Vanessa Moeller grew up on a ranch outside of Sussex, New Brunswick. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in 2007. Her first poetry collection, Sane Love’s Realm, will be published by Signature Editions in 2009. Her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Antigonish Review, CV2 and was awarded the WFNS’s Poetry Prize, UNB’s Bliss Carmen Poetry Prize and the Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Memorial Prize for fiction.

Stephanie Yorke has been living and writing in Fredericton for six years. Originally from Truro, Nova Scotia, she has published poems in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire and PRISM International, and has had three short plays produced by New Brunswick’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Company.

Argentinian-born, Fredericton-based Nela Rio is a retired professor from St. Thomas University. Her eight books, some published in both Spanish and English, have been finalists for 13 international literary awards, and her work has been included in major critical anthologies, as well as in university courses in Canada and USA. Her most recent book is Aquella luz, la que estremece/The Light that Makes Us Tremble.

Biff Mitchell, author of The War Bug (2005) and Murder by Burger (2008) lives in a hovel at the edge of the world. He has no life. He has no friends. Neighborhood children throw stones at his hovel. At night, Biff throws stones at his hovel. Someday Biff plans to write a book about a man who lives in a hovel that is stoned daily by neighborhood children who - through some magical twist of events - turn into snowmen. When Spring arrives, the man’s house melts.

Shane Neilson published his first book of poems, Exterminate My Heart, with Frog Hollow Press in 2008. His first trade book of poetry, Meniscus, will be published with Biblioasis in 2009. A memoir of his experiences as a physician, much of it published in the New Brunswick Reader, was published by Pottersfield Press in 2006. He was born in Oromocto and attended the University of New Brunswick before completing medical school at Dalhousie University.