Ryeberg Curators

Caroline Adderson
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Caroline Adderson is the author of three novels — "A History of Forgetting," "Sitting Practice," and "The Sky Is Falling" — and two collections of short stories: "Bad Imaginings" and "Pleased To Meet You." Her work has received numerous prize nominations including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize. She was also the recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement. For more about Caroline, go here.Go to curator page
Mary Albino
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Mary Albino lives in Toronto and writes on economics-related subjects. She tends to ask “how” questions. For example: How come people live so differently from how they want to live? Or: How does a person become less poor, not in principle, but actually? She’d also like to know: Under what circumstances do people give their money away? Ryeberg thinks it's worth mentioning that Mary occasionally plays the violin.Go to curator page
Bert Archer
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Bert Archer is a Canadian author, journalist, travel writer, essayist and critic. He is the author of "The End of Gay" (and the death of heterosexuality). More Bert Archer here.Go to curator page
Maiko Bae Yamamoto
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Maiko Yamamoto: Since 2003, Maiko Bae Yamamoto has been an Artistic Director of the Vancouver-based performance company Theatre Replacement, a company she formed with fellow artist James Long. Past works include "Dress me up in your love" (2011), "WeeTube" (2009), "Train" (2008), "Yu-Fo" (2007), "BIOBOXES" (2007), "Sexual Practices of the Japanese" (2006), and "The Empty Orchestra," a love story powered by karaoke (2005). Theatre Replacement continues to present work both nationally and internationally. Maiko holds a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.Go to curator page
Liane Balaban
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Liane Balaban is an award-winning actor/performer based in Montreal. Feature credits include "Finding Joy," "Abroad," "Coach," "The Trotsky," "Last Chance Harvey," and Gary Burns' "The Future is Now" opposite Paul Ahmarani. She also co-starred with Vincent D'Onofrio in the short film "The New Tenants," winner of an Academy Award.Go to curator page
Ian Balfour
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Ian Balfour writes mainly about literature and aesthetic theory but moonlights on various topics in popular and unpopular culture (Pee Wee Herman, Kiarostami, The Silver Jews). Author of books on Romantic Prophecy and Northrop Frye, he has co-edited with Atom Egoyan "Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film" and with Eduardo Cadava "And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights." He teaches at York University and is finishing an interminable book on the sublime.Go to curator page
David Balzer
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David Balzer is the author of "Contrivances: Short Stories" (ECW). His writing on visual art, film, and theatre has appeared in Toronto Life, Canadian Notes and Queries, Cinema Scope, Maisonneuve, The Walrus, and Toronto's EYE WEEKLY. More David Balzer here.Go to curator page
Jill Barber
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Jill Barber is a Juno-nominated Canadian chanteuse who has captured the hearts of audiences across Canada, Europe, and Australia. Her most recent album, "Mischievous Moon," debuted at #1 on the iTunes sales chart. In 2010, she published her first children's book, "Baby's Lullaby." Jill was born and raised in Port Credit, ON, and came of age musically while living in Halifax, NS, before following her wild heart to the Pacific Coast. She now lives in Vancouver with her husband, CBC Radio broadcaster and author, Grant Lawrence. For more Jill Barber, go here.Go to curator page
Rob Benvie
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Rob Benvie is the author of "Safety of War" and "Maintenance," both from Coach House Books. He has led or participated in many musical endeavours, including Thrush Hermit, The Dears, Camouflage Nights, Tigre Benvie, and more: Listen to Stuplimity, or The Nova Scotia Book of the Dead here. Born and raised in Halifax, Rob Benvie currently hangs his hat in Montreal.Go to curator page
Kathryn Borel
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Kathryn Borel was born in 1979 in Toronto, the daughter of a hotelier. After several years, she became the older sister to Nico, who was named after the family cat. She spent her early years living in hotels in Paris, Bermuda, Dallas and New Jersey, finally settling in Quebec City. In 2002 she moved to Toronto to follow a man. The relationship ended. She lived in Toronto where she worked at the CBC for the national arts and culture program, Q. Now she lives in L.A. She has written food and wine reviews for radio and print. Her journalism includes a column which ran in the National Post under the title Indignities. Her first book, “Corked” was a finalist for the 2010 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by The National Post, Quill & Quire and Eye Weekly.Go to curator page
Lauren Bride
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Lauren Bride is a writer and artist living in Toronto.Go to curator page
Catherine Bush
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Catherine Bush used to write about dance. Then she switched to novels. She is the author of “Minus Time” (1993), about the family of a female Canadian astronaut, “The Rules of Engagement” (2000), in which a contemporary woman contends with the aftermath of a duel fought over her, and “Claire’s Head” (2004), which combines mystery and neurology in the story of two sisters with migraines. Her novels have been published internationally and short-listed for literary awards. Her nonfiction has been published in a variety of publications including The Globe & Mail and the New York Times Magazine. She has lived in New York, Montreal and Provincetown, Massachusetts, but has spent most of her life in Toronto, where she currently resides. She is the director of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph and at work on a new novel. For more Catherine Bush, click here.Go to curator page
Jowita Bydlowska
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Jowita Bydlowska was born in Warsaw, as in Poland. She moved to Canada as a teenager. That hurt. She got over it eventually and now she likes it in Canada. She lives in Toronto with her little family in a little house. She's the author of "Drunk Mom," a memoir, published by Doubleday Canada and HarperCollins Australia. She’s written a couple novels that she hopes will also be published at some future date. For fun she takes weird pictures, usually of herself, because she and herself are on the same page most of the time so it's just easier that way. More from Jowita Bydlowska here.Go to curator page
Matt Cahill
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Matt Cahill is a writer, photographer, and psychotherapist. He lives in Toronto.Go to curator page
Mary Ellen Carroll
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Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist living and working in Houston, Texas and New York City. She is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Pollack/Krasner Award. She was awarded a fellowship from the Pennies from Heaven Fund, for her contribution to New York City as a visual artist for work that is advanced, experimental, and socially visionary. Carroll teaches architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where in 2009 she realized Project Prototype 180, a work of art that aimed to make architecture performative by inverting an acre of land and the domestic structure that is on it 180 degrees. Her work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the ICA, London; Museum fur Volkerkunde, Munich; the ICA, Philadelphia; MOMUK, Vienna; and the Renaissance Society, Chicago. It also resides in numerous public and private collections. "Mary Ellen Carroll" is published by Steidl/Mack. For more MEC, go here.Go to curator page
Kyl Chhatwal
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Kyl Chhatwal is a short story writer, a sometimes actor, and a sometimes editorialist with the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. A production of his first play, "I'll Be Here," appeared in Toronto in 2009. Kyl lives in Toronto.Go to curator page
Kevin Chong
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Kevin Chong is the author of four books: most recently, a novel entitled "Beauty Plus Pity" and a memoir named "My Year of the Racehorse." He's an editor at Joyland and teaches creative writing at UBC.Go to curator page
Joe Cobden
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Joe Cobden is an award-winning actor/performer from Montreal, currently living in Toronto. He was the first anglophone to receive a "Les Masques" award (For Revelation of the Year). He spent more than two years working on "The Eco Show" (with theatre creator Daniel Brooks of Necessary Angel) and "Untitled Faction Project" (with Ame Henderson of Public Recordings). Film credits include "Blindness" (dir. Fernando Mereilles), "I'm Not There" (dir. Todd Haynes), and "Le Piege Americain" (dir. Charles Biname) and he has the lead role in the feature film "Peepers," from Automatic Vaudeville. Joe's recent film directing credits inlcude music videos for Miriam Makeba ("Help") and Fats Waller ("Sigh"). "Sigh" has played at over 20 film festivals worldwide and won the People's Choice award at the Cabbagetown Film Festival. More from Joe Cobden here.Go to curator page
Lynn Crosbie
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Lynn Crosbie is the author of a book length poem entitled “Liar” and is the coolest poet in Canada. She has published a novel with House of Anansi entitled "Life Is About Losing Everything." Lynn is an English Literature Ph.D. She has lectured on and written about visual art at the AGO, the Power Plant, and OCAD University where she taught for six years. She is an award-winning journalist with a regular column in the Globe and Mail called "Pop Rocks." She is also an ardent admirer, and fan of Michael Jackson.Go to curator page
Jon Davies
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Jon is a writer and curator based in Toronto. His writing has appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art, GLQ, Cinema Scope, and a number of exhibition catalogues and critical anthologies. In 2009 Arsenal Pulp Press published his book on Paul Morrissey's 1970 film "Trash." He has curated numerous film/video screenings and exhibitions including the traveling retrospective People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell for the Oakville Galleries and Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (with Helena Reckitt). He is currently working at the Oakville Galleries. Jon Davies lives with Sholem Krishtalka in Toronto. For more Jon Davies, click here.Go to curator page
Charles Demers
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Charles Demers is a comedian and author. In addition to having performed at the Just For Laughs Festival and as a regular guest on CBC's "The Debaters" and "This is That," he is the author of the books "The Prescription Errors" and "Vancouver Special" -- shortlisted for the Hubert Evans BC Bookprize for Non-Fiction. For more Charles Demers, go here.Go to curator page
Claudia Dey
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Claudia Dey is a novelist, playwright and columnist. She writes the weekly ‘Group Therapy’ column for the Globe and Mail, and during its brief but illustrious life, Claudia also wrote the sex column for Toro magazine under the pseudonym Bebe O’Shea. Her plays have been translated into French and German and produced internationally. They include Beaver, Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. Her debut novel, “Stunt,” has been praised by – among others – the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and Time Out Chicago, which called it ‘deeply weird and totally beautiful.’ The Toronto Star, in its description of Dey’s writing, said ‘It’s as if poet Anne Carson and satirist Mordecai Richler accidentally collided at a drunken PEN fundraiser to produce a mischievous, magical and observant girl-child.’Go to curator page
Kelly Dignan
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Kelly Dignan's writing has appeared in Queen Street Quarterly, Grain, and The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.Go to curator page
Sean Dixon
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Sean Dixon is a novelist, playwright, and actor. His novels include "The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn" and "The Girls Who Saw Everything" ("The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal" in the U.S. and the U.K.) — named one of the Best Books of 2007 by Quill & Quire. His plays have been produced in Canada, the U.S., Australia and the U.K., and three have been collected in "AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM." He occasionally plays banjo with the Toronto glam rock band tomboyfriend. For more Sean Dixon, go here.Go to curator page

Christopher Doda
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Christopher Doda is a poet, editor, and critic living in Toronto. He is the author of two collections of poetry: “Among Ruins” and “Aesthetics Lesson,” both from Mansfield Press.Go to curator page
Gerry Feehily
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Gerry Feehily is English site editor at Presseurop.eu, an online news portal operating in ten languages. He also looks after the Ireland desk at Parisian weekly Courrier International. Based in Paris since the 1990s, his articles on literature and politics have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman and the Irish Examiner. "Fever," his first novel, was published in 2008.Go to curator page
Jon Paul Fiorentino
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Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His first novel is "Stripmalling" (ECW, 2009). His most recent book of poetry is "The Theory of the Loser Class" (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book "Hello Serotonin" (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book "Asthmatica" (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies "Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour" (DC Books, 2003) and "Post-Prairie" - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Editor of Matrix magazine.Go to curator page
Christine Fischer Guy
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Christine Fischer Guy’s fiction has appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire, and Grimm and has been nominated for the Journey Prize. An excerpt from her new novel "Moose" is forthcoming in Descant. She regularly reviews fiction for The Globe and Mail and has conducted podcast interviews for Bookninja.com. She has lived and worked in London, England and now lives in Toronto. For more Christine Fischer Guy go here.Go to curator page
Elyse Friedman
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Elyse Friedman is the author of “Long Story Short, a Novella & Stories” (Anansi), and two novels, “Then Again” (Random House Canada) and “Waking Beauty” (Crown US). She's also written a poetry collection, “Know Your Monkey” (ECW). For more Elyse Friedman, go here.Go to curator page
Mary Gaitskill
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Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels "Veronica" and "Two Girls, Fat and Thin." She has also written three books of stories, "Bad Behavior," "Because They Wanted To," and "Don't Cry." More Mary Gaitskill here.Go to curator page
Steven Galloway
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Steven Galloway is the author of three novels, most recently "The Cellist of Sarajevo." His work has been translated into over 30 languages. He is a professor in UBC's Creative Writing Department and lives in New Westminster, Canada. His next novel, "The Confabulist," will be published in 2013.Go to curator page
Chris Gehman
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Chris Gehman is an independent filmmaker, media arts programmer and critic. His short films have screened at Canadian and international festivals and cinematheques; they include the award-winning “Refraction Series” (2008), "Contrafacta" (2000, co-directed with Roberto Ariganello) and "First Dispatch from Atlantis" (1993). Chris has programmed screenings for organizations such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Image Forum (Tokyo), the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago) and Pleasure Dome, and worked as a programmer and editor at Cinematheque Ontario from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Artistic Director of the Images Festival, and in 2006 he co-programmed the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival. His critical writings have appeared in periodicals such as Millenium Film Journal, Cinema Scope, Broken Pencil and Prefix Photo, and he recently co-edited an anthology of writings on artists' animation ("The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema," YYZ Books, 2005).Go to curator page
John Goldbach
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John Goldbach’s the author of “Selected Blackouts," a collection of short stories. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.Go to curator page
David Heti
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David Heti is a still young man who carries forth in his hometown of Toronto. Quietly waiting out his remaining days in the hopes of something better, he is never sadder than after breakfast. When not performing stand-up comedy, he may often find himself reassessing purchases of bread or being comforted by others. More David Heti here. But several months shy of his law degrees, he may soon be able to pay for his law degrees. He understands that things can change.Go to curator page
Sheila Heti
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Sheila Heti is the author of "The Middle Stories," "Ticknor," and "How Should A Person Be?" — chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2012. She's also published an illustrated book for children, "We Need a Horse," featuring art by Clare Rojas, and a book of "conversational philosophy" called "The Chairs Are Where the People Go," with Misha Glouberman. She works as Interviews Editor at The Believer and has contributed many interviews with writers and artists to the magazine. She is also the creator of the Trampoline Hall lecture series and The Metaphysical Poll, which collected the sleeping dreams people were having of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries (It was clear from the dreams that Obama would win). More Sheila Heti here.Go to curator page
Ernest Hilbert
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Ernest Hilbert is a rare book dealer and host of the blog, E-Verse Radio. He has also served as editor of both the Contemporary Poetry Review and Random House’s magazine Bold Type. Hilbert’s work has been included in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009), and he has written several librettos in collaboration with composer Daniel Felsenfeld. He is the author of "Sixty Sonnets" — a collection containing memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair, violent discord, public outrage, and private nightmares.Go to curator page
Mike Hoolboom
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Mike Hoolboom is a Canadian artist working in film and video. He is the author of “Plague Years” (1998), “Fringe Film in Canada” (2000) and “Practical Dreamers” (2008) and a novel, “The Steve Machine” (2008). He has co-edited books on media artists Philip Hoffman (2000) and Frank Cole (2009), and co-authored a book on David Rimmer (2009). He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective, and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and the experimental film co-ordinator at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He has won more than thirty international prizes, two lifetime achievement awards and enjoyed nine retrospectives of his work. More Mike Hoolboom here.Go to curator page
Nathalie Jordi
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Nathalie Jordi provides the People's Pops in Brooklyn with her high-school prom date and his roommate. Read all about it here. Nathalie has also been known to eat with strangers. She's written for the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appetit, and the New York Times. Nathalie Jordi shares her time with New York and New Orleans; her movements can be tracked here.Go to curator page
Lisan Jutras
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Lisan Jutras was the author of the short-lived “Microcelebrities” column about memes and viral videos that appeared in The Globe and Mail. Before that, she was their pets columnist, which embarrasses her a little. She is currently deputy books editor there. Her work hasn’t appeared in as many places as she’d like, mostly because she’s been too chicken-shit to pitch stuff. She doesn’t need your pity, though! Things are looking up.Go to curator page
Joanna Kavenna
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Joanna Kavenna is the author of three novels, "Come To The Edge," "The Birth of Love," and “Inglorious,” winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for New Writers. Her first book, “The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule” was an account of a poetic tour through northern lands. Kavenna writes for the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune,Spectator Magazine and the Telegraph. More Joanna Kavenna here.Go to curator page
Markus Kirschner
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Markus Kirschner is a filmmaker and production designer. Among his credits, he wrote and directed the short film "Communion" and production designed the 2012 documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God," as well as Sundance 2010 selection, "3 Backyards," starring Edie Falco, Elias Koteas and Embeth Davidtz. He holds a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University, New York.Go to curator page
Sholem Krishtalka
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Sholem is a painter and a writer. His writing has appeared in Canadian Art Magazine, Bookforum Online, C Magazine, CBC Arts Online (among others) and in various artist's catalogues. His artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues around Toronto and New York. He is featured in the survey of Canadian painting "Carte Blanche 2: Painting," published by the Magenta Foundation. Sholem lives with Jon Davies in Toronto. For more Sholem Krishtalka, click here.Go to curator page
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the author of the novels "Perfecting" and "The Nettle Spinner," as well as, the short fiction collection "Way Up." She teaches creative writing through The University of Toronto and online through The New York Times Knowledge Network. For more Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, go here. Photo by Ken Woroner.Go to curator page
Amy Langstaff
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Amy Langstaff is a writer and consultant based in Toronto. She holds a literature degree and a diploma in cabinetmaking — the latter irrelevant to her current work but attesting to a meticulous nature. For more Amy Langstaff, click here.Go to curator page
Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch’s widely acclaimed work is often compared with that of Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. His first dramatic short, “Arrowhead,” received the 1994 Genie Award. In 1996, he made “Project Grizzly," one of Canada’s most acclaimed documentaries (referenced on The Simpsons!). These were followed by “The Herd” and “A Whale Of A Tale.” His 2001 “Cyberman” was featured at over 50 international film festivals, and listed as a top 10 feature film of the year by Film Comment. More Peter Lynch here.Go to curator page
Pasha Malla
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Pasha Malla is the author of "The Withdrawal Method" (stories) and "All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts" (poems, sort of) and "People Park" (a novel).Go to curator page
David Marchese
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David Marchese is a Toronto-born writer currently living in Brooklyn. You can find him online here, among other places.Go to curator page
Nyla Matuk
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Nyla Matuk is the author of "Sumptuary Laws." Her poetry has also appeared in several literary journals in Canada, online at the Incongruous Quarterly and in the Archive of Poets at Greenboathouse Books. Nyla has published short fiction and essays in various literary journals including Event, Room of One's Own, Descant and Alphabet City's "Food and Trash" issues. She has also contributed journalism on architecture and literary topics as a freelancer to the Globe and Mail and numerous magazines. For more Nyla Matuk, go here.Go to curator page

Alexandra Molotkow
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Alexandra Molotkow is a senior editor at Hazlitt Magazine and was previously an associate editor at The Walrus. Her writing has appeared in Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, the New York Times Magazine, and she wrote a weekly column for the Toronto Standard.Go to curator page
Nick Mount
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Nick Mount is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Canadian literature and contemporary culture. He's also the fiction editor for the Walrus. Still, he wishes he was half as awesome as Techno Viking.Go to curator page
Stephen Osborne
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Stephen Osborne is the publisher of Geist Magazine, which he founded in 1990. He is also co-founder of the literary publishing house, Arsenal Pulp Press. He has published a collection of essays, "Ice & Fire: Dispatches From The New World: 1988-98," and is the recipient of the CBC Literary Award, the Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing, the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award, and the Western Magazine Award for Lifetime Achievement. For more Stephen Osborne, go here.Go to curator page
Anton Piatigorsky
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Anton Piatigorsky's plays include “The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik,” “Mysterium Tremendum,” “The Offering,” and “Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.” He is the recipient of a Dora Mavor Moore award for best new play, and the 2005 Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Protégé Award for playwrighting. His most recent play, “Eternal Hydra,” was published by Coach House Books.Go to curator page
Marco Pitzalis
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Marco Pitzalis was born in Cagliari in late November, 1963. The entire world, at that moment, was thinking of President Kennedy’s death, so Pitzalis’ birth passed unnoticed. As the decades passed, he noticed that all high points in his life continued to be obscured by their coincidence with great historical events. Nonetheless, he quietly made his way. As an undergrad in Cagliari, Italy, Pitzalis achieved excellent grades in Philosophy; he went on to a PhD in Sociology at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. One day, in the faculty washroom, Pitzalis encountered the great Philosophe Derrida, who proceeded to use the toilet after him. Pitzalis believed this event to be charged with deep, transformative symbolism. Then in the year 2000, as the spray of the burst stock market bubble was still settling, he sold his shares—a minute too late, and he understood that at last he had consummated a divorce between himself and history. History no longer collides with his personal triumphs. Today Pitzalis teaches sociology at the glorious University of Cagliari in Sardinia. His presence is duly noticed by a handful of devoted students.Go to curator page
Christine Pountney
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Christine Pountney was born in Vancouver in 1971 and grew up in Montreal, did some more growing up in London (UK), and continues to grow up in Toronto and rural Newfoundland. She has a beautiful son who is growing up too. His mother is the author of three novels, “Last Chance Texaco,” “The Best Way You Know How,” both published by Faber and Faber, and "Sweet Jesus," published by McLelland.Go to curator page
Damian Rogers
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Damian Rogers is a poet, performer, and journalist. Originally from suburban Detroit, she has lived in various cities, including London, Chicago, New York, and Toronto. Her poems have appeared in Brick Magazine, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, MoonLit, This Magazine, and Salt Hill. Her first collection, “Paper Radio,” is published by ECW Press.Go to curator page
Amy Rutherford
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Amy Rutherford is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada and the Stratford Conservatory. Recent credits include Hannah Moscovitch’s "The Children’s Republic" (Tarragon Theatre,) Michael Ondaatje’s "Divisadero" (Necessary Angel) and Tadeusz Slobodzianek's "Our Class" (Studio 180). Amy's been nominated for several Dora Mavor Moore Awards and in 2011 was named one of Toronto's ten best theatre artists by NOW Magazine.Go to curator page
Erik Rutherford
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Erik Rutherford is the creator and editor of Ryeberg, and a sometimes contributor. He has also written for other publications including newspapers like The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. He used to work in radio while living in Paris (1997-2005), and his radio shows were broadcast on several French stations, including Radio France Internationale. He now lives in Toronto.Go to curator page
Mitu Sengupta
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Mitu Sengupta is an Associate Professor of Politics at Ryerson University, Toronto. She has published widely in academic journals, and her political commentaries and analyses have appeared in CounterPunch, Monthly Review MRZine, AlterNet, Frontline (India), the Hindustan Times (India), The Toronto Star, Dissent Magazine, and This Magazine.Go to curator page
Alexandra Shimo
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Alexandra Shimo studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, and then did a Master’s on scholarship at The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York. She's the author of “The Environment Equation,” published in the US, UK, Canada and translated into four different languages. She loves cooking, eating, biking and exploring new cities, and has lived in a number of places, including London, Paris, New York, Gdansk, Vancouver, and Montreal. She currently lives in Toronto, where she freelances for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Independent, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and Berlin-based Kulturaustausche.Go to curator page
Russell Smith
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Russell Smith's novels include "Girl Crazy," published by HarperCollins Canada, and “Muriella Pent” — named best fiction pick of its year by Amazon.ca, and nominated for the Rogers Fiction Prize and the Impac Dublin Prize. He lives in Toronto. Author photo by Jowita Bydlowska.Go to curator page
Adam Sol
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Adam Sol is a poet, papa, professor, point guard, and occasional pundit. His most recent book is “Jeremiah, Ohio,” a novel in poems. He has been known to cover Steve Earle songs, with mixed success. Photo by Barbara Stoneham.Go to curator page
Hunter Stephenson
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Hunter Stephenson is a freelance journalist, editor, and consultant. He is currently a writer and associate editor at Slashfilm, named Best Blog of 2009 by TIME magazine, where he conducts in-depth interviews with filmmakers including Jody Hill and Rob Zombie, and with actors and performers including Martin Starr, Danny McBride, Paul Scheer, Neil Hamburger, and Andrew W.K. An alum of the School of Communication at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, he served as head editor of a “high-and-low” arts section at The Miami Hurricane for three years, noted by director Wim Wenders as being the “most important college newspaper section nationwide.” He went on to found Miami’s first youth-culture publication, ignore Magazine. His work has been featured in New Times, SPIN, Street Carnage, and Wooooo. He currently resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, forever known for its Grunge-era reputation as "the next Seattle.”Go to curator page
Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews is the author of five novels. These include "A Complicated Kindness," "The Flying Troutmans" and "Irma Voth." She has also published a work of non-fiction — "Swing Low: A Life" — about her father's struggle with manic depression and suicide. Photo: Carol LoewenGo to curator page
Micah Toub
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Micah Toub is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. His memoir, Growing Up Jung: Coming-of-age as the Son of Two Shrinks, is published by W.W. Norton and Doubleday Canada. A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he was also a longtime relationship columnist for The Globe and Mail and his writing has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Family, Psychology Today, and Maisonneuve. He has worked as an editor at The Globe and Mail and Toro Magazine. For more Micah Toub, go here.Go to curator page
Peter Trachtenberg
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Peter Trachtenberg is the author of "Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons," "Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh"(Crown, 1997) and "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning" (Little, Brown 2008), a book that combines reportage, memoir, and moral philosophy to explore suffering and its narratives. It won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. More Peter Trachtenberg here.Go to curator page
Masha Tupitsyn
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Masha Tupitsyn is the author of "LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film"(ZerO Books, 2011), "Beauty Talk & Monsters," a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology "Life As We Show It: Writing on Film" (City Lights, 2009). Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies "Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century" (2008) and the "Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K" (2010). For more Masha Tupitsyn, go "here.Go to curator page
Michael Turner
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Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books include "Hard Core Logo," "The Pornographer’s Poem," "Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs" and "8x10." A frequent collaborator, Turner has written scripts with Stan Douglas, poems with Geoffrey Farmer and a libretto with Andrea Young. Curatorial projects include “To show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969" (SFU Gallery) and "Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry" (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC). For more Michael Turner, go here.Go to curator page
Jeff Warren
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Jeff Warren is the author of "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness," a delirious neuro-romp through the sleeping, dreaming and waking mind. He is a freelance producer for CBC Radio’s "Ideas," a resident of Toronto’s Kensington Market, and an undisciplined reader of the mystic, the cryptic and the scientific. Jeff is currently working on a book about about meditation and the next frontier of human exploration. For more Jeff Warren, go here, and look for his writing in The New York Times, The New Scientist, Discover, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, The National Post and The Globe and Mail, among others.Go to curator page
Darren Wershler
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Darren Wershler (aka Darren Wershler-Henry) is the author or co-author of ten books, including, “The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting” (McClelland & Stewart, Cornell UP), and “apostrophe” (ECW), with Bill Kennedy, and most recently, "Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg" (University of Toronto Press). Darren is Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature, and is also part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program. More Darren Wershler here.Go to curator page
Alana Wilcox
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Alana Wilcox is the editorial director at Coach House Books. She is also the author of a novel, “A Grammar of Endings,” published by the Mercury Press.Go to curator page
Margaux Williamson
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Margaux Williamson is a painter from Toronto. She's made a movie made with her friends called “Teenager Hamlet.” Since 2010, she has been writing about movies and other things at Back To The World. For more Margaux Williamson, go here.Go to curator page
Peter Wolfgang
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Peter J Wolfgang has a job that pays his bills and an apartment to live in. He helped start the literary journal New York Tyrant and is still involved with that from time to time. Peter lives with his wife Heather in Brooklyn, New York.Go to curator page

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