Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative works published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM international and Arc Poetry. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018. His new book, CREELAND, is out through Nightwood Editions. Hunt is an assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of British Columbia. 

Esmé is a Japanese-Irish settler, born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-waututh and Squamish peoples in so-called “Vancouver”. She is a second-year student in the Faculty of Arts currently studying in the English Honours program and minoring in Environment & Society. Her climate organization journey began with leading her high school’s climate strikes and has led her to organizing with Climate Justice UBC, coordinating the team for UBC Climate Hub’s Youth Climate Ambassadors Project and facilitating climate storytelling workshops for students of all ages. In her free time, she enjoys getting to know people, sharing stories, food, knowledge and community.