HOT-SAUCED WORDS

Ingrid Ruthig earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Toronto in the 1980s. After a decade of practice in Toronto, she retired from the profession to write full-time.

Her work has been published internationally, and across Canada in The Malahat Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and other journals and anthologies.

In 2005, her poetry won a Petra Kenney Award and the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Competition. She contributes reviews and interviews to Books in Canada, and co-edited LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview for eight years.

Her first collection of poetry, “A History of Falling”, is currently under consideration; a chapbook Synesthete II is available from Littlefishcart Press, and a book of essays on the work of Canadian poet Richard Outram will be released this year from Guernica Editions.
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Steven Laird writes instruction manuals, tutorials, and other arcane documents related to business software for a living. But he’s also the Senior Editor and occasional columnist for Arts News Canada, a national online news and arts advocacy web portal.

Until its demise this year (2007), he was Poetry Editor for Lichen Arts & Letters Preview. His own first poetry collection, ‘Charlatan’ (Ronsdale Press, 2005), was a finalist in the George Lampert Memorial Award competition, and he also has a chapbook ‘A Sea Tale’ published by littlefishcart press in Peterborough in 2006. His second full-length collection, called ‘Stilt Dance’ is currently seeking a home.

Steven has written reviews, article, interviews and essays for Books in Canada, Canadian Notes and Queries, Writers Block, The Good Report, and Bookninja.

For a short time – about 3 years – he ran a bookstore and reading venue of his own in St. John’s, Newfoundland, called The Poet and Peasant Bookstore Café.