Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier’s books have won the Governal General’s, the Canadian Authors’ Association, and two Pat Lowther Awards for poetry. She has published 14 collections, the most recent The Blue Hour of the Day. She has received two honorary doctorates for her contribution to Canadian literature, her poems have been translated into several languages, and she has read her work in every continent except Antartica. Presently she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria.

  www.lornacrozier.ca

Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Ontario, Oregon. He has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University. He has taught at Arizona State University, Gettysburg College, Utica College, and he currently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, The Asian Pacific American Journal, North American Review, and elsewhere. His book of prose and verse, Names Above Houses, was a winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series and published by Southern Illinois University Press. His second book, Furious Lullaby, is the editor’s selection for 2007, published by Southern Illinois University Press.  www.oliverdelapaz.com

John Struloeff

John Struloeff is an award-winning poet and fiction writer who grew up in the Pacific Northwest.  His awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry to Stanford University (2005-2007), a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in fiction to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and an Academy of American Poets prize.  Recent selections of his fiction and poetry have been included in The Atlantic Monthly, The Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, The Literary Review and in many other publications. His poetry collection, The Man I Was Supposed to Be, was a finalist for six national book competitions before being released in early 2008.  He now directs the creative writing program at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. www.johnstruloeff.com