About the editors:

Richard Olafson

Richard Olafson is an editor, poet, book designer and publisher. A long-time Victoria resident, he is active in many community organizations. Richard Olafson has published a number of books and chapbooks, among them Blood of the Moon, The Name of Being, In Arbutus Light, Apotheosis, Roses. Pearls. Ocean. Stars: Triads, The Ocean and My Body are One, My Body is the Ocean, and most recently, Cloud on My Tongue, and There are Some So Unlucky they Do Not Even Have Bodies.

He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in its second year of operation and was much influenced the following year by taking classes from Warren Tallman at UBC's English Department. As a book designer, he has published over 270 chapbooks and books. He is currently co-editor and publisher of The Pacific Rim Review of Books.

He has lived in Victoria for many years and enjoys parenting two teenage boys with singer-songwriter Carol Ann Sokoloff.

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Trevor Carolan

Trevor Carolan was born in Yorkshire. His family emigrated to British Columbia in 1957 and he began writing at 17 filing dispatches from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury music scene. For three years he travelled in Britain, Europe and India before mastering in English at Humboldt State University in 1978. He served as literary coordinator for the XV Olympic Winter Games, and has published works of fiction, memoir, poetry, translation, and anthologies.

Active in Pacific coast watershed issues, he lives in North Vancouver where he served for three years as elected municipal councillor. Currently, he writes as current affairs columnist for the North Shore News and teaches English at University College of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver. He is also affiliated with the Department of International Relations at Bond University, Queensland, Australia.

His travel novel The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz is published by Anchor. Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg At Hollyhock, a memoir of his acquaintance with the late poet is published by the Banff Centre Press. Celtic Highway, a collection of poetry is published by Ekstasis. In 2003 he received a Spirituality & Health Best Books of the Year citation for his Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master (Marlowe), an account of his 20 years as a student with Master Ng Ching-Por in Vancouver.