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Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers
award. In July 2001 he read at Waterstones bookshop
to promote the anthology Titles Are Bitches. Christmas
2001 he debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower,
reading his poems. Each year he reads for Proudwords
lesbian and gay writing festival and partakes in
workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection
LOVEBITES, published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica
Mews, Edinburgh.
J. L. Bond resides on the prairies where she writes
poetry and paints in watercolour. She has published
in literary journals, church periodicals, and local
newspapers. She was selected as an apprentice in the
Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers Mentor Program
in 2008.
Federico Buchbinder, a photo enthusiast who lives
in Winnipeg, grabs his camera and goes out on short
road trips to capture unstaged moments. His main
focus are everyday, mundane objects; he tries to look
at them from different angles, breathing them into a
life of their own.
Ray Dirks is a Winnipeg artist and curator who
has worked in 30 countries. Solo exhibitions of his
internationally themed watercolours have taken place
in Canada, the US (including at Yale University where
he was a research fellow in 2002), Cuba, and Ethiopia.
In January 2009 he has a show in Jaipur, India. Dirks
has been curator at the Mennonite Heritage Centre
Gallery since 1998.
Dora Dueck is the author of two books, and many
articles, stories, poems, essay and reviews. She currently
lives in Winnipeg. Besides writing, Dueck also works as
an editor, and is currently the associate editor of the MB
Herald, a Mennonite magazine. She writes historical
and general fiction, as well as non-fiction.
K. Enns participated in the inaugural School of
Writing workshops at Canadian Mennonite University
in 2007. She has three children, the last one born in
March 2008. She lives in Ladner, BC, and is in the first
year of the Masters of Fine Arts program at Pacific
Lutheran University.
Bill (Willard) Fast was born in 1922 in Mountain
Lake, Minnesota. After graduation from Mountain
Lake High School he briefly attended Mankato State
Teachers College before enlisting in the US Navy in
1942. He served in the Pacific Fleet as a Pharmacist
Mate and was discharged in 1946. He received his BM
and MM degrees (Music Theory and Composition)
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from James Millikin University in 1949 and 1951.
Between 1949 and 1961 he worked as High School
Choral Director in several Michigan cities, and from
1962 until his retirement in 1982 he was Choral Director
and Instructor of Music Theory at Charles Steward
Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan.
John W. Goossen lives in Ladner, BC with his wife
and four of his five daughters. He spends some of his
time writing short stories and poetry and has had
pieces published in Rhubarb, Geez, and the Vancouver
Downtown Memory Project.
Jeff Gundy teaches at Bluffton University and spent
spring 2008 as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of
Salzburg. His most recent books are Spoken Among the
Trees (poems) and Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite
Writing.
Hedy Heppenstall lives in Winnipeg and works as a
nurse and a writer. Her work has been published in A/
Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing and The Prairie
Journal of Canadian Literature. She has been inspired
and mentored by several local writers of Mennonite
ancestry and recently attended the Canadian Mennonite
School of Writing. Her full name is Hedwig,
and since notice of publication in this journal, a few
of her friends have been calling her Hed-Wiebe. She
takes this as a compliment.
Jean Janzen lives in Fresno, California, where she
has taught at Fresno Pacific University. Her most recent
collection of poems is Paper House, Good Books,
2008. Born in Saskatchewan, she was moved at age
five to Minnesota and other points in the midwestern
United States. Most of her married life has been in
California where she raised four children with her
doctor husband, and eventually found language for
the wonder and mysteries of being human.
Paul Krahn lives in Neubergthal, MB. He teaches
High School English, blows the mouth organ, and
writes when he finds the time.
M. Travis Lane lives in Fredericton, N.B. and has
won numerous honours and prizes for her poetry,
among them the Pat Lowther, the Alden Nowlan, and
the Bliss Carman. Her most recent publications are
Touch Earth, 2006; The Crisp Day Closing on my Hand,
2007; and, forthcoming, The All-Nighter’s Radio.
Marcia Lee Laycock lives in central Alberta with
her husband, two golden retrievers, and a six-toed cat.
Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines
across Canada and the U.S., and been broadcast on