Carl Wilson's recent book about Celine Dion and mass culture, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Continuum Books, 33 1/3 Series), has been praised by the London Telegraph, Bookforum, New York Magazine, The New Yorker's Alex Ross, The Washington Post and The Onion, among many others. His work appears regularly in The Globe and Mail and on his own site Zoilus.com, among many other publications, including The New York Times, Slate and Blender. He contributed to the State of the Arts edition of Coach House Books' uTOpia series. Carl also helps run Trampoline Hall, the monthly non-expert lecture series at Sneaky Dee's, and recently co-curated two concerts of music in tribute to Toronto's concrete architecture with the Music Gallery.

Dani Couture is a poet and fiction writer. Her first book of poetry, Good Meat was published by Pedlar Press in 2006; she has a second
collection of poetry forthcoming from Pedlar in 2010, and she is working on a novel. She is also the founder and creator of Animal Effigy (www.animaleffigy.com).

Derek McCormack's most recent novel is The Show That Smells (ECW Press, 2008). His previous novel, The Haunted Hillbilly (ECW Press, 2003) was named a best book of the year by both the Globe & Mail and the Village Voice, and was nominated for a Lambda Award for Best Gay Fiction. He is also the author of Christmas Days (Anansi, 2005), a history of Christmas in Canada. He writes a fashion column for the National Post newspaper. He lives in Toronto.

Nathaniel G. Moore is a Toronto-based writer and editor. He is the author of Bowlbrawl (Conundrum) and Let's Pretend We Never Met (Pedlar).