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Tesseracts Ten

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Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction Author Biographies: René Beaulieu is a writer, anthologist, critic and translator (works by De Lint, Moorcock and Sturgeon). He is also a library technician and has been actively involved with SFQ since the early 1970s. He is the author of three collections of short stories, including Légendes de Virnie (Prix Boréal). His short story “Le Geai Bleu” won both the Dagon and Boréal awards. René is a former radio host, specialized librarian, and literary director (PTBGDA, L’ASSFQ), and member of the Board for the Grand Prix de la SFFQ. A half dozen of his short stories and articles have been translated and published in English. Recently, he has published articles and reviews in KWS, Bifrost, Solaris and elsewhere, but has never forgotten his love for short fiction. Upcoming publications include: “Sandra” (XYZ), a new version of “Un Fantôme D’Amour” (Solaris) and a new version of “Cendres” dans Les Anges Électriques (Les Moutons Électriques, A.-F. Ruaud). He has a blog: http://geaibleu.joueb.com/ Greg Bechtel’s stories have appeared in Prairie Fire, On Spec, Challenging Destiny and Qwerty magazines. He has recently moved to Edmonton, where he is pursuing a PhD in English literature and attempting to resurrect his first novel, which saw its original incarnation as his MA thesis in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. At the moment of drafting this bio, “Blackbird Shuffle” has been nominated for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a Western Magazine Award. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is a five-time Aurora Award finalist and the author of eight novels and over fifty short stories. Stephanie welcomes visitors to her website at www.feralmartian.com Nancy Bennett is an essayist, poet and fiction writer. Her work has appeared in such places as Tales of the Unanticipated, Tesseracts, Flesh and Blood and Not One of Us. She has made the recommended reading list for the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror three times. Her latest achievement, a cinquain poem, appeared in ìIn Fine Formî alongside the works of P. K. Page, Robert Service and Margaret Atwood. Jason Christie is considered to be one of Canada’s cutting-edge poets and is, perhaps, one of the most important poets of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His avant-garde style challenges the status quo and questions what a poem may be. The robot poem included in this collection, from his i-ROBOT Poetry by Jason Christie collection, illuminates his unique and somewhat whimsical, alternative style. Sheryl Curtis, translator. With undergraduate and graduate degrees in translation from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Concordia University, Sheryl Curtis is a certified member of the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Quebec (OTTIAQ) and works as a professional translator. During the course of her career, she also taught translation over a period of 20 years as a member of the part-time faculty at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec. She is also a member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and is devoting more and more of her time to literary translation. Since 1998, her translations of short stories have appeared in Interzone, Year’s Best Science Fiction 4, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 15, On Spec, Altair, Tesseracts 8, Tesseracts 9, and elsewhere. Mark Dachuk is a lifetime resident of Toronto, and makes his living as a carpenter. He is also a raging gamer, often pitching multiple card and board game ideas to friends, or boring them with various exploits in his online universe. He is currently in the process of forming a game company with a group of friends. “Permission” is his first published short story. Serious inquiries can be sent to Mark Dachuk at: markdachuk@gmail.com Victoria Fisher was born in England but now divides her year between Ottawa and Toronto, where she is currently studying English, History and Politics at the University of Toronto. She is distracted from her studies by her first love — a fascination for stories of all kinds. Susan Forest’s first novel for young adults, The Dragon Prince, (Gage Educational Publishers) was awarded the Children's Circle Book Choice Award, and was chosen by Gage as one of two young adult novels to represent the company at a book fair in Berlin. Her short story, “Playing Games” appeared in the 2006 Winter issue of ON SPEC magazine, and her story, “Immunity” will be included in the December 2006 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. Matthew Hughes writes science fiction and science-fantasy. His alter ego, Matt Hughes, writes suspense fiction. He has published four novels, thirty short stories, one collection and two non-fiction books. His latest sf novel is Majestrum (Night Shade, 2006), the fourth set in the Archonate universe. The first three were Fools Errant, Fool Me Twice and Black Brillion. His short sf stories have appeared in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone and Postscripts. His web page is at http://www.archonate.com/ Matthew Johnson is a writer and teacher who lives in Ottawa with his wife Megan. He has published stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction, On Spec, and Space and Time, as well as the anthologies Time for Bedlam and Deathgrip: Exit Laughing. He has written two novels, both of which reside currently in Slush Pile Limbo, and is at work on a third. “Closing Time” was workshopped in its early stages by the Stone Stories workshop group at Queen’s University, to whom many thanks are due. You can find more information on his website: www.zatrikion.blogspot.com. Sandra Kasturi is the co-creator (along with Jason Taniguchi) of the animated children’s TV series, Adventures of the Sinister Horde. She recently won the prestigious ARC magazine annual Poem of the Year award for her poem “Old Men, Smoking.” Sandra edited the SF poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She has three chapbooks published and her work has also appeared in magazines (Prairie Fire, ON SPEC, TransVersions, Star*Line and others) and anthologies, including several of the Tesseracts series, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, Northern Frights 4, and Girls Who Bite Back. Her first full-length poetry collection, tentatively titled Animal Bridegrooms, will appear in 2007 from Tightrope Books. Sandra is the grant administrator and a judge for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Older Writers’ Grant, and is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop. She runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, and has won a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the on-line magazine, ChiZine. During the day, Sandra works as a production coordinator at YTV. Michèle Laframboise. A science-fiction lover since childhood, Michèle Laframboise juggles her time between drawing comics, writing stories, and caring for her family. With an academic background in geography and civil engineering, she began to draw and write SF. She has published six SF books so far, two of which have won awards: Les Nuages de Phoenix, a YA novel, received a general literature award in Québec and Les Mémoires de l’Arc was awarded a 2005 Aurora Award. She has published several short stories. She is currently working on two comic book projects and one YA novel, in addition to translating her novels into English. Scott Mackay has published over forty short stories in magazines such as Science Fiction Age, On Spec, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He’s winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery short story, as well as the Okanagan Award for best literary short fiction. He’s the author of nine novels, including Outpost (Tor 1998), The Meek (Roc 2001), Orbis (Roc 2002), and Omnifix (Roc 2004), which was listed at Number 6 on the Locus bestsellers list. The Meek was a John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist for best SF novel of 2001. Prometheus Books published his latest SF novel, Tides, under the Pyr imprint in fall of 2005. Recently, he sold two new novels to Roc: Phytosphere, which will appear in 2007; and Omega Sol, which will appear some time after. His books have appeared in six languages. Colleen McDonald (artist) is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art & Design. She is a fine artist, illustrator and creature designer. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she now lives and works on her designs in Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Examples of her work can be seen on: www3.ns.sympatico.ca/colleen.mcdonald Allen Moore worked for two decades in high technology. He designed laser writing equipment for the printing industry and instrumentation for astrophysics. Allen is now a volunteer in his community, providing support to people with life-threatening illnesses. He also tutors both math and physics to street youth in downtown Vancouver. Yvonne Pronovost is a twenty-something living in Edmonton, Alberta, whose work has appeared in Neo-Opsis Magazine, NFG, Beyond Centauri, and the Darkness Rising 2005 horror anthology from Prime Books. She likes tea, pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain, but isn’t very fond of onions. Neither of her thumbs are green. Rhea Rose was born in Etobicoke, Ontario and rode the CN rails for 3 days to move to BC when she was twelve (she took her parents with her), writing almost continuously before and since then. She nearly didn’t attend Clarion West in Seattle in 1984 when, at the US border, they asked her if she had a student visa to study at Seattle Central College? She said no and so did they. So she promised that she would just go shopping in Bellingham and they let her in. Six weeks later, she was a born again SF and F writer. She also writes nonfiction and fiction. Her speculative short stories have been published in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology, TaleBones, Tesseracts, Tesseracts 2, ON SPEC, and Christmas Forever, edited by David Hartwell. Stories from both these latter publications made the preliminary nebula award list. Her speculative poetry has appeared in Tesseracts 9, Tesseracts 6 (poem nominated for a Rhysling award), TaleBones, Transversions, Mythic Circle, Olympic View anthology, and T.S. Elliot Remembered. She is an active member of The Lonely Cry (a writers’ performance group) and the Helix writers’ group. She has organized many local writers’ workshops, has had the opportunity to do extra work in local movies, and has participated in the Vancouver Fringe Festival. To support her writing habit she teaches senior English at an alternate school in Coquitlam. Lisa Smedman is a writer and game designer, with a dozen novels published to date. She has designed adventures for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game, as well as a number of other roleplaying games. She wrote The Apparition Trail, an alternate-history science fiction novel, is the creator of three one-act plays, and the author of numerous short stories. A journalist for more than 20 years, she currently splits her week between her “day job” as an editor and historical columnist at a Vancouver newspaper and writing fiction. She facilitates a bi-weekly writers’ workshop and has been active in organizing science fiction conventions. Lisa Smedman’s website is located at www.lisasmedman.topcities.com. Sarah Totton has sold stories to Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony 5, The Nine Muses (Wheatland Press), Tesseracts Nine, and Tales of the Unanticipated. She is a Third Place winner in the 2005 L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. Edo van Belkom (editor) has won both the Bram Stoker and Silver Birch Awards and is a three-time winner of the Aurora Award, Canada’s top prize for speculative writing. Among his novels are Scream Queen, Blood Road, Martyrs and Teeth. In addition to Tesseracts 10, Edo is the editor of four other anthologies including Be Afraid! and Be Very Afraid! His most recent work is a series of novels for young readers, Wolf Pack, Lone Wolf, and Cry Wolf. Born in 1962, he graduated from York University with an honors degree in Creative Writing and has worked as everything from school bus driver to security guard, newspaper reporter to television horror movie host. The author of well over 200 short stories, Edo makes his home in Brampton, Ontario with his wife and son. Feel free to visit his website at www.vanbelkom.com Wendy Waring is a translator, editor, lecturer and writer who lives in Sydney, Australia whenever she gets the chance. She’s currently finishing a fantasy novel, Empire of the Pure. A survivor of Clarion South, "Au pays" is her first genre specfic publication. Her second, "Stonework", will appear in Interzone Robert Charles Wilson (editor) is the author of many short stories and twelve novels. His work has appeared in such publications as Realms of Fantasy, F & SF, and Tesseracts 3, 4 & 6, and his short story “The Inner, Inner City” was a World Fantasy Award finalist. His latest novel, Spin, now in paperback, won the 2006 Hugo Award. He has also received the John W. Campbell Award, three Aurora Awards, and the Philip K. Dick Award. Robert Charles Wilson was born in California in 1953, but moved to Canada when he was nine years old. He currently lives near Toronto. Tesseracts Ten: Basic Information Page. Tesseracts Ten: Introduction. Tesseracts Ten: Author Biographies. Tesseracts Series: About the Series.

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