Joanne Findon is a writer, editor and educator, with more than thirty years’ experience teaching university students in literature and creative writing courses. She is an experienced teacher and writing workshop leader, and an editor of both fiction and academic materials. She is a published author of several children’s books, and has specific expertise in children’s publishing.

She is a member of the Editors Association of Canada, https://editors.ca/directory/joanne-findon/

Tamsyn Riddle is a student in Concordia University’s Master of Arts in English-Creative Writing program, where she works as an Assistant for Concordia’s Writers Read series. She is a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) from Central European University and the University of Oviedo, and has previously worked for several non-profit organizations where she did grant-writing, research, writing, and editing.