Daphne Marlatt, who has spent most of her life living and writing on the West Coast, has played an important part in creating an alternative poetic line. Her previous poetry titles include Salvage, Ghost Works, Touch to My Tongue, and How Hug a Stone. She has also published two novels: Taken and Ana Historic. She now makes her home in Vancouver. Robert Minden is a photographer, storyteller and composer. After teaching sociology at several universities, he turned to the still camera for a more intuitive inquiry. The Steveston photographs soon followed. His recent photographs, a series on artists, accompanies his contemporary journey as an experimental musician/composer. He lives in Vancouver.