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Brian Kim Stefans is the author of Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998) and the forthcoming Angry Penguins (Object). He has published work in a variety of journals, but also on the internet at the Jacket website (www.jacket.zip.com) under a pseudonym, and graphic poems and the essay "Stops and Rebels" at the ubu site (www.ubu.com). He edited/published three issues of the journal Arras before taking it to the web in 1998 (www.arras.net). Essays and reviews have appeared in Korean Culture and the Poetry Project Newsletter, and a long essay on alternative Asian North Asian American writing is forthcoming in Talisman. A collaboration with Sianne Ngai, "The Cosmopolitans" was featured as the second issue of the zine Interlope, published by Summi Kaipa out of Iowa City. He lives in NY.
Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960's, where he was a founding editor of the poetry newsletter TISH. He did graduate work in literature and linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he edited Sum magazine. In 1967 he graduated with a masters degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he co-edited the Niagara Frontier Review and The Magazine of Further Studies. He returned to the Kootenays in the late 1960's, edited Scree, and taught at Selkirk College. He is currently a contributing editor to Open Letter. In 1989 he and his wife Pauline Butling moved to Calgary where he teaches at the University of Calgary. Wah has written numerous critiques of contemporary Canadian and American literature. His books include: Tree (Vancouver Community Press, 1972) Earth (Institute of Further Studies, Canton, 1974) Pictograms from the Interior of B.C. (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1975) Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poetry (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1980) Grasp The Sparrow's Tail (Kyoto, 1982) Music at the Heart of Thinking (Red Deer College Press, Alberta, 1987) Limestone Lakes Utaniki (Red Deer College Press, Alberta, 1989) and Alley Alley Home Free (Red Deer College Press, Alberta, 1992).
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