MARIANNE APOSTOLIDES is an award-winning author of eight books, which have been translated and published in over a dozen countries. Her books include I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in Science Fiction), Deep Salt Water, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2012), and Swim. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winner of the K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Apostolides grew up in suburban New York and lives in Toronto, Canada.

CATHERINE MELLINGER is a mixed media and analog collage artist whose works find inspiration in the ideas originated by the feminist artists of the Dada period as well as the early Surrealists, lending to the exploration of dichotomy; real and unreal, beauty and trauma. Mellinger's works have been published in literary magazines, and she has been commissioned by musicians, writers and private collectors. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and son.