OUR BOOKS We've established a solid fiction list over the years, which includes established writers such as Nancy Huston with The Goldberg Variations as well as newcomers like Susan Zettell (Night Watch, Holy Days of Obligation), Linda Leith (Birds of Passage, The Tragedy Queen), Valmai Howe (The Dreams of Zoo Animals, The Loneliness of Angels), Denise Roig with her debut collection A Quiet Night and a Perfect End, Julie Keith, whose book premiere, a collection of short fiction entitled The Jaguar Temple, was shortlisted for the 1995 Governor General's Award, and Alison Preston (The Rain Barrel Baby). And that's only the women. Our male fiction writers include John Brooke (The Voice of Aliette Nouvelle), Lesley Choyce (The Ecstasy Conspiracy), and Michael Mirolla (The Formal Logic of Emotion) And then, there's our Aurora Award-winning alternate history collection, Arrowdreams, which includes some of Canada's best speculative fiction writers, including Edo Van Belkom, Michael Skeet, Dave Duncan, Nancy Kilpatrick, Glenn Grant, Allan Weiss, Laurent McAllister, Eric Choi, Paula Johanson and Derryl Murphy. We also have some exciting nonfiction on our list, including two successful collections from Joe Fiorito, Comfort Me With Apples (since reissued by M&S) and Tango on the Main, Scatter the Mud: A Traveller's Medley a collection of travel pieces by Nancy Lyon, Homo Erectus and Other Popular Tales of True Romance, an exploration of the modern male's dilemma by Joel Yanofsky, and The Yellowknife Journal, a beautiful facsimile reproduction of a rare birch bark journal recorded in the winter of 1802 by a trader for the North West Company. In the year 2000 George Amabile joined Signature as our new poetry editor. Poets included on our list include Carolyn Marie Souaid, whose two collections Swimming into the Light and October were both shortlisted for the QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Award, Catherine Hunter, whose Latent Heat won the Manitoba Book of the Year Award, Endre Farkas and Ken Norris, whose Howl Too, Eh? was a bestseller, Susan Gillis with Swimming Among the Ruins, and Richard Sommer with Fawn Bones and The Shadow Sonnets. We're also one of handful of presses in the country that publish drama. Our drama list includes plays by Marianne Ackerman, Robert Astle, Kit Brennan, Dave Carley, Colleen Curran, Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Maureen Hunter, Bruce McManus, Janet Munsil, Harry Standjofski, Allan Stratton, Dianne Warren and another forty playwrights who have been included in our drama anthologies . With roots in Montreal, we've always been interested in how the two cultures of this country communicate and we've published quite a number of translations to bring authors who are well known in the French community to English readers, often for the first time. Our translated authors include Claude Beausoleil, winner of countless major prizes in French, Monique LaRue, whose novel True Copies was the winner of the prestigious Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal in French, Pierre Nepveu, whose novel Still Lives was published in English translation almost simultaneously with his winning the Governor General's Award for Poetry in French, and was subsequently a finalist for the John Glassco Translation Prize, Gérald Tougas, another Governor General's Award-winner, whose collection of short stories Any Mail? received a special honorable mention for the Glassco Prize, and Louis Gauthier, whose Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey was also shortlisted for the Glassco Prize. A number of our own authors have gone into translation as well. Carolyn Marie Souaid's Swimming into the Light and Denise Roig's A Quiet Night and a Perfect End have both been published in French and Linda Leith's The Tragedy Queen is forthcoming. Julie Keith and Valmai Howe's books they have published with our press have also been translated into French and German.