AMY JONES is the author of three novels, We're All in This Together, a national bestseller and finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour; Every Little Piece of Me, which was named a CBC Best Book of the Year; and the forthcoming Pebble and Dove. She is also the author of a collection of stories, What Boys Like. Her short fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as Longform's Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Hamilton.

DORETTA LAU is the author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? and the poetry chapbook Cause and Effect. She splits her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she is writing a comedic novel about an inept company struggling to open a theme park about death.

Born in Congo-Kinshasa, TÉA MUTONJI is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection, Shut Up You're Pretty, is the first title from Vivek Shraya's imprint, VS. Books. It was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the Trillium Book Award. Mutonji lives and writes in Toronto.