Born in Halifax and raised in Langley, BC, Billeh Nickerson is the author of the poetry collections The Asthmatic Glassblower, McPoems, Impact: The Titanic Poems, and his most recent, Artificial Cherry, as well as the humour collection Let Me Kiss It Better. He is also co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, and past writer-in-residence at both Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. He is also a silver medalist at the Canadian Gay Curling Championships, and Chair of the Creative Writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver.No Bio
PAMELA PAPARONE has illustrated several popular picture books, including Wake Up and Goodnight by Charlotte Zolotow, The Little School Bus by Carol Roth, and Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman by Reeve Lindbergh. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.