Gerry Shikatani is a writer based in Toronto who has worked across the textual, visual, and aural domains, from performance to experimental film, since 1970. He is the co-editor of Paper Doors (Coach House) and has created documentaries and commentaries for CBC Radio and published articles on travel, sports, and gastronomy across Canada and abroad. An international dining critic and commentator and expert on Spain, Shikatani is the founding director of a writers' retreat in Granada, Spain. He holds Spain's Official Cross in the Order of Civilian Merit granted by The King of Spain. Eric Schmaltz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the author of poetry books I Confess (Coach House Books) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), and the academic monograph Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). He is editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press). He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

Gerry Shikatani is a writer based in Toronto who has worked across the textual, visual, and aural domains, from performance to experimental film, since 1970. He is the co-editor of Paper Doors (Coach House) and has created documentaries and commentaries for CBC Radio and published articles on travel, sports, and gastronomy across Canada and abroad. An international dining critic and commentator and expert on Spain, Shikatani is the founding director of a writers' retreat in Granada, Spain. He holds Spain's Official Cross in the Order of Civilian Merit granted by The King of Spain. Eric Schmaltz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the author of poetry books I Confess (Coach House Books) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), and the academic monograph Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). He is editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press). He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

Gerry Shikatani is a writer based in Toronto who has worked across the textual, visual, and aural domains, from performance to experimental film, since 1970. He is the co-editor of Paper Doors (Coach House) and has created documentaries and commentaries for CBC Radio and published articles on travel, sports, and gastronomy across Canada and abroad. An international dining critic and commentator and expert on Spain, Shikatani is the founding director of a writers' retreat in Granada, Spain. He holds Spain's Official Cross in the Order of Civilian Merit granted by The King of Spain. Eric Schmaltz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the author of poetry books I Confess (Coach House Books) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), and the academic monograph Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). He is editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press). He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).