Lucian Childs (he/him) is a writer whose debut novel-in-stories, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist Building Fires in the Snow (University of Alaska Press). His work appears in Grain, Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire, and other publications. He lives in Toronto, ON.

Alex Turner (1940?2019) (he/him) graduated from the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia and subsequently taught in Toronto at the Art Centre of the Central Technical School. After retirement, Alex turned to fiction, and his short fiction appears in the literary magazine Prairie Fire. Confluence is his debut novel.