Felicia Mihali is a Montreal writer, translator and Éditions Hashtag publisher who studies French, English, Chinese and Dutch along with postcolonial literature and history. Her first novel, Le pays du fromage, was published in 2002 by XYZ Éditeur, followed by six other works written in French. In 2012, she published her first book in English, The Darling of Kandahar (LLP), which was nominated for Canada Reads as one the year's best novels. The must-read 2021 novel Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit appeared simultaneously in French as Une nuit d’amour à Iqaluit, and Judith Weisz Woodsworth’s translation of Le pays du fromage was published as A Ramshackle Home (LLP, 2023) and became a CBC Books top 40 title.

Born in Northern Ireland, Montreal writer Linda Leith has lived in London, Basel, Paris, Ottawa, and Budapest. She is the author of eight books, the most recent being The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (2021), and is the translator of Louis Gauthier's Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie (2000), nominated for the Glassco and QWF Translation Prizes in 2001). The founder of Blue Metropolis Foundation in 1998, she created Linda Leith Publishing in 2011, Salon .ll. in 2011, and Font magazine in 2021. Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal in 2012, she was named an officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to Canada in 2021.