Rita Wilson is a writer, poet, teacher, mother, grandmother, and gardener who lives on the banks of the Caribou River in Nova Scotia. She's been published in:
Saltscapes,
Arc Poetry Magazine,
The Cumberland Review; and received the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She first discovered Elizabeth Bishop at Bishop's grandparent's home in Great Village, and immediately imagined that house as the perfect framework to introduce Bishop and her words to children and parents.
Emma FitzGerald was born in Lesotho to Irish parents, did most of her growing up in Vancouver, and calls E'se'katik (place of clams), also known as Lunenburg, home. She wrote and illustrated Hand Drawn Halifax, Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia's South Shore, Hand Drawn Vancouver, and has illustrated the award-winning EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street. When she isn't sketching, she enjoys dancing and getting lost in new places. emmafitzgerald.ca
