Tanya Neumeyer is a member of the Toronto Poetry Project, a collective that aims to promote spoken word in Toronto and beyond. Her first book, Piecing It Together, was published this year by Thee Hellbox Press.

Billeh Nickerson is the author of two poetry collections: McPoems and The Asthmatic Glassblower, nominated for the Publishing Triangle Poetry Prize. A founding member of the performance troupe "Haiku Night in Canada," he is also the author of the humorous essay collection Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow. 

Kinga Nowak has been telling stories all her life. Then, at 22, she lost all her words to cancer. Kinga has spent almost seven years picking her story back up. In October, she stepped back up on stage at the monthly Toronto Poetry Slam held at the Drake.