Toronto is a meeting place for writers from all over the world. Only Mountains Never Meet is the result of a collaboration of three talented just-starting-to-be-published writers, an editor who recognized and developed that talent and a publisher (Well Versed Publications) with a commitment to promote the work of Black and multicultural writers and poets. This collection of short creative non-fiction takes the reader through urban and rural Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and China. The distinctiveness of each writer's work highlights the diversity of Canadian culture today.

Nancy Chong is a Toronto writer, born in 1955 of Chinese-immigrant parents. Her father emigrated from China in 1913 and arranged for mother's arrival in 1949, two years after the Canadian government repealed the Exclusion Act. This past year Nancy received a writing grant from the Canada Council.

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Martha Kofie is an African-Canadian living in Toronto. Her father was born in West Africa and emigrated to Canada in the 1960s. Her mother was raised in northern Ontario.

Martha Kofie's profile page

Kwanza Msingwana, born in Northern Transvaal, Azania (South Africa) in 1961, fled the Venda, one of the sham independent Bantustan homelands, went into exile and lived as a stateless, paperless person in Mozmbique, Tanzania and Kenya, where he was declared a "prohibited immigrant." He came to Canada in 1986. He has been writing short stories, poetry, folk tales and children's stories since 1989. He performs as a percussionist for the Usafari Drum and Dance Ensemble, the Gayap Rhythm Drummers and the Caribbean Folk Performers.

Kwanza Msingwana's profile page