Barry McKinnon:  was born in 1944 in Calgary Alberta. In 1965, after two years at Mount Royal College, he went to Sir George Williams University in Montreal and took poetry courses with Irving Layton. He graduated in 1967 with a B.A. degree. In 1969, he graduated with an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and was hired that same year to teach English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George. His latest Trade Collections include: In the Millennium, Vancouver, New Star, 2009 and The Centre: Poems 1970 –2000, Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2004.

Don McKay:  has written around fifteen books of poetry and essays, all centered on the natural world. The early focus on birds has been complicated by another on rocks. He lives in St John’s NL.

Daphne Marlatt:  a Vancouver poet who spent some childhood years in Penang, Malaysia. Her recent titles include Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and  Now (2013) and Reading Sveva (2016), a poetic response to the work of the Canadian artist–poet Sveva Caetani. In 2017 Talonbooks published Intertidal: Collected Earlier Poems 1968 –2008, edited by Susan Holbrook.

Cameron Anstee:  lives and writes in Ottawa ON, where he runs Apt. 9 Press and holds a Ph.D. in Canadian Literature from the University of Ottawa. He is the author of one collection of poetry, Books of Annotations (Invisible Publishing, 2018), and the editor of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins (Chaudiere Books, 2015).