Lee Maracle is currently Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence for First Nations House, and Instructor in the Aboriginal Studies department at the University of Toronto.

Stacey Marley is an early years teacher and remembers as a child story time was a very special time in which stories and songs were told by her grandparents and other elders in the community.  She is a storyteller with the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program.

Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. Since her 2006 election as leader of the Green Party, she has led the party to an unprecedented level of support among Canadians.

Jacob McArthur Mooney is an editor with the always controversial web journal ThievesJargon.com and the founder of The Facebook Review. The New Layman’s Almanac is his first book.

Jennifer McLagan has more than twenty-five years of experience in the food world. She has worked as a chef in London and Paris, as well as her native Australia. Her writing has appeared in many magazines, including Gourmet and Fine Cooking. McLagan’s previous book, Bones, won a James Beard Award, a Gourmand World Cookbook Award and was a finalist in the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ Cookbook Awards. 

Stephanie Simpson McLellan is the author of The Chicken Cat which won both The Mr. Christie Book Award and The Ruth Schwartz Book Award. She is also the children's book reviewer for Today's Parent Magazine and owner of Neverending Stories, a mail order children’s book company.

Jeff Minthorn is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Verge magazine, a Canadian publication that explores opportunities to live, work, study, and volunteer overseas. Verge was recently nominated for a 2009 Utne Reader Independent Press Award for international coverage.

Award-winning chef Brian Morin has worked as a line cook, butcher, baker, chef garde manger, pastry chef, sous-chef, and executive chef in some of Canada’s finest kitchens. He is a Certified Chef de Cuisine, and represented Canada at the prestigious International Bocuse d’Or competition in France, where he placed tenth in the world. He is changing the way people think about beer in Canada’s first beer cuisine restaurant, beerbistro, located in downtown Toronto.

A. F. Moritz has written more than fifteen books of poetry and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. His most recent release, The Sentinel, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. He lives in Toronto and teaches at Victoria University.

Krystle Mullin has been performing slam poetry for 3 years and has already toured across Canada and the US. She recently represented Toronto in both the CBC Poetry Face-Off and the Women of the World Slam.