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Daniel Canty was born in the suburb of Lachine, Quebec, and now lives in Montreal. His works circulate freely between literature and publishing, film and theatre, contemporary art and design. He is the author of a novel, Wigrum (La Peuplade, 2011; Talonbooks, 2013) and a history of automata in American literature, Êtres artificiels (Liber, 1997). He has devised three award-winning collaborative books: Cité selon (Le Quartanier, 2006), on the city; La Table des Matières (Le Quartanier, 2007), on eating; and Le Livre de Chevet (Le Quartanier, 2009), on sleeping. He has also translated books of poetry by Stephanie Bolster, Erin Moure, Michael Ondaatje, and Charles Simic. His recent exhibition, Bucky Ball (Artexte, 2014), constructed a memory theatre out of the ghost of Buckminster Fuller and the phantom landscape of Expo 67. Canty studied literature and the philosophy of science in Montreal, publishing in Vancouver, and film in New York and Montreal. He teaches dramatic writing at L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada and event design at Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2014, he completed a six-month residency at the Studio du Québec in London. His website is danielcanty.com. Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet-artist, sound performer, and translator interested in polyphonic poetics, phonotophes (intermediary spaces between words, sounds, and images), and states of listening. Her seven poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012, winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry), Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), and Eight Track (finalist for the 2020 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry). Avasilichioaei has translated eleven books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, including Bertrand Laverdure's Readopolis (Book*hug, 2017, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation) and Wigrum (runner-up for the 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada; winner of the 2012 Grafika Grand Prize for Typography). Other distinctions include the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.
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