Max Wallace is a Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. His  book, In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust (PRH Canada, 2017) became a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize—Canada’s most prestigious award for literary non-fiction. The book also won the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award. As a journalist, he has contributed to the Sunday New York Times and the BBC. Since 2007, he has also worked with AMI-TV—a television network for blind and partially sighted people—to write hundreds of Described Video film and television scripts.

C.I Matthews is a multidimensional artist: visual art and writer. Her debut short story collection Took You So Long is made up of 19 stories filled with characters who find themselves in unexpected situations.

Cindy has worked as a chambermaid, potato peeler, data entry operator, teacher, parenting instructor, vice-principal of special education programs, and instructor (Queen’s U.) of online additional qualifications courses for teachers. Now, she devotes herself fully to writing and painting in her studio-office in the Municipality of Brockton, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Her fiction and non-fiction writing have appeared or are forthcoming in literary journals / anthologies throughout the world.

Wolf Raymer like many Canadians arrived in our country as an immigrant with his family from Germany at age 5. He grew up in Vancouver, lived and worked in Toronto and Montreal. Wolf spent 26 years in finance in London, England with both Canadian and British financial institutions. His work took him to China, India, many European countries as well as Zimbabwe and Myanmar. Wolf was educated at UBC and U of T and has an MBA from York University. Wolf and his wife Nancy Kluger live in Hillsburgh. They have 4 children and 7 grandchildren living in Mississauga, New York City, Chicago and Orange County California. 

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.