Artist Geoff Butler is a Nova Scotian artist and writer who was born on Fogo Island, NL. He did paintings for the "Ode to Labrador" during an artist residency at North West River, Labrador, just a stone's throw from Dr. Paddon's house. Geoff's self-published books are Art of War: Painting it out of the picture; The Look of Angels: Angels in Art; With Every Breath We Take: a modern fable in which a snowflake helps put an end to war; and Our Own Little World: in paintings and verse. He has also illustrated Ode to Newfoundland (Tundra Books, 2003).Author Robin McGrath is a former academic who specialized in Inuit Studies She did twenty-five years of field research in the Canadian Arctic before returning to her home in Newfoundland, later moving to Labrador in 2006. She is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition, the novels Donovan's Station and The Winterhouse, the poetry collections Escaped Domestics and Covenant of Salt, and All in Together: Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland and Labrador.