Susan McCaslin is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including At the Mercy Seat, Flying Wounded, The Altering Eye and Common Longing, and the editor of the anthologies A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetry and Spiritual Practice: Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets. She lives in Langley, B.C. with her husband and daughter.

Leanne McIntosh was born in Regina Saskatchewan. Her first book of poems, The Sound the Sun Makes, was published by Oolichan Books in 2003. Liminal Space is her second full length collection of poems. Leanne’s work has appeared in literary journals and chapbooks. She is a founding member of The Island Women’s Poets. She has lived in Nanaimo, BC for thirty-five years and now spends several months of the year in Montreal.