Dolores Dallas is Cowichan First Nation from Duncan, BC, now living in Vancouver, the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, the Squamish, the Musqueam, and the Tseil-Waututh. Dallas is active in her community in the Downtown Eastside and is a proud Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother. Dallas studied at Spirit Song, a Native theatre school, Native Earth Theatre School, and En'owkin International School of Creative Writing and Fine Arts and has worked with Full Circle Theatre, Vancouver.

Michelle Poirier Brown is an internationally published poet and performer, currently living in Lak??anan territory (Victoria, BC). She co-founded the Indigenous Arts and Research Fellowship at the University of Victoria's Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, where she also facilitated reconciliation dialogues. She is an active citizen of the Métis Nation of BC and of Greater Victoria. Her poem Wake won PRISM international's Earle Birney Prize in 2019. Other poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and Michelle's debut poetic memoir You Might Be Sorry You Read This is forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press in 2022.