Lex: The Next Generation!

Alixandra Bamford is a writer and artist. At the University of Toronto she is an undergraduate, majoring in Linguistics and Animal Physiology. She is co-creator of youth literary 'zine Knives Out. Her poetry has appeared recently in Phoebe and dANDelion (The Radical Translation Issue). Her graphic novel is forthcoming from Outside Voices Press.

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is the author of two novels, and several books of poetry. He is also an avid translator of foreign literature. He works with performance and sound-poetry, and regularly appears at poetry and music festivals, as well as dabbling in the dark arts of the concrete. His books in Icelandic have been critically acclaimed, and critics have found reason to compare him to such dissimilar poets as Snorri Sturluson and Vladimir Mayakovsky. In the recent years he has explored the possibilities inherent in the European and North-American avant-garde traditions, and focused on disassembling language into its visual, social and linguistic units. Eiríkur is a founding member of the Nýhil poet cooperative.

Norðdahl’s poetry has been published in the following non-icelandic magazines: filling Station (can), NoD (can), dANDelion (can), Lichtungen (austria), OUTsidermagasin (Faroe Islands), Nypoesi (Norway), Das Wörterbuch der Strasse (Austria), Tuli ja Savu (Finland), KirjaIn (Finland), El dedo critico (Peru), RealPoetik (US) and Muse-Aprentice-Guild (US).

Photo by Aino Huovio

Natalie Zina Walschots' first book, Thumbscrews (Montreal: Snare Books, 2007*),*won the Robert Kroetsch award for Innovative Poetry. Natalie recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She is the current Managing Editor of filling Station and former Editor of dANDelion. She is also the co-organizer of the flywheel reading series. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, FOURSQUARE, and Matrix. Natalie now writes about comic books, villains, video games and molecular gastronomy. She lives in Calgary with her husband, who is a Systems Consultant and a very good sport.