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Vivian Unger lived most of her life in Montreal, Quebec, where she graduated from McGill with a B.A. In Classics and Computer Science. In 2006, she moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she currently resides with her husband. She reads widely in both fiction and non-fiction but her favorite genre is speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy). Recent themes/obsessions include the brain, the environment and climate change, and palaeontology. Her fiction has appeared in the online magazines In My Bed and Inscribed and in the anthology Twisted Tails V: Apocalypses Now and Then. A more recent short story is to appear in a future issue of The Rejected Quarterly. Aside from literary pursuits, Vivian enjoys gardening, cooking, wild plant identification and occasional spurts of knitting.

Carmel Vivier has been a freelance writer and photographer for almost 20 years and currently lives in Quispamsis, New Brunswick. She is the author of a non-fiction book on shipwrecks and is currently under contract for two more non-fiction, history related books on New Brunswick and the Maritime Provinces.

Carmel’s articles and photography appears in magazines and newspapers throughout Canada, the United States and Ireland, as well as on the Internet. Her articles cover technical writing, history, business, law, travel and tourism, and cultural topics.

Other interests include hiking, travel and meeting new people.

Born: July 24, 1946
As retirement from the daily grind appears on the horizon, I anticipate the opportunity to satisfy the creative muse which has snipped at my heels for over forty years.
At fifteen, I picked up his father’s camera – the one he used to make photographs on his way to work of the morning suns rising over the Nashwaak River or sparkling on banks of snow along Canada Street in Marysville – and thus began my love affair with the technology and creativity of imagery.

I spent thirty years in professional photography, then placed it on a shelf as easily as I first embraced it. A decade and more have past since I began to turn words into images, resulting in dozens of short stories, one finished novel and another in gestation.

I entered the world of photography with the intention of ‘saying something’ through that medium, of expressing my world in what I saw around me. Whether I mastered that way of saying something or not, I have yielded to the tug away from the image toward the word as the means of expression. I began writing fiction to portray the visual world in language, as I had first attempted to define life through imagery.

My hope now is that I can blend the two in ways that will enable me to say something ... more.