Cordelia Strube is a playwright and the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, including Alex and Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, and Lemon. Winner of the CBC literary competition, she has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the SmithBooks in Canada First Novel Award and long-listed for The Giller Prize. A three-time nominee for the ReLit Award, she has been leading writing workshops at Ryerson University since 2000.
Barry Healey has written television variety material for such performers as Milton Berle, Arte Johnson, Soupy Sales, Bob Crane, Andy Griffith, Jackie Mason, Henry Mancini, Van Johnson and others.
His motion picture credits include the award-winning shorts: Outtakes (1977) writer / director/ producer; The Night Before The Morning After (1979) writer/director; and the feature films: The Grey Fox (1983) co-producer; One Magic Christmas (1985) writer; Big Deal (1985) director; Hollywooood North (2003) writer. Mr. Healey's 1st novel, The Sex Life of the Amoeba, was published in the Fall of 2014.