Patty Osborne is the author of "The Academy of Motherhood," an essay in the book Bringing It Home, edited by Brenda Lea Brown. She writes two blogs, one of which is hosted at www.geist.com/blogs/pattyo and the other is at www.themudroom.ca. She is also a frequent contributor to Geist magazine.
Larissa Lai is the author of four novels: The Lost Century, The Tiger Flu (Lambda Literary Award winner), Salt Fish Girl, and When Fox is a Thousand, and three poetry books, Sybil Unrest (with Rita Wong), Automaton Biographies (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), and Iron Goddess of Mercy. She is also the winner of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, and an Astraea Foundation Award. Until 2022, she was the Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary where she directed the Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. In 2023, she will become the Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto..
Kate Braid is a poet, writer, and teacher. Her poetry books include Covering Rough Ground, To this Cedar Fountain, and Inward to the Bones, winner of the VanCity Book Award. Her essay "On Finding Sisterhood" appears in Bringing It Home, edited by Brenda Lea Brown.