Scream @ Toronto Women's Bookstore

Camille Martin, a Toronto poet and collage artist, is the author of Codes of Public Sleep (BookThug, 2007), in addition to several earlier chapbooks. Recent work is published or forthcoming in The Literary Review of Canada, The Walrus, West Coast Line, PRECIPICe, This Magazine, White Wall Review, Rampike, W Magazine, and Chicago Review. Recently she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete a book of sonnets. She teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University. Her website is http://www.camillemartin.ca

Emily Schultz was born in 1974. Her first collection of short stories, Black Coffee Night, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award for Best First Fiction in Canada, and for the ReLit Award. A story from that collection was adapted for television, airing across Canada and the United States. At the time, the Globe and Mail included her in a “Tomorrow's Ondaatjes and Munros” round-up, calling her one of the country’s most prominent writers under 30. Schultz followed up with a novel, Joyland, and a collection of poetry, Songs for the Dancing Chicken, which was named a finalist for the 2008 Trillium Prize. Her newest novel, Heaven Is Small, will release from House of Anansi Press in 2009.

Her writings have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, the Walrus, Geist, Descant, and several anthologies. She has held the position of editor at two national magazines, run an experimental art space from her home (with artist/writer Brian Joseph Davis), and currently teaches story writing at George Brown College in Toronto.

Lisa Foad is a Toronto-based writer whose work has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals, including Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts and Saints (Arsenal Pulp), Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan Books), Matrix Magazine, and Exile: The Literary Quarterly. Her short story collection, The Night Is A Mouth, is forthcoming in October.

Monica Rosas is an educator/agitator/artist whose work aims to challenge and provoke discussion on gender, the environment and the visible minority experience. A second-generation Colombian-Peruvian Canadian, she grew up in Ontario's one and only city of steel, Hamilton. She has since lived and worked in Colombia, Cuba, Peru and Venezuela, teaching English and Drama as well as producing/writing documentaries. Currently, she is an English and Social Science high school educator who works with at-risk youth in Toronto. Monica is the author of poetry collection, Inside Out (Lyrical Myrical), and her poetry is forthcoming in the TOK Anthology by Diaspora Dialogues. Monica is also the organizer of Cha Cha, a women's reading series in Toronto.