Terence Young	Susan Stenson	Bill Stenson
Erin Egan	Janice McCachen	Susan Robinson
	Linda Moran

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terence Young

 

Terence Young lives in Victoria, B.C., where he teaches English and creative writing at St. Michaels University School. He is a co-founder of The Claremont Review, an international literary journal for young writers, and is also a 2008 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence. His first book of poetry, The Island in Winter (Signal Editions, 1999), was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Since then, he has published a collection of stories, Rhymes With Useless (Raincoast, 2000), a novel, After Goodlake’s, which received the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2005, and, a second collection of poetry, Moving Day (Signature Editions, 2006), which has been nominated for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for 2006. A second collection of fiction, The End of the Ice Age, has recently been released from Biblioasis Press.

 

 

 

Susan Stenson

 

Susan Stenson's work has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines, most recently, Fiddlehead, Geist, and The Malahat Review, on CBC radio and on buses through the Poetry in Transit program, and in many anthologies, including, Threshold: 6 Women, 6 Poets, edited by Rona Murray. A contest magnet, Stenson’s poems have won several contests such as the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Prize, the Al Purdy contest, Arc, Sub-terrain and This magazines’ annual contests. Sono Nis Press published, Could Love a Man, (2001), followed by My Mother Agrees With the Dead (Wolsak and Wynn, 2007), voted best poetry book in Victoria. Her current work, Nobody Move, (Sono Nis 2010) celebrates Susan’s great loves: family, friends, the human heart. Susan lives and works in Victoria. She’s been co-editing The Claremont Review, Canada’s thriving literary magazine of teen poetry, art and fiction since 1992 and she teaches English and creative writing in Saanich School District and at St. Michael’s University School. Her students, youth and adult, have won provincial, national and international prizes. She has been a proud faculty member of Sage Hill’s Writing Colloquium since 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Stenson

 

Bill Stenson’s debut collection of short stories, Translating Women, garnered national recognition and elicited praise from reviewers. His short fiction has been nominated for the Journey Prize, and the Western Fiction Magazine award. His work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada and been read on the CBC. Svoboda is Stenson’s first novel. His next novel, The Half Life of Tommy Moss is forthcoming. He writes, sells real estate and teaches in Victoria, BC, and is the co-founder and co-editor of The Claremont Review.

 

 

 

 

 

Erin Egan

 

Erin was published in The Claremont Review when she was in high school, and now she gets to help edit this amazing magazine! She teaches high school English in Victoria, British Columbia and writes and sings in her spare time.

 

 

 

 

 

Janice McCachen

 

Janice McCachen is an English teacher and writer in Victoria, B.C. She has published short fiction in various Canadian literary journals including The Antigonish Review and The New Quarterly. She joined The Claremont Review editing team in 1993 and continues to be awe-struck and humbled by the talent and the courage of the young writers whose submissions she looks forward to reading in preparation for each issue. In her spare time she kayaks to small islands without cell phone reception in order to practice the dying art of concentration.

 

 

 

 

 

Susan Robinson

 

Susan Robinson is a teacher of mathematics and a reader of stories. One of her favourite moments in Calculus class was watching her students learn to crochet in order to construct hyperbolic space. She lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C., with her husband, two daughters, dog, cat and eight chickens, ever hopeful that her garden will produce more raspberries.

When you are asked to e-mail your accepted submission to the editor before it gets put into published form, you can now put a face to the e-mail. Susan has the mammoth task of type-setting each issue of the magazine to put it into the format which gets sent to the printer.

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Moran, Managing Editor

 

Linda retired from Claremont Secondary School in 2009, where she worked as a Receptionist for seven years. During those years she always enjoyed helping out with behind the scenes tasks for The Claremont Review, so when the position of Managing Editor became available she jumped at the chance to become more involved. For the past year she has had the pleasure of leisurely sitting at her computer (often in her pj's), answering e-mails, constructing spreadsheets and generally trying to keep the editors organized.