John Beebe’s photography captures the candid, authentic expression of individuals. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at the United Nations. He immigrated to Canada from the United States with his wife and two daughters in 2007. He splits his time between New York and Toronto. To see John’s portfolio or contact him, visit www.facesof.ca.
Award-winning playwright, Daniel MacIvor is an artist who dons many hats. His contributions, which extend beyond the stage to directing feature films and acting, continue to garner critical acclaim. Ever thought Toronto was the only incubator for churning out Canada’s theatrical impresarios? In debunking this, our Maritimer from Cape Breton has successfully toured the world with his da da kamera company.
Lynn Atkinson is a freelance travel writer and publishes a travel newsletter for people with disabilities. She has recently discovered poetry since moving to Toronto from Vancouver.
Clara Blackwood is a poet and student at Victoria College. Her first full collection of poems, Subway Medusa, was published by Guernica Editions in 2007.
Laura Boudreau’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Grain, The Fiddlehead, Room, and The New Quarterly, and was shortlisted for the Great Canadian Literary Hunt (2004), hosted by This Magazine. She lives in Toronto.
In Yeop Choi went to Saint Thomas Aquinas high school, and is currently studying in U of T. Yeop does not have siblings and is interested in English and IR.
Art Chow has been a professor at the University of Manitoba for 34 years. He is now retired and able to travel more. Nearly 60 years have passed since he first started taking photographs.
Laura Cok is an English student in her second year. She prefers language to most people, yet is endlessly fascinated by them.
Ian Cox-Leigh is a self-taught photographer. He is drawn to intimate landscape and /in situ/ natural studies. Through his vision and creative choices, he hopes to share his experience and perception of a subject with his audience. Ian is currently pursuing a PhD in Egyptology.
Robert DiPardo is the son of an auto worker and a former librarian. He was inspired to write The Retirement Party after a year of stocking shelves at a grocery store in Thorold, Ontario. This is his first time appearing in print.
John Estabillo studies English and philosophy at U of T. He lives in Newmarket where he and his wife, Rhobi, are expecting their first child in June 2008.
Eric Foley is in his final year of Literary Studies and English at U of T. He enjoys making films, traveling, and spending time alone in the woods.
Laurel Green is a playwright, producer and theatre director who loves bike riding and coffee drinking. She has had poetry published in Existere and Vinecurls Symphony, and plays recently produced at both the Toronto and Boulder International Fringe Festivals.
Helen Guri has been published in a variety of journals including the Fiddlehead, Grain, Arc, and A Room of One’s Own. She is currently working on a novel-in-verse about a man who falls in love with a sex doll.
Alexandra Grigorescu is 21 and in her final year. Previously published in Acta Victoriana and the Hart House Review, she hopes to one day be a matriarch.
Sangeetha Gunasingham wants to be a rock star. Also, she would like to thank Barb Harris in St. Louis, Missouri for a support which over the years has extended past support merely with issues of rhetoric. Finally, S.G. says hi to her mom.
Eryn Hiscock earned her English degree and hopes to find more time for writing now that her courses are complete. She enjoys writing poetry and has been trying her hand at prose and short fiction lately. She hopes to write a novel someday.
Giles Hodge worked for several years as an actor in Toronto. He received the 2007 Alta Lind Cook Prize and the 2007 Norma Epstein Award for Worthy, currently being considered for development at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Astrid Idlewild is inter alia, a part-time bike messenger, technical writer, intern, tutor, and all sorts of things you really wouldn’t want to tell your grandmum. When able to afford it, Astrid loves shooting with cameras. In a risky move, she sold her Nikon SLR kit in 2005 to finance her OUAC application. The gambit paid off.
When he is not busy as chair of Trin Competitive Debating, Zachary C. Irving is busy co-founding a poetry group, or having the privilege to workshop with Al Moritz and John Reibetanz. His work can be found in Contemporary Verse 2, Acta Victoriana, Trin Review and Poetry Park.
Kate Jenks grew up in Orangeville. She is currently a grad student at U of T.
Jim Johnstone is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Misunderstandings Magazine. He is a two time winner of the E. J. Pratt Medal and was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Poetry Award.
Jacob Keszei is an undergraduate student at UTM.
Jacqueline Larson was born in and shaped by oil-boom Alberta. Her first book is forthcoming from Pedlar Press in autumn ‘08. She lives in Toronto.
Cher Li has never been to Mexico, but she has drawn a cactus.
Fan Li 3rd year. English Major.
After obtaining a Master’s in economics at U of T, Jackson Loi started his career as an economist in the Canadian central bank, and later as a statistical analyst for RBC in Toronto. He takes fashion, music, and wedding photography.
Lois Lorimer was born in Brockville. She has a background in theatre and graduated from The National Theatre School, with degrees from Queen’s and U of T. She has acted at the Shaw Festival and many other theatres in Canada.
Ryan MacIsaac is in Toronto.
Don MacLaughlin has previously published in the literary journals Magpie and Acta Victoriana. He is currently finishing a novel with the assistance of the Toronto Arts Council.
Valavan Manohararajah is a senior member of technical staff at Altera Corp. He shoots with a variety of Nikon equipment.
Arlen Mighton grew up in Haliburton. The son of Robert Leslie Davis and Marilyn Ann Mighton, he left his home town at the appropriate age to enroll in the U of T. He is currently unmarried with no major health defects.
Amy Oliver has always had an artistic flair. Her works have been exhibited at the AGO and Todmorden Mills. She has travelled extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Carribean. Her passion is ecological design.
Will Pazner has lived in London, Santa Barbara, Toronto and, briefly, Jerusalem. Will is a universal cynic and is quite disdainful of whimsical introspection. He also has a strong interest in educational theory and likes physics and trivialism.
Agatha Podgorski has been a photography junkie for 10 years. She’s studied it, taught it, gotten frustrated with it, and loved it every step of the way.
Shana Rose is a San Diego based artist. Specializing in b&w and colored pencil drawings, customized hand-crafted cards, wire-wrapped jewelry, and logo art.
Matt Rutchik is a third year student at the U of T. He contributes poems and articles on modern Canadian poetry to The Ginger and his poems have also been published in the UC Gargoyle.
Danica Sergison is 20 and obsessed with far too much. She is an avid reader, enjoying everything from Neil Gaiman to Michael Ondaatje. However, poetry is her passion, because she loves how it tries to grasp at the intangible.
Gordon Shotwell was born in Boulder Colorado, but grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a graduate student in Urban Planning.
Punam M. Singh is a physician who has a passion for writing creatively. Words thrill her and she finds people fascinating. She hopes to write a novel someday.
Lara Solnicki is a writer of poetry and experimental prose, a classical singer, a contemporary music collaborator and private music teacher. Her first book of poems, Disassembled Stars, was published in fall 2006 by Lyricalmyrical Press.