Volume 26:4

Transitions

"We face transitions throughout our lives: a new job, divorce, motherhood, relationships, death. The road represents transition, for it takes us from here to there. Transitions are not always easy. Sometimes the road is dark and long and we forget that there was ever a destination."

-- patricia robitaille, editor

Debra Franke is a graduate of Queen's University, and lives in Courtice, Ontario where she writes poetry and short fiction. Her poetry was recently published in lichen, A Time of Trial anthology, and Signatures anthology, and her story "Carnaby and Clover" won the 2002 Toronto CAA short story competition.

Adrianne Kalfopoulouteaches creative writing and English literature at the University of LaVerne in Athens, Greece. She is the author of Wild Greens, her first poetry collection (Red Hen Press, 2002), and a chapbook, Fig, which won the 2000 EDDA Women's Poetry Chapbook contest from The Sarasota Poetry Theater Press. Adrianne has also published a book of criticism on female discourses in American culture, The Untidy House (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).

Carol Matthews has worked as a community worker and as an Instructor and Dean at Malaspina University-College. Her short stories and essays have appeared in various journals and newspapers, including Canadian Writers' Journal, Out of Bounds, The New Quarterly, and The National Post, and she is the editor of Victor's Verses, a collection of dog poetry recently published by Outlaw Editions. She lives on Protection Island, BC.

Sharmini Thiagarajah (cover artist for this issue) is a graphic designer and illustrator with a diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration from Capilano College, and a BSc in Biology from Simon Fraser University. Born in Sri Lanka, she also lived in the Middle East before finally settling in Vancouver, Canada. Her love of nature and fond memories of tropical climates are expressed through a palette of rich, warm colours in her paintings.

Patricia Rose Young has published eight books of poetry, most recently Ruin and Beauty (Anansi, 2000). She lives in Victoria, BC.