLit Awards. Her work has appeared in Exile, the Scrivener, Fireweed, the New Quarterly, and Room of One’s Own, the anthologies The IV Lounge Reader (Insomniac, 2001) and Young Bloods (Exile, 2001), and a Mexican collection of Canadian short stories in Spanish. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Katia Grubisic lives in Montreal. She is a writer, editor, and translator whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Grain, and the Fiddlehead. She is also a member of the New Quarterly editorial board. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Jason Guriel lives in Etobicoke. His first collection of poems, Technicolored, was published in 2006 by Exile. His poems have appeared in the Dalhousie Review, Poetry, and the Literary Review of Canada. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Jenn Hardy lives in Montreal. Her writing has appeared in This Magazine, Briarpatch, and the Montreal Gazette. She is the founder of the Montreal jazz site porkpiejazz.com. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Beatriz Hausner lives in Little Italy. Born in Chile, she is the translator of twenty-five titles of poetry, fiction, and children’s literature, principally from Spanish to English. (Last updated summer, 2005.)
Aaron Hawco was last spotted on Queen Street, in 2004. He is a photographer who, among other things, worked on many a project with Taddle Creek’s editor-in-chief throughout the nineties. He is the magazine’s founding photo editor, a position he held from 1997 to 1999. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Ron Hawkins lives in Parkdale. His stories have appeared in Repair and Stand Up 8. He is member of the Lowest of the Low and a former member of Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails, as well as a solo artist in his own right. (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Lee Henderson lives in Vancouver. He is the author of the award-winning short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin, 2002) and the upcoming novel The Man Game (Viking). He is also a contributing editor to the art magazines Border Crossings and Contemporary. His fiction has been featured twice in The Journey Prize Stories (M. & S.). (Last updated, summer, 2008.)
Sheila Heti lives somewhere in Toronto, apparently. She’s so hard to keep track of. Her short story collection, The Middle Stories (Anansi, 2001), has been translated into four languages, published in the U.S. by McSweeney’s in 2002, and hailed by the Globe and Mail as “stylish genius.” Her latest book is Ticknor (Anansi, 2005). Her work has been published in Toronto Life, Blood & Aphorisms, This, and McSweeney’s. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Heather Hogan lives in the Riverdale. Her fiction has appeared in This and SubTerrain. Her chapbook, 2 Stories, was published in 2009 by Proper Tales. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Alfred Holden lives in the Annex. He is a contributing editor of the magazine, the editor of the Ideas section in the Sunday edition of the Toronto Star, and the City Building columnist for the Annex Gleaner. He also contributed to the books Concrete Toronto (Coach House, 2007) and uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (Coach House, 2005). His Christmas, 2000, Taddle Creek essay, “The Streamlined Man,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and, in 2001, he was awarded a Heritage Toronto commendation for his work in Taddle Creek and elsewhere. He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Greg Holman lives in High Park. He has been a professional photographer since 1981, and currently works out of the Studio District on Toronto’s east side. He has photographed the Canada Cup and a royal visit by the Prince of Wales. He has also photographed numerous celebrities, including Anne Bancroft, Natasha Richardson, Eva Marie Saint, Oliviero Toscani, and Tommy Tune. (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Joanne Huffa lives in Parkdale. She is a writer, music freak, and lover of zines, and was once known for her presence at a Toronto alternative weekly. Her writing has appeared in Kiss Machine, Eye Weekly, and Exclaim!. She writes short stories, but feels more comfortable talking about other people. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Kerri Huffman lives in Little Italy. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in various journals, including the Fiddlehead, the Cormorant, Contemporary Verse 2, the Hart House Review, Broken Pencil, and Kiss Machine. She is the magazine’s founding associate editor, a position she held from 1997 to 2002. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Alan Hunt now lives in Georgetown, Ontario, after a decade in Toronto. His comics have appeared in the Toronto Star and the Annex Gleaner, and his strip, Maciek and Fiona, an ongoing story about a day in the life of a disintegrating relationship, enjoyed a four-year run in Exclaim! (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Rose Hunter is a former resident of Australia and Toronto, and currently resides in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her work has appeared in Word Riot, Juked, Storyglossia, and the Barcelona Review. She is also the editor of the online poetry journal YB. Her first published work appeared in the Christmas, 2002, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Christopher Hutsul is a writer and artist living in Parkdale. He is a former staff writer for the Toronto Star, where he regularly contributed drawings and comics, in addition to features and news stories. His comic strip, Dunk McDougall and His Li’l Buddy James, ran in Eye Weekly from 2000 to 2002. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Dorsa Jabbari is a University of Toronto student. (Last updated Christmas, 1997.)
Maureen Jennings lives in Seaton Village. She is the author of several historical mysteries starring her character Detective Murdoch, including Poor Tom is Cold (St. Martin’s, 2001), Under the Dragon’s Tail (St. Martin’s, 1998), and Except the Dying (St. Martin’s, 1997), all set in turn-of-the-century Toronto. Except the Dying received a certificate of commendation from Heritage Toronto. She has also written several short stories and two plays. Her fourth Murdoch mystery, Let Loose the Dogs!, was published in 2003 by St. Martin’s. Shaftesbury Films is expected to begin production of a series of television movies based on her books in 2003. (Last updated summer, 2003.)
Elissa Joy lives in Salem, Oregon. Her latest book, Drinking Songs, was published in 2004 by Pas de Chance. She is the author of What We Do Is Secret (Pas de Chance, 1998), Quinceañera (Pas de Chance, 1996), On Seeing Montgomery Clift Drunk As He Was (Pas de Chance, 1996), and other works of fiction, poetry, and cultural studies. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Sandra Kasturi lives in York. She is the author of The Animal Bridegroom (Tightrope, 2007). (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Bill Kennedy lives in Scarborough. He is a writer, Web designer, co-host of the Lexiconjury reading series, and director of the Scream in High Park poetry festival. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Greg Kennedy lives in the Palmerston area. (Last updated Christmas, 1997.)
Susan Kernohan writes stories and poetry in Christie-Ossington and works at a library near Mel Lastman Square. Her poetry has appeared in Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, SubTerrain, the New Quarterly, and the Antigonish Review. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Jason Kieffer lives in Cabbagetown. His autobiographical comic, Kieffer, was nominated for a Doug Wright Award in 2008 and 2009. His upcoming book, The Rabble of Downtown Toronto, is due soon. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Sabina Kim lives in a leaning house on the border of High Park and the Junction. She is a writer and editor doing graduate work at York University, concentrating on poetry and the empty subject. Her work has appeared in Grain and Absinthe. (Last updated Christmas, 2004.)
Luba Krekhovetsky lives in Toronto. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Sholem Krishtalka lives in Beaconsfield. He is a writer and a painter who made his New York debut with a solo show at Jack the Pelican Presents in spring, 2009, and recently launched a specially commissioned folio of prints with ARTinvestor magazine, based in Munich, Germany. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Liisa Ladouceur is a poet, arts reporter, and real live goth living in Parkdale who likes arcane words and dead things. Her dream date is Jack Skellington. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Brett Lamb is a freelance cartoonist and graphic artist living in the shadow of the Dufferin Mall. He was the graphic designer for the 2004 Hot Docs festival. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Dave Lapp lives near the Church-Wellesley Village. He teaches cartooning to children. His most recent collection is Children of the Atom (Conundrum, 2010). A selection from his first book, the Doug Wright Award–nominated Drop-In (Conundrum, 2008), will appear in the anthology Best American Comics 2010 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His slice-o’-life comic strip, People Around Here, has appeared on the magazine’s back page since 2004, and he has contributed to the magazine since 2001. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
David Lee lives in the Harbourfront area. He is a big nerd who loves video games, computers, and gadgets. When not geeking-out, he can usually be found eating French food or reading Haruki Murakami. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Alexandra Leggat lives in Riverdale. She instructs creative writing classes at Brock University and writes a sports-themed blog. Her most recent collection is Meet Me in the Parking Lot, (Insomniac, 2004), and her work appears in the anthology I.V. Lounge Nights (Tightrope, 2008). She has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
G. J. Lindeblom is a Seaton Village resident and a photographer with New York City gallery credits. He has recently completed his first novel, for which he is seeking a publisher. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
James Lindsay lives in Brockton. He is the co-editor of Exploding Face magazine. His work has been published in Prairie Fire and Quills. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Andrew Loung lives in the Annex. His work has appeared in the Hart House Review, the U.C. Review, and Ça Met Égal. (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Jennifer LoveGrove lives in North York, but is still a Parkdalian at heart. She writes poetry and fiction, edits the literary zine Dig, and makes dirty soap called Soap Scum. She is the author of I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel (ECW, 2005) and The Dagger Between Her Teeth (ECW, 2002). Her first published short story appeared in the Christmas, 2001, issue of Taddle Creek. She has contributed to the magazine since 2001. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Mark Lyall lives in Seaton Village. He works as a graphic designer for a Toronto marketing and communications firm. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Jude MacDonald splits her time between Toronto and the former Huttonville, Ontario. She is the author of Jane (Mercury, 1999) and Grey (Arsenal Pulp, 2001), which she wrote when she was a “Judy.” She is working on a new collection of stories. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
David Macfarlane lives in Sussex-Ulster. He is the author of Summer Gone (Knopf, 1999) and The Danger Tree (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991). (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Dave MacKinnon lives in Little Italy. He is one half of the musical group Fembots, and in 2000 he produced the Taddle Creek Disc of Laser-light Reflected Sound and the Taddle Creek Talking Magazine. FemBots’ new album will be released soon. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Michelle Magnan lives in Calgary, where she works for the Calgary Herald. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Steven Charles Manale lives in Trinity Bellwoods. A regular contributor to Chickadee, Steven draws monsters and robots, for business and pleasure, respectively. He is the creator of the Ignatz Award–nominated kids comic strip, Superslackers. Outside of print, Steven prefers to be called “Steve.” (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Ruth Mandel lives in Seaton Village. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, the Fiddlehead, and Prairie Fire. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
Jennifer Marston lives in Sussex-Ulster, the official name for that neighbourhood sandwiched between Kensington and the Annex. She is a recovering lawyer and the past editor-in-chief of two legal periodicals. She now works as a freelance writer and dabbles in the book arts. In 2009 she became one of the first two Taddle Creek protégés. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Rachelle Maynard lives in the Annex. She has good hair. Her illustrations have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Jason McBride lives in Roncesvalles Village. He writes on pop culture for a number of publications. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Sue McCluskey lives in Toronto. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Derek McCormack lives in Palmerston. His latest book is The Show That Smells (ECW, 2008). He is the author of Christmas Days (Anansi, 2005), The Haunted Hillbilly (ECW, 2003), Western Suit (Pas de chance, 2001), Wish Book (Gutter, 1999), Halloween Suite (Pas de chance, 1998), and Dark Rides (Gutter, 1996), and the co-author (with Chris Chambers) of Wild Mouse (Pedlar, 1998). He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Judy McCrosky, when not circumnavigating the globe, lives in Saskatoon. She runs a creative writing program for Holland America cruise line’s world tour, and is the author of four books, with a fifth due this fall. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Rod McDonald lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He is a type designer and typographer who has produced typefaces that are sold worldwide by FontShop International and Agfa Monotype. He has also designed type for the range of Canadian periodicals, including Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Applied Arts, Saturday Night, and Canadian Business. Cartier Book, his reworking of Cartier, Canada’s first typeface, was chosen for inclusion in the Monotype Classics Library of typefaces. In 2002, he designed the magazine’s display typeface, TC Stillson, a modern recreation of Stillson, designed in 1899 by the renowned Chicago type foundry Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
Deanna McFadden recently bought a fixer-upper in the Village of Brockton. Currently, not losing her mind is on the top of her list of priorities. She has contributed to the magazine since 1999. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Catherine McGuire lives in Sweet Home, Oregon. Her work has appeared in the Smoking Poet, the New Verse News, Folio:, and Adagio. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Sally McKay lives in Little Italy. She is an artist, writer, and curator. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Saro McKenna is a Seaton Village resident. She is a national science fair winner and has been awarded a scholarship to complete high school in Switzerland. Her first published work appeared in the Christmas, 1999, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 2000.)
Lauren McKeon lives in an undisclosed suburban location. She recently graduated from being a poor, starving student to a poor, slightly less hungry freelancer. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Brian McLachlan lives in the Grange Park area. He writes for Owl, writes and draws the cartoon The Princess Planet, for the Toronto Star, and has written for Vice. He is the author of the graphic novel No Dead Time (Oni, 2004). (Last updated summer, 2005.)
Leanna McLennan lives in Seaton Village. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Antigonish Review, Broken Pencil, Contemporary Verse 2, the Fiddlehead, Fireweed, and the anthology Third Floor Lounge (Littlefishcartpress, 2004). (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Mark Medley lives near Little Italy, Toronto. He writes about arts and culture for the National Post. His writing has appeared in publications across North America, including the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, Descant, This Magazine, Spacing, and the Mississippi Review. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Chris Michalski lives in Etobicoke. His poems and translations have appeared in Prism International, the Antigonish Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Marlboro Review, Fire, and Puerto del Sol. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Claude Miles lives in Seaton Village. He is a retired professional newspaper photographer. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
Alex Mlynek lives in the Village of Brockton. She is a contributing editor of the magazine, and a writer, editor, and researcher in her own right. Her work has appeared in This Magazine, Azure, and Broken Pencil. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Susan Mockler lives in Summerhill. She has recently completed a collection of linked short stories, entitled Not Available in Canada. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Susana Molinolo lives between Little India and the Beach. She is a mom, wife, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Now, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. She is currently the editor of Triathlete magazine and a columnist for weewelcome.ca, and is writing/editing a parenting anthology about nursing in public. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
John Montgomery is living outside the city, but just for a while. He is the associate art director of Toronto Life. (Last updated, summer, 2009.)
Mary Ann Moore lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She facilitates Flying Mermaids, a women’s writing circle. Her poetry has appeared in the Church-Wellesley Review, Seeds, and Jones Ave. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Nathaniel G. Moore lives in Christie-Ossington. His books include Wrong Bar (Tightrope, 2009) and the upcoming Pastels Are Pretty Much the Polar Opposite of Chalk, which will be published by DC Books in early 2010. He also wrote the film Macho Girls, which was inspired in part by “Savage.” Previously, he had never been published by Taddle Creek. Ever. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Jim Munroe lives in the Annex. His latest novel, An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, was released in 2004 by No Media Kings. He is also the author of Everybody In Silico (No Media Kings, 2002), Angry Young Spaceman (No Media Kings, 2000) and Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask (HarperCollins, 1999). His next book, Therefore Repent!, a graphic-novel collaboration with Salgood Sam, will be published in 2007. He has contributed to the magazine since 2001. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
George Murray lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is the author of three books, including The Cottage Builder’s Letter (M. & S., 2001). His work has appeared in publications in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Australia. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Terry Murray lives in Lawrence Park. Her book about gargoyles and other architectural sculpture, Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto (Anansi, 2006), won the 2007 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. She is also the clinical editor of the Medical Post. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Hal Niedzviecki lives in Little Portugal. He is the author of The Program (Random House, 2005), Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity, (Penguin, 2004), Ditch (Random House, 2001), We Want Some Too (Penguin, 2000), Lurvy (Coach House, 1999), and Smell It (Coach House, 1998), the co-author (with Darren-Wershler-Henry) of The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac (Viking, 2002), the editor of the anthology Concrete Forest (M. & S., 1998), and the co-founder and fiction editor of Broken Pencil. He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Erisa Niru lives in Mississauga. She is a writer, artist, and costume creator. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Peter Norman lives in Halifax. His first book of poetry, At the Gates of the Theme Park, was published recently by Mansfield. Douglas & McIntyre will publish his debut novel, Emberton, in 2011. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Kathleen Olmstead lives in Sussex-Ulster. She has made films. She has written books that can (hopefully) be found in the Young Adult section of your local bookstore. She has contributed to the magazine since 1999. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Ian Phillips lives in Beaconsfield. He collects junk and runs Pas de Chance press. His hand-bound editions of poetry, short stories, and artwork are on the shelves of book collectors worldwide and have appeared in galleries from Moscow to San Francisco. His book Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World was published in 2002 by Princeton Architectural. He was the magazine’s in-house illustrator from 1998 to 2008, and still contributes regularly. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
Marguerite Pigeon lives in Vancouver. Her work has appeared in Grain, Room of One’s Own, and Dandelion. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and is currently writing her first novel. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Jay Pinkerton lives in New York. He is the managing editor of Cracked and the former managing editor of National Lampoon. Born “Illegitimate Pinkerton” in Kingston, Ontario, at the age of zero, his name was later changed for reasons of coherency. His first published short story appeared in the Christmas, 2002, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Emily Pohl-Weary lives in Dovercourt Village. Her book about her grandmother, Better To Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Between the Lines, 2002), won the 2003 Hugo Award for non-fiction. She is the author of the poetry collection Iron-on Constellations (Tightrope, 2005), the novel A Girl Like Sugar (McGilligan, 2004), and the editor of the anthology Girls Who Bite Back (Sumach, 2004). She is also the editor and co-founder of Kiss Machine. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
K. I. Press lives in Parkdale. Her latest collection of poetry, Spine, was released in 2004 by Gaspereau. She is also the author of Pale Red Footprints (Pedlar, 2001). (Last updated Christmas, 2004.)
Keith Prestwich lives in Danforth Village. His first published short story appeared in the summer, 2005, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2005.)
Rachel Pulfer lives in Boston. She is a writer and editor with occasional literary aspirations. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Andrew Pyper lives in Trinity Bellwoods. He is the author of The Trade Mission (HarperFlamingo, 2002), as well as Lost Girls (HarperCollins, 1999), a novel selected as a notable book of the year by the Globe and Mail and the New York Times, and Kiss Me (Porcupine’s Quill, 1996), a collection of short stories. His latest novel is The Killing Circle (Doubleday, 2008). (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Shannon Quinn lives south of Cabbagetown. Her work has appeared in This Magazine. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s radio and television program, and also holds a degree in theatre from the University of Alberta. (Last updated Christmas, 2003.)
Angela Rawlings lives in Kensington Market. She is the author of Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists (Coach House, 2006). (Last updated, Halloween, 2008.)
Sandra Ridley lives in Ottawa. She was a Fringe reader at the 2006 Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, and received an honourable mention for the 2006 Diana Brebner Prize. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Stan Rogal lives in Bloorcourt Village. He is the author of nine books of poetry, two novels, and three short story collections. His latest book, Fabulous Freaks, was published in 2005 by Wolsak & Wynn. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Fiddlehead, Grain, Quarry, Prairie Fire, and Rampike. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Cecily Ross lives in Seaton Village. She is a senior editor with the Globe and Mail. (Last updated, summer, 2002.)
David Ross lives in the Church-Wellesley Village, Toronto. He works as a production editor for Penguin Canada. His fiction has appeared on the Web zine Joyland. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Stuart Ross lives in a housing co-op near Christie and Dupont streets. He is the author of numerous collections and chapbooks, most recently most recently the poetry collection Dead Cars in Managua (DC Books, 2008). Some of his poems were recently turned into songs for the CD An Orphan’s Song: Ben Walker Sings Stuart Ross. He has contributed to the magazine since 1998. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg lives in Caggabgetown. She is the editor and publisher of Thirteenth Tiger Press and has published poetry in a variety of literary journals, including Pottersfield Portfolio, Cormorant, and Lichen, and is currently working on her first book of poetry. Her first published short story appeared in the summer, 2002, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Salgood Sam lives in Montreal. His independently produced anthology, Revolver (Spilt Ink, 2004), garnered him a nomination for best emerging talent at the 2005 Doug Wright Awards. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Emily Schultz lives in Parkdale. She is the author of the poetry collection Songs for the Dancing Chicken, (ECW, 2007), the short-story collection Black Coffee Night (Insomniac, 2002), and the novel Joyland (ECW, 2006). Her next novel, Heaven is Small, is forthcoming from Anansi. She has contributed to the magazine since 2003. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Dianne Scott lives in Riverdale, with her husband and two young children. Her work has appeared in the Windsor Review, the New Quarterly, and Other Voices, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. She has completed a manuscript of short stories and is working on a book of survival tips for new mothers. (Last updated Christmas, 2005.)
Douglas G. Scott lives in Seaton Village. He works at a Toronto design firm. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario. He is a cartoonist and book designer. He also writes and draws the comic book Palookaville. His upcoming work includes George Sprott (1894–1975), an expanded version of his recent New York Times strip, and The Collected Doug Wright. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Caitlin Smith lives in Sussex-Ulster. She is a marketing manager at a book publishing company. (Last updated Christmas, 1997.)
Phillip Smith lives in Cabbagetown. He is the simplifier of technology at Community Bandwidth, a technology practice that works in the not-for-profit, voluntary, and cultural sectors. He was the magazine’s Web manager from 2000 to 2007, and also held the position of photo editor from 1999 to 2005. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Fiona Smyth lives in Dufferin Grove. She has been rawking the brush since 1986, most notably in Exclaim!, Vice, Ben is Dead, Snipehunt, Bust, and the collection Twisted Sisters 2 (Kitchen Sink, 1995). Cheez 100, a collection of her Exclaim! comic strip, Cheez, was published by Pedlar in 2001. Most recently, her work appeared in Hell Passport: Volume 2 (Perro Verlag, 2006). (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Eric Squair lives in Huron-Sussex. He works in communications and Web design for a multinational environmental organization.
(Last updated summer, 2007.)John Stiles is a writer and filmmaker living in London. He is the author of Scouts are Cancelled (Insomniac, 2002) and The Insolent Boy (Insomniac, 2001). His work has appeared in Pagitica, the Literary Review of Canada, Lichen, Storyteller, the Web zine Another Toronto Quarterly, and the anthology The IV Lounge Reader (Insomniac, 2001). (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Meaghan Strimas lives in Little Italy. She is the author of the poetry collection Junkman’s Daughter (Exile, 2004) and is working on her second collection. (Last updated summer, 2005.)
Kate Sutherland used to live in the Annex, but bought a house somewhere else. She is the author of the short story collections All in Together Girls (Thistledown, 2007) and Summer Reading (Thistledown, 1995) and has appeared in the New Quarterly, Queen Street Quarterly, Write, and the anthology The IV Lounge Reader (Insomniac, 2001). She is currently working on a second collection. (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Susan Swan lives in Sussex-Ulster. She is the author of Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With (Somerville, 1996) and The Wives of Bath (Knopf, 1993), which was adapted into the 2001 film Lost and Delirious. (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Matthew Tierney lives in St. James. He is the author of the poetry collection Full Speed through the Morning Dark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2004). (Last updated summer, 2007.)
Conan Tobias lives in the Annex. He is the founder, editor-in-chief, publisher, art director, and many other things of Taddle Creek. He is also the managing editor of another popular and respected magazine. His work has twice been nominated for a National Magazine Award, once for the other magazine and once for the “words” portion of the Taddle Creek article “Night of the Sewist.” He contributed a chapter to the essay collection uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (Coach House, 2005), which was nominated for the Toronto Book Award. He is a former staff member of the Acta Victoriana literary journal, the oldest magazine still publishing in Canada. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Tony Tobias lives in Summerhill, Toronto. He is a producer and writer with a strong interest in the dynamics of urban life and in what makes a healthy city. He co-produced the award-winning documentary Cities Fit to Live In: Toronto—Struggle for Neighbourhood. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Jason Turner lives in North Vancouver. He has drawn two volumes of True Loves (New Reliable, 2006 and 2009), co-written with his wife, Manien Bothma. He also writes a column for Broken Pencil. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
R. M. Vaughan lives in Rua Açores. His latest book is Troubled (Coach House, 2008). He has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Maurice Vellekoop lives on Ward’s Island. He has illustrated for major book publishers, magazines, and advertising in North America, Europe, and Asia for more than twenty years. His books include Vellevision (Drawn & Quarterly, 1997), Maurice Vellekoop’s ABC Book (Gates of Heck, 1998), A Nut at the Opera (Drawn & Quarterly, 2006), and Pin-ups (Green Candy, 2008). (Last updated Christmas 2009.)
Paul Vermeersch lives in High Park. He is the author of Between the Walls (M. & S., 2005), The Fat Kid (ECW, 2002), and Burn (ECW, 2000), and the editor of 4 A.M. Books, Insomniac’s poetry imprint. In 2003, he retired as the host of the IV Lounge Reading Series, which he founded in 1998. He appeared on the first Taddle Creek Disc of Laser-light Reflected Sound, and has contributed to the magazine since 1999. (Last updated Christmas, 2007.)
Victoria Ward is a painter and writer living in Haliburton County, Ontario. Her first published work appeared in the Christmas, 2002, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 2002.)
Adrienne Weiss lives in Parkdale. She is the author of the poetry collection Awful Gestures (Insomniac, 2001), and is currently pursuing an M.A. in English at York University. She has contributed to the magazine since 2003. (Last updated summer, 2008.)
Darren Wershler-Henry lives in Seaton Village. He is a writer, critic, editor, and assistant professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of The Iron Whim (M. & S., 2005) and, with Bill Kennedy, Apostrophe (ECW, 2006). (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Jessica Westhead lives in the Danforth area. Her work has appeared in This, Geist, Kiss Machine, Matrix, the Antigonish Review, and the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice (Wingate, 2005). Her chapbook Those Girls was published by Greenboathouse in 2006. (Last updated summer, 2006.)
Kathleen Whelan lives in the Church-Wellesley Village. Her fiction has appeared in subTerrain, Blood and Aphorisms, Other Voices, Broken Pencil, and Front & Centre, as well as in publications in California, Ireland, and New Zealand. (Last updated Christmas, 2005.)
Zoe Whittall lives in Rua Açores. She is the author of Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant, 2007). Her new book of poems, Precordial Thump, is forthcoming from Exile. (Last updated Halloween, 2008.)
Alana Wilcox lives in Seaton Village. She is the editor of Coach House Books. Her first novel, A Grammar of Endings, was released in 2000 by Mercury. (Last updated Christmas, 2006.)
Alexandra Wilder lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the managing director of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Interim, Carousel, and the Texas Review. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Judith Williams lives in the Annex. Her first published story appeared in the Christmas, 1998, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 1998.)
Julie Wilson lives in the Danforth area. She is currently at work on a book of short stories about growing up in a queer little world as a queer little girl. Her first published short story appeared in the summer, 2003, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2004.)
Steve Wilson lives in Trinity Bellwoods. Born in the dark years (the early seventies), he has been gainfully employed for some time in various design-related positions, including, but not limited to, photographer, comic artist, interior designer, children’s-book illustrator, TV-channel designer, painter, graphic designer, animation director, editorial illustrator, and character designer. Steve also likes Belgium. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Christina Winchur lives in Bloordale Village. She is currently working on her first novel. (Last updated summer, 2002.)
Elana Wolff lives in Thornhill, Ontario. Her third collection of poetry, You Speak to Me in Trees (Guernica, 2006), won the 2008 F. G. Bressani Prize for Poetry. Her book of short essays about poems by Toronto-based poets, Implicate Me, is forthcoming this summer from Guernica. She has contributed to the magazine since 2000. (Last updated summer, 2010.)
Zach Worton lives in Seaton Village. His debut graphic novel, The Klondike, will be published in 2009 by Drawn & Quarterly. He is also writing a graphic novel for kids called Barbarian for Hire, with the illustrator John Martz. (Last updated summer, 2009.)
Mason Wright lives in Parkdale. Despite his lack of skills in producing such works, he has a great appreciation for short fiction and poetry. He is a Web publishing and print journalism jack of all trades. (Last updated, summer 2007.)
Alan Young lives in the Annex. He is a film-school dropout who went on to become a civil-rights lawyer and a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has written full-length works for the theatre. His first published short story appeared in the Christmas, 1999, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated Christmas, 1999.)
Rajo Zakic lives in Cabbagetown. Recently, he moved his sofa to the other side of the room, which opened up all this space. He works as an illustrator, filmmaker, and furniture salesman. Salesperson, rather. His first published work, “Do You Have Any Bee Stories?,” appeared in the summer, 2003, issue of Taddle Creek. (Last updated summer, 2003.)
Mary-Lou Zeitoun lives in Dufferin Grove. Her first novel, 13, was published in 2002 by Porcupine’s Quill. Her first published short story appeared in the summer, 2001, issue of Taddle Creek. She has contributed to the magazine since 2001. (Last updated Christmas, 2004.)
Lindsay Zier-Vogel lives in Palmerston. She is a writer, choreographer, and arts educator, and recently completed a novel. She is also the founding editor of Puddle Press, an independent book-arts press. (Last updated Christmas, 2009.)
