Kitty Hoffman’s essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers including The New Quarterly, Prism, Grain, The Malahat Review, Boulevard, The Common, and The Vancouver Sun. They have been published in anthologies including Fault Lines, Still Dancing, Listening with the Ear of the Heart, and Celebrating Canadian Women.

Nessa is a contemporary abstract painter and teacher living in county Wicklow, Ireland. She paints to be in that state where she feels wide eyed with curiosity, a delightful place of freedom.

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Rene is a Financial Advisor with over 30 years experience helping people manage their wealth. An early part of his career his was helping a bank understand how its lending practices led to a critical level of loan defaults at one of its newest branches. The accumulation of his hands on experiences led him to write a book. Credit, it’s a drug. Cure the addiction for a dollar a day; explores how debt can take a hold of your life, who’s to blame, how it happens for some and not others, and a path to recovery.

Valerie Armstrong is a mixed-media painter working in acrylics and cold wax/oil. She is based mainly in Woodbridge on the beautiful East-Anglian coast of England. After her children were born, as a way to work from home when they were at school, she began a business painting murals, painted folding screens, and furniture to commission. As they grew up she became a printmaker and a painter. Now painting, exhibiting, and some workshop teaching occupies all of her time.