Candace Savage is the award-winning author of more than two dozen books. In 2022, she was awarded the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award. She lives in Saskatoon.

Michelle Good is a Cree writer, lawyer, and poet and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Her first novel, Five Little Indians, received numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award and Canada Reads 2022. Her essay collection, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada, was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award. Her second novel, Eliza Sunshine, will be published in 2026. She is a Member of the Order of Canada.