The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christakos, Antonio D'Alfonso, Christopher Doda, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Keith Garebian, Ellen S. Jaffe, Steven Laird, John B. Lee, Malca Litovitz, Laura Lush, Joseph Maviglia, Steve McOrmond, Merle Nudelman, John O'Neill, John Oughton, Ruth Panofsky, Gianna Patriarca, B.W. Powe, Patria Rivera, Julie Roorda, Stuart Ross, Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Adam Sol, Sheila Stewart, Pasquale Verdicchio, and Paul Vermeersch.

Elana Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry with Guernica: Birdheart (2001), Mask (2003), You Speak to Me in Trees (2006), winner of the 2008 F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry, and Startled Night. Elana is also co-author with the late poet, Malca Litovitz, of Slow Dancing: Creativity and Illness, Duologue and Rengas (2008). A collection of short essays on contemporary poems, titled Implicate Me, was released with Guernica in 2010. Elana has taught English as a Second Language at York University in Toronto and at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently divides her time between writing, editing, and facilitating therapeutic community art.