About the Author

Daphne Marlatt is the author of the novels Ana Historic and Taken. She has published numerous collections of poetry, including Steveston and The Given, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, she was appointed to the Order of Canada. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lynn Crosbie is a cultural critic, author, and poet. She teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto.