Olive Senior was born and brought up in Jamaica. Although now based in Toronto, much of her writings continue to
deal with Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.Her work in recording and disseminating the cultural heritage of Jamaica was honoured in 2003 with the
Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence and in 2004 by the
Gold Medal of the Institute of Jamaica. She is also the recipient of the
Centenary Medal and the Silver Medal of the Institute of Jamaica for contributions to literature.
Her latest book – Over the Roofs of
the World – was nominated for Canada’s 2005 Governor
General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She is also the winner of the
Commonwealth Writers Prize for her short story collection, Summer Lightning and the F.J. Bressani Literary Prize for the poetry collection Gardening
in the Tropics. Her other books include Talking
of Trees (poetry), Arrival of the
Snake-Woman and Discerner of Heart (fiction)
andnon-fiction works including Working Miracles: Women’s Lives in the
English-Speaking Caribbean, the A-Z
of Jamaican Heritage and the Encyclopaedia
of Jamaican Heritage. In addition to her literary work, Olive Senior has
been editor of two of the Caribbean’s leading Journals – Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies and Jamaica Journal, published by Institute of Jamaica Publications.She has been Writer in residence at the University of Alberta and the Banff International Writing
Studio; at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Trinidad; an Arts Council of England
Visiting International Writer, a Hawthornden Fellow,
and Dana Distinguished International Writer at St Lawrence University. She was
named the 2005 Humanities Scholar at UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados.She is on the faculty of The Humber School for Writers at Humber
College, Toronto, and has taught in the writing programmes at the University of
Toronto, St Lawrence University, Canton, New York, and Barnard College,
Columbia University, New York, as well as the Caribbean Writers Summer
Institute, University of Miami, and the Creative Writing Summer School at the
University of the West Indies, Barbados.
Anna Green is18 years old and lives in Chichester, South of England. She
has notpublished any work so far.
Toni Kan is a Nigerian award winning poet and essayist; widely
anthologised, his works have appeared in Salthill, Drumvoices Revue, sentinel poetry quarterly, Farafina online, ANA review etc. He is at work on a
new novel and collection of poem. He lives in Lagos.
SuchoonMo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant
and a retired academic living in the semi-arid part of Colorado, USA. His poems and essays
appeared both nationally and internationally in such publications as Dissident
Editions, Bitter Oleander, Thunder Sandwich, Spillway Review, Subtle Tea, Quill
and Ink, Full Moon, Stylus Poetry Journal, Sage of Consciousness.
Lynn Cohen teaches writing at HofstraUniversity and literature and
writing at SuffolkCommunity College. She has published a
chapbook, Lone Star Days. She has also published poems in poetry
magazines and journals and on-line. Lynn was a featured poet at
Performance Poets Association Readings, at the New York Poetry Forum and on
Radio Free Hamptons
Amanda Earl is a Canadian poet and managing editor of www.bywords.ca and the Bywords
Quarterly Journal. Her poems have appeared in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine,
and most recently in the Dusty Owl Quarterly and the online publication Ascent
Aspirations. Her first chapbook, Blood Orange, was published in 2003 by Friday
Circle. Amanda also writes erotic fiction and sensual restaurant reviews.
KathleenMorbey was born
in London, Ontario. She attended CanterburyHigh school in Ottawa, where she was placed in an
intensive triple credit Fine Arts Program. She also has a B.S.A at ConcordiaUniversity. Her most recent artwork combines
both painting and drawing. Working with themes of the body, memory and
observation, she creates an atmosphere or a suggestion of narrative, with a
space left open for people to view what emerges. Her work also examines ideas
of gender identity. She uses images of the interior and exterior as an
expression of subversion. Her work combines realism verging on
abstraction. [email protected]
EmekaUdemba was born in Enugu, Nigeria in1968. He studied art at the University of Lagos and the College of Education Lagos. He has had exhibitions in Europe and Africa. He lives in Germany. www.emekaudemba.com
OluOguibe is a Nigerian art historian, curator,
poet and author. He is Associate Professor of Art and African American studies
at the University of Connecticut. He won the 1992 prestigious All
Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with the poetry collection, A Gathering Fear. He has published
critical books like The Culture Game,
among others. He has also won the Indira Ghandi Memorial Award.
Cathy Anne Stevens was raised in London, England. Having studied English
& Drama at the University of East Anglia, she trained in
performance arts at The Central School of Speech And Drama. She has been
published through Pitshanger Poets and has used her poetry
in her own performance work. Currently, Cathy Anne works as an English and
Drama teacher in London.
