Paul Desjardins is a retired school teacher who turned to writing and photography as a hobby. Several magazines, including BC Magazine, Okanagan Life, North of 50, and Airlines, to mention a few, have featured his stories of western Canadian history and bird photography. "I find composing limericks to be a natural extension of my love for writing, especially if it involves those wacky and wonderful characters of the natural world," Paul suggests. Currently, he lives in West Kelowna, BC, with his wife, Anita, and their two cats.

As a young boy, Doug Desjardins was fascinated with the animation and character development coming from the studios of Walt Disney. Consequently, a keen interest in graphic design soon emerged. “I just enjoy drawing,” he says. Currently working as a personal trainer, Doug lives in Vancouver, BC, with his wife, Margot, and their cat, Bella.

Melanie Eastley grew up on the Prairies and earned a degree in Visual Communications from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary.  She has  worked as a freelance and contract designer for the last 30 years and has credits as designer and illustrator in numerous books from several publishers. After spending too many winters in Alberta, she and her husband decided to live out a dream and move to Sechelt B.C.

Jennifer Fraser lives in Alberta with her husband and two children.  She graduated from Red Deer College with a diploma in Costume Cutting and Construction.  Not one to stay still, she has worked in wardrobe departments for theatre and film, instructs downhill skiing and works with children in the education system.  Jennifer loves to be active outside, especially around the ocean.  She attributes her children and the outdoors as the inspiration for her writing.

Wiliam Gelbart was born in Poland and came to Canada in 1974. After 25 years with TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, he retired to start MW Book Publishing. While most of his work appears in scientific publications, with his strong interests in literature, history and art Gelbart occasionally strays into other fields of writing. Gelbart is currently working on children's books introducing elements of science and technology into amusing stories.  He lives in Garden Bay, BC.

Bartosz Mieczysławski lived in Mission, BC, Canada  until his death in 2004. He left his birthplace, Łódź , Poland , in 1981. For many years Mieczysławski combined his science career with poetry, initially writing in Polish and later in English. Mieczysławski lost all his family during WW2 and survived both a concentration camp and the oppression of the totalitarian Communist regime of post-war Poland. It is these traumatic impressions of his youth that shaped his work.

Włodzimierz Milewski started "illustrating" books at the age of two – though now he prefers to do it before the book is printed. He illustrates and designs books in the spirit of traditional children’s books; after all traditional illustrated books have delighted many generations of children and adults alike. Włodzimierz Milewski was born in Warsaw , Poland and came to Canada in 1974.

 Marina Sonkina was born in Moscow, Russia. She taught literature and linguistics at Moscow State University till she escaped - with two then small sons and two suitcases - the Soviet Union. It took her more than a decade to settle into English before she dared to brave its waters with pen in hand. She lived in Toronto and Montreal where she worked as a CBC producer and broadcaster, documentary film researcher and translator. She taught Humanities at Dawson and Vanier College in Montreal and now shares her time between teaching at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia as well as writing. She has published five collections of short stories (with MW Books and with Guernica Editions), and three children's books.  Her latest book "Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border" was published in 2023

Marina lives in Vancouver.

Oswald De Vere was born in 1933 in Germany . In 1939, just before the outbreak of WW2, he was sent to the United Kingdom where he grew up - never to see his family again.  He came to Vancouver, Canada in the late  1950s and worked as a photographer and a journalist, saving money for his university education. Oswald returned to BC after completing his studies in Berkeley, California . He lived in Victoria , BC until his death in 2007.

Ray Wood claims he is Welsh. He once explored the spine of Africa on a Vespa scooter. He published his debut short story when he was a first year apprentice in a steel works. He has taught mathematics and run a wilderness expedition outfit. A prolific inventor of marine and off-road equipment he is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.

With his wife Robyn, he sails a 37 foot sloop and visits far-flung corners of the world using an elderly Australian built Land Rover. They live in a heritage grocery store in West Vancouver and share the space with an African Grey parrot and an unsociable Bengal cat.