Michelle Berry is the author of two critically acclaimed short-story collections, How to Get There from Here and Margaret Lives in the Basement, and the novel What We All Want. Her second novel, Blur, will be published in Canada in Spring 2002. Both novels will be published in the UK. She is also the author of a collaborative art/fiction book called Postcard Fictions.

Natalee Caple is the author of two books of fiction, The Heart is its Own Reason and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World, and a book of poetry, A More Tender Ocean. Caple has achieved international attention and critical praise for her fiction and poetry.