Sheryda Warrener is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Floating is Everything. In 2017, she won the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize. She lives in Vancouver, where she’s a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at University of British Columbia and facilitates Artspeak Gallery’s Studio for Emerging Writers.

Ian Williams is the author of Personals, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize; Not Anyone’s Anything, winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are. His most recent book is the novel, Reproduction. He teaches at University of British Columbia.

Hoa Nguyen lives in Toronto where she teaches poetics and creative writing at Ryerson University, Bard College, Miami University and privately. She is the author of nine books and chapbooks, including Violet Energy Ingots, recipient of a 2017 Griffin Prize for Poetry nomination.

Heather Jessup teaches at Langara College in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam. Her first novel The Lightning Field was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her second book is This Is Not a Hoax: Unsettling Truth in Canadian Culture.

Jen Currin is the author of five books, including Hider/Seeker (stories) and the poetry collections School, which was a finalist for three awards, and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University in Surrey, BC.