Anakana Schofield has a background in theatre and film, working in both fields in Ireland before moving to Canada. She writes fiction, essays, and literary criticism, and her writing appears in the London Review of Books, The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, The Globe and Mail, and the Vancouver Sun. She has performed her own one-woman play, Je ne parle pas Français, and continues to be involved in performance art collaborations. Her debut novel, Malarky (biblioasis), a fresh and original portrait of rural Irish life, is getting raves from reviewers and readers alike. Schofield now calls Vancouver BC her home.

Daniel Allen Cox

 
Daniel Allen Cox is a writer and columnist whose work has been celebrated by readers and critics for its edge and intelligence. His novel Shuck (2008) was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Krakow Melt was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, ReLit Award, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, and will soon be published in Turkish as part of an underground literature series. His new novel, Basement of Wolves (Arsenal Pulp), is a darkly funny story of a film script gone wrong and a no-longer-young gay actor staging his own form of resistance. Cox lives in Montreal PQ.