The Translators
Neil Bishop
	.Bio forthcoming.
Beatriz Hausner
	Beatriz Hausner is a poet and the translator of some 25 titles of poetry, fiction and children’s literature, primarily from Spanish into English. Her poetry is rooted in the traditions of Spanish America and international surrealism and most of her translations have focused on the writers of those literatures. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, was published in 2003. She has translated the poetry of Rosamel del Valle, Enrique Molina, Enrique Gómez-Correa, Humberto Díaz Casanueva, Ludwig Zeller, as well as prose works by Matt Cohen and Alvaro Mutis, among others. She was twice President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. She works as a librarian at the Toronto Public Library.
Jonathan Kaplansky
	Jonathan Kaplansky has translated works by Hélène Rioux, Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Hélène Dorion and Hervé Dumont. In 2003, he served on the jury for the Governor General's Literary Awards for Translation, and has given numerous public readings of his translations, often reading simultaneously with the author. He grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick and Montreal and now resides in Ottawa.
A.F. Moritz
	Bio forthcoming
Stephen Scobie
	Poet and scholar Stephen Scobie was born in Scotland and teaches Canadian literature at the University of Victoria. He received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for his book McAlmon’s Chinese Opera and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995. He has written several books including And Forget My Name, a speculative biography of Bob Dylan, published by Ekstasis Editions.
Leonard Sugden
	Bio forthcoming.
Marie Vautier
	Marie Vautier teaches Québécois literature, comparative Canadian literature and literary theory at the University of Victoria, where she is the Director of the Comparative Canadian Literature Program. She has published several articles on postmodernism, postcolonialism and feminism in contemporary writing in French and English, and is the author of New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction (McGill-Queen’s, 1998). In the past, she has invited several Québécois poets to meet the university community, from Nicole Brossard to Pierre Nepveu, and from André Roy to France Théoret. She is pleased to make the poems in this anthology available to those who read poetry in English.