Andrea Routley was born in New Westminister and grew up in Pitt Meadows, Fort Langley, and Richmond. She is the editor of Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women (Caitlin Press, 2010). Her writing has appeared in journals and magazines such as The Malahat Review and Monday Magazine. In 2008 she was shortlisted for the Rona Murray Prize for Literature for her poem"For Helen M. Winslow and her Love of Finer Things" which is forthcoming in Island Writer. Andrea is currently completing her degree in writing from the University of Victoria.

Nadine Boulay is an undergraduate student in her final year of a BA-double honors in Women's and Gender Studies and Religion. Nadine has been actively involved with the Women's and Gender Studies program, co-organizing the first annual program colloquium where she presented a paper. Nadine is an editorial member of the Feminist and Queer (FAQ) Collective which publishes an annual undergraduate review of student work pertaining to feminist and queer concerns.

Nadine was the recipient of three awards this year: the Faculty of Arts Special Award for student activism (May 2010); the Marguerite Clara Germaine Jerome Scholarship in Religion (July 2010); and the UMSU Scholarship (July 2010).

Ghaida Moussa is an M.A. student at the University of Ottawa, currently completing a collaborative program blending Globalization and International Development with Women’s Studies. Her thesis, titled “Narrative (Sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity”, focuses on the various forms of traditional, daily and creative resistance of Palestinian womyn who challenge colonial, neocolonial and national narratives which are oppressive because of the false dichotomies they create, their inaccuracy in “representing” Palestinian queer realities and the unattainable ideals they set up.