Louise Marois is an acclaimed writer and artist born in Montreal in 1960. Recognized for her poetic works many times over, her first collection of poetry received the Jacqueline-Déry-Mochon prize and she has twice been a finalist for the Governor General Literary Award. She lives and works in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where she dedicates her time to writing and artmaking.

Darby Minott Bradford is a poet and translator. They are the author of the hybrid poetry collection Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books, 2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, and was a finalist for, among others, the Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General Literary Awards. Bradford's first translation, House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson (Brick Books, 2023), received the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award and John Glassco Translation Prize, and was shortlisted for the Governor General Literary Award for Translation. Their most recent book of poetry, Bottom Rail on Top, was a Raymond Souster Award finalist. Bradford lives and works in Tio'tia: ke (Montreal) on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá ka Nation.