Marcus McCann

Amanda Earl

William Hawkins

Marcus McCann is an editor and writer at Capital Xtra. His poetry debuted in the The Antigonish Review at age 18. He is the editor of theonionunion.com, a selector for Bywords and a former selector for Yawp. With Nicholas Lea and Andrew Faulkner, he is the author-translator of Basement Tapes (The Onion Union, 2007), a chapbook of homolinguistic translations. As winner of the 2005 University of Ottawa 48-Hour Novella Writing Contest, his So Long, Derrida (UESA, 2006) was published by the university. Heteroskeptical (above/ground press, 2007) is his first solo poetry chapbook.

Amanda Earl's poems appeared most recently in ottawater.com 3.0, listenlight.net and the Ottawa Arts Review. Amanda is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. She blogs about literary stuff on amandaearl.blogspot.com and ottawapoetry.blogspot.com. She also writes fiction and has been published in anthologies with the word sex in them. She will be launching her poetry chapbook Eleanor (above/ground press).

William Hawkins was born in Ottawa. After side trips to the West Coast and Mexico, he resides in the Capital, pursuing enlightenment or a reasonable alternative thereto. Hawkins has worked as a truck driver, cook, journalist and musician before settling on the taxi profession as a means of preserving integrity and ensuring near-poverty. His collections of poems include Shoot Low, Sheriff, They're Riding Shetland Ponies (Ottawa), Two longer poems (Patrician Press, Toronto), Hawkins (Nil Press, Ottawa), Ottawa Poems (weed/flower press, Kitchener), The Gift of Space (New Press, Toronto) and The Madman's War (S.A.W. Publications, Ottawa). In 2005, a collection of his work, titled Dancing Alone: Selected Poems 1960-1990, was release by Broken Jaw Press (Fredericton) and cauldron books (Ottawa). He has also recorded a CD of his best songs titled Dancing Alone. He will be launching the chapbook the black prince of bank street (above/ground press).

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