Aural Transl(oc)ations

Originally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Jordan Scott now wanders between the Pacific and the Shield. Jordan's first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the fall of 2006, Jordan worked on the final sections of blert while acting as a writer in residence at the International Writers' and Translators' Centre in Rhodes, Greece. Jordan spends the spring and summer slinging canoes at Pitt Lake, the largest freshwater tidal lake in North America.

Paul Swoger-Ruston was born in Toronto in 1968. He began his professional career as a guitarist, touring and recording with rock and jazz bands including the popular Canadian band King Apparatus, and is currently performing and recording as a freelance guitarist supporting several singer/songwriters including Jonathan Cooke (France), Kirsten Jones (Can), and Clara Engels (Can). His film music collective Resolver (co-founded with Mitch Girio and Morgan Doctor) composes and produces music for film and television (recent work includes a 26-part series for the Discovery Channel (USA), documentaries for The CBC and The Showcase Network (CAN), and a feature length). He is primarly an avant-garde composer. Swoger-Ruston has had works premiered in the USA, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Russia. He recently completed a PhD in Theory and Composition at Dartington College of Arts (UK), and have received several awards including The Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) Butterworth Award, the Marion Lower Prize in Composition, the Long & McQuade Guitar Scholarship, 2 CASBY Awards (with band King Apparatus), and his piece 'For Muted Piano' was selected for the SPNM 2003/04 Shortlist. 04 March 2006

Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. She is the author of two poetry books. Her first book, Small Arguments won the ReLit prize for poetry and was praised for its "beautiful jeweller's-eye lyrics". Her second book, Found, is based on a scrapbook that belonged to her father. Her father kept a scrapbook while living in a refugee camp in Laos in 1978. She has presented her poems at The Scream in High Park, Emily Carr, York University's Canadian Writers in Person Lecture series, and Harbourfront's Premiere Dance Theatre. She lives in Toronto, Canada.