Russell Smith and Malcolm Jolley

Russell Smith is an acclaimed novelist and broadcaster and writes for The Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto. Malcolm Jolley is the founder and editor of gremolata.com, a popular food website.

Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is the author of 19 Knives, Salvage King, Ya!, and Ireland's Eye. His fiction has been shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize, the Journey Prize, and the Western Magazine Award, and his nonfiction has won gold at the National Magazine Awards.

Sana Krasikov

Sana Krasikov was born in the Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and in the United States. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. Her first published story appeared in The New Yorker, her second in the Atlantic Monthly’s fiction issue. She lives in New York.

Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of Right Livelihoods, The Ice Storm, Garden State, Demonology and The Diviners, among other books. He has won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at the State University of New York and Bennington College.

Erik Rutherford

Erik Rutherford is a writer. He lived in Paris for several years, and worked in radio broadcasting. His voice and his radio shows have been heard on Radio Canada and Radio France Internationale. His writing can be found in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and various literary journals. He now lives in Toronto.

Adam Sol

Adam Sol is the author of two collections of poetry: Jonah’s Promise and Crowd of Sounds, which won Ontario’s Trillium Award for Poetry in 2004. His third book, Jeremiah, Ohio, will be published in spring 2008. He is also the author of numerous essays and reviews for publications including the The Globe and Mail, The Forward, and Critique. He teaches in the Laurentian University @ Georgian College program and lives in Toronto with his wife and three sons.

Amanda Stern

Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul (Soft Skull Press). She founded The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in 2003 and has been hosting and curating it ever since. She has held residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo and is currently working on her second novel. She can be scoured at www.amandastern.com.