Sue Chenette is a poet and classical pianist who grew up in northern Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, Great Britain, and France. She is the author of three chapbooks: A Transport of Grief; Solitude in Cloud and Sun, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001. Her full-length collection, Slender Human Weight, was launched by Guernica Editions in December 2009.

Kye Marshall is a professional composer, cellist and jazz and free improvisor with five CD’s to her credit: Standard Time (jazz standards), Say When and Winter’s End (original jazz compositions), In The Moment and Chiaroscuro,: (spontaneous compositions with Thomas Baker on piano). Her compositions have been performed locally in such venues as the Glenn Gould Studios, RCM, Harbourfront, NY Performing Arts Centre, CMC, Music Gallery, TVO, on CBC Radio and in the US and Austria. She has written a Concerto for Bass Trombone and for different combinations of instruments including string orchestra, string quartet, brass quintet, piano and choir. Kye has also written four film scores, thirty-two jazz compositions, as well as for theatre, dance and CBC radio drama.

Alison Watt is a writer and visual artist who paints and teaches in her studio on Protection Island, Nanaimo, BC. Her first book, set on a remote seabird colony, is a moving memoir about life and death in the human and natural world; The Last Island – a Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction in 2002. In her poetry collection Circadia, which came out in 2005 with Pedlar Press, poems unfold in a backdrop of light cycles, tides, and weather, and attempt to capture the lyricism of the processes of nature. Some are set in an Amazon Research station and explore taxonomy and diversity. In others, she moves past nature as a backdrop to delve more deeply into its inner, often invisible workings (photosynthesis, pollination…) to release them from the language of science.