Delirium Press & Wave Books Present Departure Reading Series April 29, 2006

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, California. He is the author of A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001) and Water's Leaves and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2005). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1997 and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He
lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter and son.

Katia Grubisic has published poetry, fiction, translations and reviews in The New Quartlery, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, ellipse, Books in Canada, Front & Centre and The Fiddlehead, and in a chapbook with Delirium Press. She has been an editor with The Fiddlehead, Qwerty and The New Quarterly, and is presently the managing editor at Vallum magazine. She lives in Montreal.

Zac Schnier is in his second year of a M.A. program in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University. He has published short fiction with Delirium Press and has contributed book reviews to The Toronto Sun. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories.

Jon Paul Fiorentino's most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books,2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello
Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Managing Editor of Matrix magazine.

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