Catherine Owen's work has appeared in periodicals such as The Dalhousie Review and Poetry Salzburg. Titles include: Somatic — The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions 1998), nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn, 02), shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, and her new collections, Shall: ghazals (Wolsak and Wynn, 06) and Cusp/detritus (Anvil Press, 06), both longlisted for the Relit Prize. Her latest book is DOG, a collaboration of sonnets with Joe Rosenblatt (Mansfield Press, 08). Frenzy is due out from Anvil Press in Fall 09. A selection from Seeing Lessons, on the pioneer photographer, Mattie Gunterman was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in 2007. A short story, “Food I ate With Frank” was nominated for the Matrix Lit Pop award in 2008.

Her poems have been translated into Italian (Caneide with Joe Rosenblatt, 05), Turkish and Korean. She has a Masters degree in English (Simon Fraser University, 01) and collaborates with multiple artists, including serving as bassist and singer in the bands INHUMAN and Helgrind.

"Poetry is inseparable from music in my mind and blood. Poets are word-musicians whose aim is to hear the sounds often lost or liminalized in the contemporary world. Sounds fuse with images and form to create moments of shimmering habitation on the page and in the air. My concern has always been with the neglected, the endangered, the unsaid."

Paul Saturley is a photographer and occasional writer. He teaches photography at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta and exhibits regularly with other faculty and students. His photography and digital illustrations have been published in Canada and Europe. His web site is www.inkriver.com. You can also find his work on Flickr.

"Although not without pitfalls, photography has become far more interesting in the digital age. Many of us become glassy-eyed and nostangic for the golden age of film but, when offered the opportunity, few of us return to it. It's harder to do and no where near as immediate. Digital photography encourages the shooter to take risks.

Far more important than the latest ridiculously priced Nikon or Canon, however, the ability to access all parts of a recorded image is tremendously liberating. The new photography, if it can be called that, lies in the merger of image elements into something that spans the gap between photography and illustration. In some senses it is not photography at all any more. It is something new that is still in the process of inventing itself."