MICHELLE BARKER is an award-winning author and a senior editor with The Darling Axe. Her most recent novel My Long List of Impossible Things (2020, Annick Press) is a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection. The House of One Thousand Eyes (2018, Annick Press) won numerous awards, including the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of A Year of Borrowed Men, finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Her poetry, short fiction and non-fiction have been published in literary reviews around the world. Michelle lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Find her at MichelleBarker.ca. ***** DAVID GRIFFIN BROWN is an award-winning short fiction writer with over twenty years' experience as an editor. He founded DarlingAxe.com in 2018, which has grown into a collective of industry experts, dev editors, line editors, proofreaders, and beta readers, with specialists across all genres. He holds a BA in anthropology and an MFA in creative writing. David lives in Victoria, Canada, on the traditional territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. Find him on Twitter/X under the handles @SeptimusBrown and @DarlingAxe.