Jay MillAr is the author of several best-best-never-read-by-the-masses-but-perhaps-you-did-hear-mention-of-them-in-your-wildest-dreams books, the most recent of which include&nbspthe small blue,&nbspesp: accumulation sonnets,&nbspOther Poems&nbspand&nbspTimely Irreverence. He is also the author of several privately published editions, including Lack Lyrics,&nbspwhich tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award, and as such deserves to remain in limited circulation. Jay is the co-publisher at Book*hug, a government funded project that promotes literary contamination for the betterment of reading in the future or after nuclear winter (whichever comes first); he also curates Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. He teaches poetry/poetics at an imaginary institution called Toronto New School of Writing.

Tim Conley's recent books include the poetry collection One False Move (2012), Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (edited, with Jed Rasula, 2012), and Nothing Could be Further: Thirty Stories (2011). He lives in St. Catharines, ON, where he teaches English at Brock University, and has published widely on Joyce, Nabokov, and other topics in twentieth-century literature.