Nick Fonda is an award-winning reporter who has also wielded chalk in classrooms in Canada and the UK for more than 25 years. He has kept in touch with reality-other than the overwhelming reality of schools-by plying such trades as lumberjack, carpenter, restaurateur and raconteur. Nick Fonda's non Roads to Richmond: Portraits of Quebec's Eastern Townships (Baraka Books 2010) was remarkably successful.
Denis Palmer holds a degree in architecture from McGill University.
He teaches art and has exhibited his work widely. He published a book of his work entitled "Homage to Rural Life."