David Clink is the webmaster of poetrymachine.com, a resource for poets, and co-publisher, along with Myna Wallin, of believe your own press. His poetry has recently appeared in The Antigonish Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, and Grain Magazine. He will be celebrating his fifth chapbook titled, One Dozen (believe your own press).

John Barton's poetry books and chapbooks include: Asymmetries (Frog Hollow Press), Hypothesis (Anansi), Sweet Ellipsis (ECW Press), and Designs from the Interior (Anansi). He is co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Gay-Male Poetry. He has won three Archibald Lampman Awards, the Patricia Hackett Prize (Australia), and a CBC Literary Award. He lives in Victoria BC, where he is editor of The Malahat Review.

Louise Bernice Halfe Halfe (aka Sky Dancer) authored Bear Bones and Feathers (Coteau Books, 1994) and Blue Marrow (McClelland and Stewart, 1998) was nominated for a Governor General's Award. She was appointed Poet Laureate for the Province of Saskatchewan in the spring of 2005. She lives in Saskatoon.