"I recommend this book to you. It is a book of poetry whose authorship is plural, but I hesitate to call it an anthology because of certain conventions which the mention of the term causes the reader to expect. This is a book whose mythic spectrum is broad. Very. I took on the project as editor because the body of work presented me by publisher and the five poets was various, superb, and challenging. See what you think." - J. Michael Yates

Mary E. Choo is a fantasy and science fiction poet and writer who lives in Richmond, British Columbia. She attended the University of British Columbia, and in recent years her work has placed in a number of contests, including the poetry category of the Cross-Canada Writer’s Magazine annual competition and the American Amelia Awards. Her poetry has appeared in publications in both Canada and the United States, among them the Methuen Children’s anthology, The Window of Dreams, Mamashee, Scrivener, Amelia, and the Cross-Canada Writer’s Magazine. She has had fiction accepted by The Twilight Kingdom and Sword And Sorceress VI.

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Margaret Fridel began writing poetry while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Several magazines have published her work, including The Mattawa Chronicle in Canada and Interstate in the United States. Her other interests include serious photography and mountaineering. She lives in Coquitlam, BC.

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Eileen Kernaghan lives in New Westminster, British Columbia. Sophie, in Shadow is Kernaghan’s ninth book in the fantasy genre. Eileen’s first young adult fantasy, Dance of the Snow Dragon, was set in 18th century Bhutan. It was followed by The Snow Queen, which won an Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and was shortlisted by the Canadian Library Association for Best Children’s Book of the Year. The Alchemist’s Daughter, set in Elizabethan England, was shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Prize for Children’s Literature and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. Winter on the Plain of Ghosts, which also appeared in 2004, is an adult historical fantasy set in the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural, a novel of spiritualism in Victorian England and fin de siècle Paris, appeared in 2008, and was shortlisted for a Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

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