Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver, Canada. His short story, "Victory Girl," won the Storyteller Award, and his poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both is prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards.

Barbara Lehtniemi primarily resides in the fiction world inside her head and occasionally allows that to spill over to the page. She has published many pieces of non-fiction in several publications including The Voice magazine, The Review newspaper, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Maclean's. She won the 2018 Barbara Novak Award for Excellence in Personal Essay Writing. Barbara has a fondness for travel, used bookstores, and everyday absurdities. She lives on a windswept rural road in North Glengarry, Ontario.

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Julie Meier holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary. Her writing has been published internationally in several anthologies and on-line journals. Her story “These Walls” was shortlisted for the 2020 Edinburgh International Flash Fiction Award.

Dawn holds a BA in English from Queen’s University in Canada and is a member of the Canadian Authors Association, Canada Council for the Arts, and Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Her short fiction has appeared in The Main Review, Verandah Literary and Art Journal, Loud Coffee Press Literary Magazine, and the Canadian Authors Association’s Fifteen Stories High Short Story Anthology. Currently, she is querying her debut novel which is a finalist in the Novel Slices summer excerpt contest, 2021. You can learn more about Dawn on her website www.dawnmillerwriter.com and through social media Twitter @DawnFMiller1.

Jennifer was one of those kids who checked out thirty books at a time from the library. She also loved to write, imagining she might one day become an author. Her curiosity about the world led to a degree in Earth Science, then, following in her parents’ footsteps, Education. It wasn’t until life slowed during COVID isolation that she began writing fiction again. She loves telling stories about falling in love and other tales of the heart. Jennifer lives with her husband and two daughters in the beautiful Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada.

After suffering a Traumatic Brain Injury, Cheryl left the Canadian healthcare company she’d founded and returned to her first love, writing, as part of her recovery process. A Pushcart nominee, Cheryl’s fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in US, UK, and Canadian publications, including National Flash Fiction Day 2021- Flash Flood, Second Chance Lit, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Blank Spaces Magazine, Spider Road Press, Longridge Review, Nightingale & Sparrow, and others. Her second novel, gods Playground, was a 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition semi-finalist, and her various works have placed in nineteen competitions in 2019-21, most recently the shortlist of Five South’s 2021 Short Fiction Prize, semi-finalist River Styx 2021 Micro Fiction Contest, and semi-finalist Ruminate Magazine’s 2021 The Waking Flash Prose Prize. Cheryl has a MHSc Speech-Language Pathology and a HBSc Psychology. You can find her on twitter @cherylskorysuma

Lori Twining writes both fiction and nonfiction, with her stories winning awards in literary competition and appearing in several anthologies. She’s an active member of many writing groups: International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers of Canada, Romance Writers of America, Toronto Romance Writers, Writers’ Community of Simcoe County and Ascribe Writers. She’s a lover of books, sports and bird watching, and a hater of slithering reptiles and beady-eyed rodents. www.lvtwriter.com; Twitter @Lori_Twining.

Ronald Zajac was born and raised in Montreal, where he completed a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at McGill University. His work has previously been published in Matrix. He is a journalist at a daily newspaper in Brockville, Ontario; working the community desk reveals that, while the devil is in the details, God is in the stories they reveal. He is currently working on a novel and a short story cycle. He enjoys spending time with his family, posting nature shots on Instagram, and listening to classical music, an addiction he treats with healthy doses of jazz.