Linda M. Morra is a Full Professor (Bishop's University) and a former Craig Dobbin Chair (2016-2017). Her book, Unarrested Archives, was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in 2015. She prepared an edition of Jane Rule's memoir, Taking My Life, shortlisted for the international LAMBDA prize in 2012.

A long-time Montrealer, Marianne Ackerman was born in Belleville, Ontario. She has an MA in drama from the University of Toronto and studied French at the Sorbonne. Her three published novels include the best-seller Jump. A frequently produced playwright, her comedy Triplex Nervosa, the first of the Triplex Nervosa Trilogy, premiered at the Centaur Theatre in 2015.