Morley Callaghan was a novelist and short story writer. He is the author of numerous books, including A Literary Life, The New Yorker Stories, Such Is My Beloved, and That Summer in Paris. He is the recipient of the Governor General's Award and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. André Alexis is the host of the CBC Radio show Skylarking and is a contributing editor at This Magazine. He is the author of Asylum, Childhood, and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and is the recipient of the Commonwealth Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Giller Prize. He lives in Toronto.