Country: Canada

Gillian Wallace, Canada (b. 1958), poetry includes: Dinner Time. Wallace is a poet, editor and copy editor. She has a PhD in the psychology of religion, writing her thesis on original sin.

Patrick Warner, Ireland/Canada (b. 1963), poetry includes: The Bacon Company of Ireland, The Pig Narrative and Pig Lyric. Warner is a poet who emigrated from County Mayo, Ireland to Newfoundland in 1980. He has twice won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize and is the Rare Books, Archives and Special Collections Librarian for at the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Agnes Wetherald, Canada (1857-1940), poetry includes: The Whity Pink Pig, Prodigal Yet. Wetherald was a poet and a women’s issues columnist. Her poetry and essays appeared in a wide range of Canadian and American periodicals and she published six books of poetry.

George Whalley, Canada (1915-1983), poetry includes: Pig. Whalley was a Canadian poet, editor, scholar, biographer, and translator. Whalley obtained his Ph. D. from King’s College, London in 1950. He was a Rhodes scholar for Quebec in 1936. Whalley taught English at Queen’s University and was twice the head of the department.

Changming Yuan, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: 20 Imperial Imperatives. Changming Yuan [pen name of Yuan Wumin] is a poet, editor and publisher. An 8-time Pushcart nominee, Yuan has had poetry appearing in more than 800 literary journals/anthologies across 29 countries. He is also the Founding Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Pacific at Poetry Pacific Press (PP Press).