Contributors to October AE-Extra
[Issue 1/2006]

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over fifteen hundred times in 16 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Jeffrey Paris spent three years as a full-time Instructor at the California State University at Bakersfield before taking up his current position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, where he writes and teaches in the areas of political philosophy, subcultural studies, and critical and postmodern theories.  He is Managing Editor of Radical Philosophy Review, Associate Editor of Peace Review, and Associate Editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social Justice and Activism.  He co-edited (with William S. Wilkerson) New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and is currently at work on a manuscript entitled After Rawls.

Tonya Callaghan is a graduate student in the Master’s of Education program with the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her area of specialization is Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education. She has proposed to write a thesis on the topic of the Catholic institutionalization of homophobia in Canadian Catholic secondary schools. The holder of two Bachelor degrees from the University of Calgary, Tonya Callaghan has enjoyed a varied career of teaching secondary English with over ten years of national, international, rural, and urban assignments.

Madeline Sonik holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Journalism; she is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education at the University of British Columbia.  Her book-length works include the children’s novel Belinda and the Dustbunnys (Hodgepog Press), the novel Arms (Nightwood Editions), and the short story collection Drying the Bones (Nightwood Editions).  Her dissertation uses a Jungian framework to explore issues of voice and voicelessness in Creative Writing teaching and practice.

S. Purcell Woodard, Ph.D., is the associate director for both the McNair Program and Early Identification Program at the University of Washington.  Both programs serve undergraduates who are low income, underrepresented, and/or first-generation college; both programs prepare these students to pursue and excel in post-baccalaureate education.  Steve’s poetry has also appeared earlier in this and other journals, as well as in the recent book, Becoming multicultural educators:  Personal journey toward professional agency.