Carol Bruneau is the acclaimed author of three short story collections, including A Bird on Every Tree (2017), and five other novels. Her first novel, Purple for Sky, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Bookclub favourite Glass Voices (2007), was a Globe and Mail Best Book. A Circle on the Surface (2018), won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award. Her reviews, stories and essays have appeared nationwide and two of her novels have been published internationally. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband and their dog and badass cat.

Sue Carter is editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's publishing trade magazine, and a contributor to the Toronto Star's books and visual arts sections. She has received several editorial prizes for her cultural writing and, in 2019, was nominated for an Alan Slaight Prize for Journalism.