Carolyn Marie Souaid is the Montreal-based author of six books, including Swimming into the Light which won the David McKeen Award in 1996. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio and has been shortlisted for a number of awards including the A.M. Klein Prize and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has toured her work across Canada, in the U.S. and in Europe. Endre Farkas was born in Hungary. He escaped during the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and settled in Montreal. He has published eleven books of poetry and plays. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Slovenian and Turkish. He has read and performed widely in Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and has created pieces that have toured across the country and abroad. Blood is Blood, their collaborative videopoem, won first prize at the 2012 Zebra International Poetry Festival in Berlin.