Interviews At Kicking Wind // [http://www.kickingwind.com/80606.html] At La Petite Zine // [http://www.lapetitezine.org/Howsare.T...] At Writer Response Theory // [http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordp...] Reviews At Cutbank // [http://cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com/200...] At Diagram // [http://www.thediagram.com/6\_4/rev\_tyn...] At Galatea Resurrection // [http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot....] At Kristi Maxwell's Blog // [http://kristimaxwell.blogspot.com/200...] At GutCult // [http://gutcult.com/Site/litjourn8/JT1...] At The Burning Chair // [http://www.typomag.com/burningchair/2...]

"seeing something simply in its being-thus—irreparable, but not for that reason necessary; thus, but not for that reason contingent—is love. at the point you percieve the irreparability of the world,at that point it is transcendent. how the world is—this is outside the world."—giorgio agamben

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of nearly thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. In Canadian Literature, Gordon Bölling praised his novel Missing Persons as “a welcome addition to the body of Canadian prairie fiction.” His collection of short fiction, The Uncertainty Principle has been described as: “Little flash fictions, some quirky, some funny, some touching. A fun read.” (Pearl Pirie). In a review on the ottawa poetry newsletter, Ryan Pratt wrote that “Thanks to mclennan’s discipline, our experience reading The Uncertainty Principle requires none. Organized to accommodate brief interactions (which, like the psychology behind bite-sized chocolate bars, results here in complete overindulgence), the book proves incessantly fresh, taken as a whole or in cursory, page-flipping handfuls.” An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com), as well as organizes the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair, which he co-founded in 1994. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Amanda K. Davidson is a writer, performance maker, teacher, and editor based in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Arcanagrams: A Reckoning is forthcoming on Little Red Leaves' textile series, and her fiction chapbook Apprenticeship (New Herring Press), was a finalist for the University of Kentucky’s 2013 Calvino Prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Millay Colony. Her fiction appears in Ping Pong, The Encyclopedia Project, 4’33”, and elsewhere, and her reviews and author interviews appear in the Believer, eMusic.com, and the City Lights Bookstore blog. She teaches writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and is currently at work on a performance novel about the mystic Swedenborg.