Larissa Lai is the author of four novels: The Lost Century, The Tiger Flu (Lambda Literary Award winner), Salt Fish Girl, and When Fox is a Thousand, and three poetry books, Sybil Unrest (with Rita Wong), Automaton Biographies (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), and Iron Goddess of Mercy. She is also the winner of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, and an Astraea Foundation Award. Until 2022, she was the Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary where she directed the Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. In 2023, she will become the Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto..

Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing attends to ecological justice and decolonial love. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle; sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); beholden (with Fred Wah); current, climate; and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.