About the Author

Vladimir Azarov is an architect and poet, formerly from Moscow, who lives in Toronto. He has published Seven Lives, Broken Pastries, Mongolian Études, Night Out, Dinner With Catherine the Great, Imitation, Of Life and Other Small Sacrifices, The Kiss from Mary Pickford: Cinematic Poems, and Voices in Dialogue: Dramatic Poems – and with Barry Callaghan, Strong Words, translations in an English/Russian bilingual edition, of Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Pushkin, and Andrei Voznesensky.

Nina Bunjevac of Yugoslavia deals with themes of the immigrant experience, loneliness and nationalism. Her work has appeared in Mineshaft magazine (USA), Carte Blanche (Canada), Asiatroma (France), Giuda and InguineMah (Italy), Komikaze (Croatia), Balkan Women in Comics (Croatia) and Best American Comics (USA). Her debut collection of comics was Heartless (2012), followed by Fatherland (2014) which was released in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S., and translated for release in Germany, France, Czech Republic, Spain and Croatia.

Edward Kay is an award-winning Toronto-based writer with an eclectic background in live-action and animated television comedy, as well as fiction and journalism. Like two of his literary heroes, Roald Dahl and Oscar Wilde, Edward is one of the relatively few writers to have a successful career writing for both adults and children.