Tom Osborne was one of the founding editors of the notorious Pulp Press Publishing Co. (now Arsenal Pulp Press) in the 1970s. Osborne is the author of two novels published by Anvil Press: Foozlers and Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit. He is also the author of several poetry collections: Under the Shadow of Thy Wings, 9 Love Poems, The Reamer's Car Club Blues Band Story, and Please Wait for Attendant to Open Gate (the latter two of which are now “rarerdquo; finds). His work has appeared in Geist, subTerrain, and 3-Cent Pulp. He was born on Baffin Island, spent his youth in Kamloops, BC and later years in Vancouver. He currently resides in Maple Ridge, BC.

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Steven Heighton is the author of nine books, including the bestselling novel, The Shadow Boxer (published in five countries); essays: The Admen Move on Lhasa; and poetry: 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptic and Stalin's Carnival. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. The Shadow Boxer was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 2000. Afterlands, his second novel, has just appeared with Knopf Canada and will soon appear in the USA, Britain and Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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