Christine LeClerc
Shannon Stewart
Farrah Field
Jared White
Nicole Markotic

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 @ 7;00

W2 Flack Block Gallery
157 West Hastings

A disjunct!, W2 and KSW and co-production, curated by Nikki Reimer

please note early start time

Farrah Field’s first book, Rising, has just been released by Four Way Books. Poems have appeared in Chelsea, Harp & Altar, Harpur Palate, Margie, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Pool, and Typo. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in Nebraska, Colorado, Louisiana, Arkansas, Sicily, and Belgium. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Horse Less Review, The Modern Review, Sawbuck, and Word For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled Yellowcake will appear in the upcoming chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

Shannon Stewart is the author of Penny Dreadful (Signal Editions.) Her first book, The Canadian Girl, was finalist for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award and Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1999. She was born in Ottawa and raised in British Columbia. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has been the poetry editor of PRISM International, and was included in Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets. She lives in Vancouver.

Nicole Markotić is a fiction writer and poet. Her most recent novel is Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, released by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008. Her first novel, Yellow Pages (Red Deer Press), was a prose narrative about Alexander Graham Bell; she has also published two  books of poetry, Connect the Dots and Minotaurs and Other Alphabets (Wolsak & Wynn) and a chapbook, more excess, which won the bP Nichol Poetry Chapbook Award. A former resident of Calgary, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor.

Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in 42opus, Dig, FRONT, FU, Interim, Memewar, OCHO, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, and the Worksound gallery. Leclerc is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published by CUE (2008). She teaches Creative Writing at Langara College Continuing Studies.