Born in Montreal, poet and essayist Louise Warren has published more than twenty-five books, among these the collection Anthologie du présent (les éditions du passage, 2012). Her essays offer a reflection on the arts and the creative process, and her body of work includes many artists' books. She participates regularly in international conferences and festivals and has been the recipient of numerous prizes and honours. Her most recent essay, Apparitions: Inventaire de l'atelier, was published by Nota bene. A special issue of Cahiers littéraires Contre-jour (number 28) is devoted to her work.

Poet and translator Karen McPherson lives in Oregon where she is an editor in the Airlie Press publishing collective. Her poems and translations have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. A chapbook of her poetry, Sketching Elise, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. A professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Oregon, she has published two critical monographs: Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories (Princeton UP, 1994) and Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing (McGill-Queen's UP, 2006).