Lorna Crozier's award-winning books of poetry include The Blue Hour of the Day and Inventing the Hawk. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies, including Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast.

Ian McAllister is a co-founder of the wildlife conservation organization Pacific Wild. He is an award-winning photographer and author of The Great Bear Wild and The Last Wild Wolves and his images have appeared in publications around the world. He and his wife, Karen McAllister, were named by Time magazine as one of the "Leaders of the 21st Century" for their environmental conservation work.