Jessica is a passionate advocate for community engagement and the power of storytelling. With a diverse background in public relations, graphic design and project management, she has dedicated her career to fostering connections and creating platforms for voices to be heard. She is a self-professed cinephile who lives with an excessive amount of plants and believes that gardening is the best thing next to therapy.

Ben Charland is a writer and creative communications consultant. He hosted the weekly podcast, What On Earth is Going On?, which featured guests such as poet and biographer Rosemary Sullivan, fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian actor Aurora Browne and many more. Ben lives in Whitehorse with his wife and two kids.

Beauty Deegan's rich and diverse linguistic journey traces its roots back to Zambia, her country of origin. Gifted with a profound love and aptitude for languages, Beauty has mastered an impressive array of seven indigenous Zambian languages, embodying the diverse culture of her homeland. Her linguistic pursuits didn't halt with her relocation to Ireland; instead, Beauty embraced the opportunity to immerse herself in the Gaelic language, enriching her linguistic repertoire and deep belonging, reflecting her diverse life experiences and deep cultural insights. While living in Northern Saskatchewan she was introduced to Métis culture. Currently residing in the Yukon with her family, Beauty is working on her debut poetry collection, exploring themes of racism, African culture, and belonging, reflecting her diverse life experiences and deep cultural insights.

John Firth was raised in Dawson City, Yukon, where the Klondike Gold Fields were his backyard and Tr'ochëk, a traditional Hän fish camp, was just down the road past Pierre Berton's childhood home. Dick North lived a block away and Robert Service's cabin was a 10-minute walk from his front door. John graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and worked as a Whitehorse-based freelance journalist, documentary film/audiovisual scriptwriter, editor and feature writer before his first non-fiction book was published in 1990. Since then he’s published five more books and collaborated on another three.

Erin has always loved a good story. From sharing local history as a walking guide, to exploring connections between people and places in Antarctica, she has spent her life pursuing the ways we use stories to share who we are and where we have been.

After some time spent in Academia, Erin turned to organizing and running community arts projects in the different places that she have lived - Aotearoa and Yukon. These projects generally reflected her interest in storytelling, the most recent of which have been a series of self-published zines. She is now working on a book exploring the strange world of grief.

She lives in Whitehorse with her husband, three kids, dog, and cat.

Although Silvia is not a writer, she has a passion for the word arts! Based out of Whitehorse, Yukon, she has 10 years of HR experience and keeps busy supporting clients as an independent HR Consultant. When she is not working, she loves to spend time with her husband, family, 3 fur babies and reading!! Silvia's love for literature spans across many genres and as long as she has a book with her, she will never be bored.

Hannah Tolman is a fiction writer and poet living on Ta’an Kwäch’än Territory. She has a degree in creative writing and English from Concordia University, where she focused her studies on ecopoetics, feminist theory and genre writing. She has numerous publications in literary zines around the globe and was a creator and workshop facilitator for the Salt Marsh Kin-Making Collective, an ecofeminist literary group based on Coast Salish Territory. She’s happy to settle down in Yukon where she can be an advocate for northern arts and culture while working on a young adult fantasy novel.