Austin Clarke is a professor of literature and has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Williams, Duke, and the Universities of Texas and Indiana.
Kenneth J. Harvey’s novels have met with international critical acclaim and have won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Winterset Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and Italy’s Libro del Mare.
Shauntay Grant is an award-winning writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist and musician. She is Halifax's third Poet Laureate (2009/10), and she has shared her blend of poetry and music internationally at festivals and events.
Helen Humphreys is the author of four books of poetry, five novels, and one work of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her dog, Hazel.