Hannah Claus is a mixed media artist and a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has exhibited in Toronto, Ottawa and New Brunswick. In 1997, she traveled to Madagascar as an artist participant in the Jeux de la Francophonie. Her work often examines cultural issues involving her colonial Canadian heritage and her family's Mohawk past.

Angela Inglis born was in 1964 in Calgary, Alberta and has lived in various places throughout Canada and the U.S. She returned to Calgary in 1989; she graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1994. She is a co-founder of the Untitled Art Society, a studio collective in Calgary. Inglis has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Alberta and in Prague in July 1999. Inglis is represented by the Trepanier Baer Gallery in Calgary.

Sally McKay spent most of her childhood in rural southwestern Ontario. She received her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and moved to Toronto in 1991, where she continues to live and work as an artist, writer and transportation activist. She is co-editor of (I)Lola and an active member of ARC (Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists).

Grant McConnell is a painter who lives in Saskatoon. He has exhibited across Canada and abroad, and teaches studio and art history at St. Peter's College and through the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

Alison Norlen was born in Winnipeg in 1962. She received her B.F.A. Honours from the School of Art, University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.F.A. from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1989. Norlen has participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada and elsewhere. She currently teaches at the School of Art, University of Manitoba.

Steve Venright lives in Toronto, and is the author of four books of short prose, including (I)Straunge Wunder[sic] (Tortoiseshell and Black, 1996) and the forthcoming (I)Spiral Agitator (Coach House Books, 1999). He is the founder of Torpor Vigil Industries, a vulgar attempt to transform life on earth and trigger the rapture.

Mary Anne Barkhouse was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father was in the R.C.M.P. and her mother is a member of the Kwakiutl First Nation, giving her a unique perspective on history and current affairs. Barkhouse is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and has exhibited her work across North America. She currently lives with two terriers in Minden, Ontario.