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Glen Downie was born in Winnipeg, worked in cancer care for many years in Vancouver, and now lives in Toronto.  In 1999, he served as Writer-in-Residence at Dalhousie University's  Medical Humanities Program.  He has published several collections of poetry, including Loyalty Management which won the 2008 Toronto Book Award. His most recent book is Left for Right (Pedlar Press, 2012).  

Some of the strands in Oana Avasilichioaei’s work traverse textual architecture, orality and multilingualism (We, Beasts, 2012, http://jacket2.org/commentary/oana-avasilichioaei’s-beasts ), geography and public space (feria: a poempark, 2008,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=yQ11gBLPCWw ), translation and collaborative performance (Expeditions of a Chimæra, co-written with Erín Moure, 2009). Living in Montreal, she has also translated poetry from the Romanian of Nichita Stănescu (Occupational Sickness, 2006) and from the Quebecois French of Louise Cotnoir (The Islands, 2011). Recent projects include “The Mapping Issue,” co-edited with Kathleen Brown for Dandelion Magazine (http://www.the37series.ca/#mapping), writing commentaries on Canadian experimental poetry for Jacket2 (http://jacket2.org/commentary/oana-avasilichioaei) and transforming text into sound work (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Avasilichioaei.php).