Calgary writer Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize), Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense (another Calgary Book Prize winner) and, most recently, Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers.

Eva has been a full time freelancer for the past fourteen years. Much of her work focuses on the environment, especially the intersection of wilderness and society.

Nicholas Hune-Brown is a Toronto-based magazine journalist who has been published in places like Toronto Life, Slate, The Walrus, The Guardian, Hazlitt, Reader’s Digest, The Believer, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star.

In 2009 Mr. DiCintio won the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for his article titled Walls of Shame published by Geist Magazine. It is an adaptation of a chapter from his book in progress about communities that live in the shadow of walls, fences and other "hard" barriers.

The 2006 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award was Gordon Laird, a Calgary freelance writer. Mr. Laird's successful submission, The Price of a Bargain, is a chapter from his new book, The Quest for Cheap and The Death of Globalization (updated title) published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd..