Renee Norman is an award-winning poet, a writer and a teacher. Her first volume of poetry, True Confessions, was awarded the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry in 2006. Her second book of poetry, Backhand Through the Mother, was published in 2007. Renee completed her graduate work at UBC and received the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation, which was published as a book by Peter Lang, New York. She has received several poetry and non-fiction prizes for her work. Currently Renee is a literacy consultant for Vancouver School Board. She lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

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Carl Leggo is poet and professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where he has been happily researching, writing and teaching since 1990. His essays, poetry and fiction have been published in journals across North America. HIs most recent book, a sequence of short fiction and poetry, is Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey (2012). His earlier poetry collections include Come-By-Chance (2006); View From My Mother’s House (1999) and Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill (1994). He lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

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