Matthew Tierney recently traveled by train across Canada, reading poems in various cities. His newest collection, The Hayflick Limit, places a premium on inventiveness while embracing extremes of fear, pain, cognition and time.

Wendy Tinkler is an Early Childhood Educator, musician and artist and is also on the executive of The Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children.

David Trahair is a Chartered Accountant who operates as a sole-proprietor, offering a broad range of accounting and tax services to a variety of businesses and individuals.

The current 2009 Toronto Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champion, Truth Is has been a Toronto International Poetry Slam finalist and a repeat participant in the Women Of the World International poetry slam and the When Sisters Speak spoken word concert.

Garth Turner is a former Member of Parliament and a bestselling author, syndicated columnist, business editor and radio and TV personality. His books include Greater Fool: The Troubled Future of Real Estate; 2015: After the Boom, The Strategy, The Defence and 2020: New Rules for the New Age.