Laurie Ricou is Professor Emeritus at UBC, where he taught Canadian Literature and Environmental Studies.
He coached girls’ and women’s soccer from 1979 to 2014. In 2012 he was honoured as the British Columbia Soccer Association’s Youth Coach of the Year. Ricou lives in Vancouver and is the author of six books.

Andreas Schroeder is the author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, journalism and literary criticism. His books have won or been shortlisted for many awards including the Governor-General’s Award, the Sealbooks First Novel Award, the Stephen Leacock Award, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction and the Red Maple Award. For his literary journalism he was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award, and won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Best Investigative Journalism Award. He received an Honourary Doctorate of Letters from the University College of the Fraser Valley in 2002.

Schroeder currently holds the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction in the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program. He lives in Roberts Creek on BC’s Sunshine Coast with his wife Sharon Oddie Brown.

Visit Andreas at his website at www.apschroeder.com.