Sina Queyras (they/them) is the author of the poetry collections, MxT, Expressway and Lemon Hound. Their work has been nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and won The Friends of Poetry Award from Poetry Magazine, The AM Klein Award for Poetry, a Lambda, the Pat Lowther Award, a Pushcart Prize and Gold in the National Magazine Award. Their first novel, Autobiography of Childhood was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2005, they edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books. They are founding editor of Lemon Hound. They have taught Creative Writing at Rutgers, Haverford and Concordia University in Montreal where they currently reside.

Stephanie Bolster (she/her) has published four books of poetry, the most recent of which, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. Work from her current manuscript, Long Exposure, was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’s and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998 and was translated into French (Pierre Blanche). Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and co-editor of Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and grew up in Burnaby. She lives in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, located on the Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) territory of Skaniatara:ti.