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Lawrence Hill's third novel was published in 2007 as The Book of Negroes in Canada (HarperCollins) and in the UK and as Someone Knows My Name in the USA (W.W Norton & Co.), Australia and New Zealand. It won the overall 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and the 2007 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Devyani Saltzman was born into a household of filmmakers but she became a writer, instead. She is the author of a highly acclaimed memoir documenting her relationship with her mother Deepa Mehta as she struggled to make the film Water. Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film has since been published internationally.

A long-time producer at CBC television, Tina Srebotnjak was a host of Midday, CBC TV’s noon-hour current affairs show, before becoming the host of Imprint, a conversation on books, authors and reading, which aired on TVOntario.
In 2007, Tina’s essay on her father was included in a collection of daughters writing about their fathers, called The First Man in my Life (Penguin Canada). Tina continues to nurture her love of books through her work for the Toronto Public Library, where her focus is promoting The Toronto Reference Library.

Michael Redhill’s most recent novel, Consolation, was long-listed for the Man Booker prize and won the Toronto Book Award. His first novel, Martin Sloane, was a finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Novel (Canada/Carribbean). Redhill is also the author of Fidelity, a collection of short stories and four poetry collections, including Asphodel, published in 1997 and Light-Crossing, published in 2001.

Elana Rabinovitch was born in Ottawa, raised in Montreal and received a BFA from Concordia University and an Honours Journalism degree from Carleton University. Her journalism career took her from a small weekly paper in Fort McMurray, Alberta to CBC Television’s The National and The Journal, to the CanWest Queen’s Park bureau, where she covered Ontario politics.

Molly Peacock is the Poetry Editor of the Literary Review of Canada and the author of six volumes of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems and the forthcoming The Second Blush (both published by W.W. Norton and Company). Peacock is also the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge,” produced by London, Ontario based Louise Fagan Productions. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.