Joan Turner is a social worker and massage therapist. She is editor of Living the Changes, co–editor of Perspectives on Women, and contributing author to Healing Voices. Her writing has appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio, Motherworker, Backtalk, and Feminist Bookstore News. She was Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, for almost 20 years, and chaplain of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg. She lives in Winnipeg. Carole Rose is a writer, teacher, and counsellor. She is published in CV2, Dandelion, Other Voices, Parchment, Prairie Fire, Quarry, The Wascana Review, Vintage '96, Whetstone, and Zygote. Her work has also appeared in anthologies: Consciousness Raising: Women’s Stories of Connection and Transformation, Voices and Echoes: Canadian Women’s Spirituality, and Miriam’s Well. Carol’s awards include the Henry Fuerstenberg Award for Poetry, co–winner in the Sandburg–Livesay poetry competition, and second prize in the Stephen Leacock International Poetry Competition. She was also twice nominated for the John Hirsch award for most promising Manitoba writer. Her collection of poetry is called Behind the Blue Gate. Carol lives in Winnipeg.