Mavis Reimer is the Canada Research Chair in Young People's Texts and Cultures and the Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She is the co-author, with Perry Nodelman, of The Pleasures of Children's Literature (3rd ed.), and lead editor of the scholarly journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
Nyala Ali holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. She has been published in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN.
Deanna England graduated with an honours degree in Psychology in 1998 and her Master's degree in Cultural Studies in 2012. She is a Graduate Studies Officer at The University of Winnipeg, Canada, and a regular contributor to the University of Venus, a blog featured on the Inside Higher Education website.
Melanie Dennis Unrau is a former editor of Geez magazine. Her first full poetry collection, Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, was published by The Muses' Company in 2013. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. She is a doctoral student in English at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
