Jesus Hardwell’s short fiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The Windsor Review, Front & Centre, and Exile. Hardwell recently completed a volume of stories entitled Bloodgroove and is currently at work on a number of plays as well as a vocal chamber drama, The Star-Knot Variations. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Daniel Griffin’s previous appearance in The Journey Prize Stories was in 2004. “The Last Great Works of Alvin Cale” was one of five stories he published in 2008. His work was also highlighted in Coming Attractions 2008. Griffin lives with his wife and three daughters in Victoria, B.C., where he is completing a collection of stories about fathers, brothers, and twenty-first-century family life. You can read more of his work at www.danielgriffin.ca.
Paul Headrick’s first novel, That Tune Clutches My Heart, was published by Gaspereau Press. “Highlife,” which appeared in Event, is part of The Doctrine of Affections, a collection of stories on musical themes forthcoming from Freehand Books. Headrick teaches English and Creative Writing at Langara College and lives in Vancouver with his partner, novelist Heather Burt.
Sarah Keevil has published short fiction and poetry in CV2, Descant, filling Station, Kiss Machine, and Room. She has degrees in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University and was the winner of the 2004 Irving Layton Award for Fiction. “Pyro,” which first appeared in Event, was also nominated for a National Magazine Award. She currently lives in Toronto, where she is at work on her first novel.
Adrian Michael Kelly is the author of a novel, Down Sterling Road. His short stories and essays have appeared in Queen’s Quarterly, Best Canadian Stories, Canadian Notes and Queries, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. He currently lives in Calgary, where he is completing a collection of short stories to be published by Biblioasis.
Fran Kimmel is an Alberta lifer who recently moved from Calgary to the rural community of Lacombe. Her short fiction has appeared in Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, and filling Station, and she has won both CBC Anthology and Write for Radio awards. She writes extensively for the corporate sector and is working on a collection of interlocking stories.
Lynne Kutsukake’s short fiction has appeared in Grain Magazine, The Windsor Review, Ten Stories High Short Story Anthology, and Ricepaper. Another story is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. She has studied in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and attended the Writing with Style Spring 2008 Program at the Banff Centre. As well as writing fiction, she has translated modern Japanese literature. Kutsukake lives in Toronto and is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Alexander MacLeod lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Mary’s University. His short stories have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and his first collection will be published by Biblioasis Press.
Dave Margoshes is a Regina writer whose stories and poems have appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including the Best Canadian Stories volumes. He’s published three novels and five collections of stories; the most recent, Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories, won two prizes at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. “The Wisdom of Solomon” is the latest in a series of stories based on the life of his father.
Shawn Syms’s fiction, poetry, essays, and journalism have appeared in the Globe and Mail, PRISM international, The Danforth Review, Quill & Quire, and twenty or so other publications. He’s in the final stages of writing Human Forces, a short fiction collection.
Sarah L. Taggart’s story “Deaf” won The Malahat Review’s Jack Hodgins Founders Award. Taggart was born in Calgary and is hopefully almost done her Master’s in Publishing from Simon Fraser University. She might live in Montreal.
Yasuko Thanh has lived in Germany, Mexico, and Central America, and currently resides in Victoria. Her stories have been published in Prairie Fire, Descant, Fireweed, The Fiddlehead, PRISM international, and Vancouver Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in publications as diverse as the Vancouver Sun, Island Parent Magazine, Speak, and subTerrain. She was a finalist for the Hudson Prize, the Millennium Prize, and the David Adams Richards Award. She is at work on a novel and a short story collection called When You Get Where You’re Going.