Rita Wilson is a writer, poet, teacher, mother, grandmother, and gardener who lives on the banks of the Caribou River in Nova Scotia. She's been published in: Saltscapes, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Cumberland Review; and received the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She first discovered Elizabeth Bishop at Bishop's grandparent's home in Great Village, and immediately imagined that house as the perfect framework to introduce Bishop and her words to children and parents.

Emma FitzGerald is an author and illustrator. Her first book, Hand Drawn Halifax, documents her chosen home city, while Hand Drawn Vancouver (Spring 2020) explores the city she grew up in. Emma fell in love with Elizabeth Bishop's poetry when she first discovered it in 2013, and has since completed two residencies in Bishop's childhood home in Nova Scotia, and has visited various homes in Brazil that Bishop lived in, creating artwork as she went. This helped greatly when illustrating A Pocket of Time.