Tom Prime is the author and co-author (with Gary Barwin) of several poetry chapbooks. His debut solo collection, Mouthfuls of Space, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2021, with Anvil Press. His writing has appeared in Brave New World, Carousel, Ditch, Fjords Review, The Rusty Toque, Lana Turner, Vallum, and Watch Your Head, among others. He currently lives in London, Ontario, where he is completing his PhD in English at the University of Western Ontario.

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist and has published 25 books of fiction, poetry, and numerous chapbooks. His latest books include For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New And Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco, and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy. His national bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.