CAROLINE ADDERSON is the author of five novels, two previous collections of short stories, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.

SHASHI BHAT is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts, and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth, a finalist for the Governor General's Award for fiction, and The Family Took Shape, a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her fiction has won the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and appeared in such publications as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize Stories. Shashi holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Cornell University. She lives in New Westminster, B.C., where she is the editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College.

AARON KREUTER is the author of four books, including the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award shortlisted poetry collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome. His other books are Arguments for Lawn Chairs, You and Me, Belonging, and Leaving Other People Alone (UAlberta Press). He lives in Toronto and teaches at Trent University.

SHAENA LAMBERT is the author of four works of fiction: Petra, Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. Her essay on her writing apprenticeship, “Monkey Business,” was recently featured in Off the Record (Bibliosasis): six Canadian women writers exploring how they became fiction writers. Petra won the 2021 Ethel Wilson Award from the BC and Yukon Book Prize and was a CBC best book of the year. She’s been a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Award, the Evergreen Award, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been anthologized four times in Best Canadian Stories, as well as in the Journey Prize Anthology, and published in The Walrus, Zoetrope All Story, Ploughshares, Toronto Life and other magazines. She’s at work on a new novel.