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Douglas Glover is often referred to as “the most eminent unknown Canadian writer alive” (Maclean’s Magazine, The National Post), an epithet that delights and consoles him (the “alive” part). He has also been called “a master of narrative structure” (Wall Street Journal), which is nice but misses the tragic tone of the other. A new book is just out: Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing.

He is the author of five story collections, four novels, two books of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son and the above mentioned Attack of the Copula Spiders, and The Enamoured Knight, a book about Don Quixote and novel form. His novel Elle won the 2003 Governor-General’s Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was optioned by Isuma Igloolik Productions, makers of Atarnajuat, The Fast Runner. His story book A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General’s Award. His stories have been frequently anthologized, notably in The Best American Short Stories, Best Canadian Stories, and The New Oxford Book of Canadian Stories. He was the subject of a TV documentary in a series called The Writing Life and a collection of critical essays, The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, edited by Bruce Stone.

Since he washed up in the hinterlands of upstate New York in the early 1990s, Glover has taught at Skidmore College, Colgate University, Davidson College, the University at Albany-SUNY and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge, St. Thomas University and Utah State University. For two years he produced and hosted The Book Show, a weekly half-hour literary interview program which originated at WAMC in Albany and was syndicated on various public radio stations and around the world on Voice of America and the Armed Forces Network. He edited the annual Best Canadian Stories from 1996 to 2006. He has two sons, Jacob and Jonah, who will doubtless turn out better than he did.

See also the author’s web site at Douglas Glover, a short story called “A Paranormal Romance” at The Literarian, another story called “Snow Days” (with a sound file of author reading) on the CBC Canada Writes website, three stories “State of the Nation,” “Shameless” and “Crown of Thorns” at The Brooklyn Rail, an excerpt from the story “Savage Love” in Geist, “A Scrupulous Fidelity: Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser,” an essay in The Brooklyn Rail, “Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought” an essay on the history of ideas also in The Brooklyn Rail, “Difficulty and Revolution” an essay on the novels of Hubert Aquin in Context, “The Mind of Alice Munro” an essay in Canadian Notes & Queries, an excerpt from The Enamoured Knight in the Globe and Mail, and eight extremely wise epigrams at Global Brief. Shelagh Shapiro interviews DG on the radio at Write the Book. Streaming video of DG reading from his novel Elle and answering questions from the audience is available, should you choose to inflict this upon yourself, at Canadian Writers in Person. You can also see a video of his famous novel lecture, based on the first essay in Attack of the Copula Spiders and delivered at the Center for Fiction in New York, March 14, 2012.

Senior Editors

Richard Farrell is the Creative Non-Fiction Editor at upstreet and a Senior Editor at Numéro Cinq (in fact, he is one of the original group who helped found the site). A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he has worked as a high school teacher, a defense contractor, and as a Navy pilot. He is a graduate from the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories. His work, including memoir, craft essays, and book reviews, has published at Hunger Mountain and Numéro Cinq. He lives in San Diego.

R. W. Gray (Numéro Cinq at the Movies) was born and raised on the northwest coast of British Columbia, and received a PhD in Poetry and Psychoanalysis from the University of Alberta in 2003. He is the author of Crisp, a short story collection, and two serialized novels in Xtra West magazine and has published poetry in various journals and anthologies, including Arc, Grain, Event, and dANDelion. He also has had ten short screenplays produced, including Alice & Huck and Blink. He currently teaches Film at the University of New Brunswick in Frederiction.

Contributing Editors

Patrick J. Keane is Professor Emeritus of Le Moyne College. Though he has written on a wide range of topics, his areas of special interest have been 19th and 20th-century poetry in the Romantic tradition; Irish literature and history; the interactions of literature with philosophic, religious, and political thinking; the impact of Nietzsche on certain 20th century writers; and, most recently, Transatlantic studies, exploring the influence of German Idealist philosophy and British Romanticism on American writers. His books include William Butler Yeats: Contemporary Studies in Literature (1973), A Wild Civility: Interactions in the Poetry and Thought of Robert Graves (1980), Yeats’s Interactions with Tradition (1987), Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland and the Myth of the Devouring Female (1988), Coleridge’s Submerged Politics (1994), Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic “Light of All Our Day” (2003), and Emily Dickinson’s Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering (2007). o

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.Natalia Sarkissian was born in Michigan and as a child lived in Iran, California, West Virginia, Portugal, and New York. She holds a BA and MA in art history, an MBA in international finance and an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has worked as a curatorial assistant, a management consultant, a teacher of English as a foreign language, and always, as a writer. Her essays on art and finance have been published in the US and Italy by the University of Texas Press and IPSOA publishers. Her short stories twice won honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story contest and a personal essay won The Huffington Post Election Day Contest. She has been a Contributing Editor at Numéro Cinq since 2010 and her photo essay for the magazine (Egypt after the Revolution, II) was selected as best of the blogs by WordPress.com. Currently finishing her first novel (A Visitor’s Guide to Titti’s Men) and working on a book of interlinked short stories (Riviera Red), Natalia now divides her time between Italy, Egypt and the United States.

Contributors

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A. Anupama is a poet and MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her career has spanned molecular biology, legal publishing, and orthopedic surgery textbooks in her search for beauty, truth, and the marrow of life. Her book Kali Sutra: Poems was a semi-finalist for Tupelo Press’s 2011 First or Second Book of Poetry Award. She lives in Nyack, New York.

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Adam Regn Arvidson is a landscape architect and writer in Minneapolis. He has published numerous articles on design, planning, and landscape in a variety of magazines, including Landscape Architecture, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Planning, and Metropolis. He is founder of Treeline, a design/writing consultancy that assists public and private clients in telling the story of their land through landscape architecture and writing deeply rooted in place. In 2009 Adam won the Bradford Williams Medal, the nation’s highest award for landscape architectural writing, and he has a book forthcoming on environmental practices in the nursery and landscaping industry (W.W. Norton, 2012). This fall, Adam will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. o.

Kim Aubrey grew up in Bermuda but now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a writer, editor, and artist with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her watercolours have been exhibited in galleries, and her writing has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The New Quarterly, Room, Event, upstreet and other journals. She recently completed a memoir, The Girl in the Blue Leotard. She is a Founding Member and Editor of Red Claw Press and leads an annual retreat to Bermuda for writers and artists. She is the Fiction Editor at Grain...

Brianna Berbenuik is a 20-something misanthropist and student of Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She is an avid fan of kitschy pop-culture, terrible Nic Cage movies, the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek, and Freud. You can find her at Love & Darkness & My Side-Arm on her twitter account where she goes by ukrainiak47..

Cheryl Cowdy teaches Canadian and children’s literature at York University in Toronto. Her current obsessions have to do with play, ritual, and suburbs. Her work has appeared in Bookbird, Descant, Global Studies of Childhood, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Room Magazine. Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood is her favourite haunt, where she lives with her two daughters and her two cats..
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Jason DeYoung lives in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has recently appeared in Corium, The Los Angeles Review, The Fiddleback, New Orleans Review, and Numéro Cinq.

Mary Stein lives and works in Minneapolis where she coordinates arts programming and writing workshops for women who experience barriers with poverty and homelessness. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been a contributor for Numéro Cinq since winter, 2010. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, and she has a story forthcoming in Caketrain.

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