Lauren Carter graduated from Trent University in 1995. When she wasn't trapsing back and forth from B.C., she lived in Peterborough until 1998. She was the founding editor, with Scooter, of the short-lived Peterborough literary journal, Detour, and her work has been published in Prairie Fire, Adbusters, This Magazine, NOW Magazine and other publications. Her first book of poetry, Lichen Bright, was published by Sudbury-based Your Scrivener Press in September 2005.

Chris Eaton is a musician and novelist from Sackville, New Brunswick, currently living in Toronto. His first novel, The Inactivist, was published in 2003 by Insomniac Press. His CDs, recorded under the name Rock Plaza Central (www.rockplazacentral.com), regularly chart on campus radio. The Grammar Architect is his second novel. Chris Eaton appears courtesy Insomniac Press.

Rocco is based in Toronto. He has been published in over 30 magazines and literary journals in Canada and abroad, including Descant, Queens Quarterly, Event and Canadian Literature. He has appeared on radio specials in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and New York City and has been commissioned to write poetry by the CBC. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the arts ezine, Latchkey.net, and has finished a third collection of poetry, "Everything is Still Burning: 20 Travel Poems." He has edited and recently launched the anthology, "Looking Forward Looking Back", published by LyricalMyrical Press. Another collection, published by Fooliar Press, is expected in the fall of 2005.

Catherine Jenkins is a former Peterborough resident, now living and writing in Toronto. Insomniac Press published a poetry collection, blood, love & boomerangs, in 1999 and her first novel, Swimming in the Ocean in 2002. She's currently working on The Speed of Dark: Poems about Death and Electronics, as well as a comic novel, The Obsessions of Yoyo Zaza. While her previous books will be on sale this evening, she'll be reading selections from these new works.