Pablo Neruda was one of the most famous poets of all time. From the 1940s on, his works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America. He is also very famous for his love poems, which have sold more than a million copies.

Gustavo Escobedo works as a teacher, a photographer, and a translator. His other translated work is The Wolf's Mouth which won numerous prizes in its original Spanish.

Rosemary Sullivan is a celebrated critic, editor, poet, and biographer. She is the author of, among others: Where the World Was; Betrayal of Anne Frank; The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out (biography); and editor of Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (anthology).

A. F. Moritz is the Poet Laureate emeritus of Toronto. His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He has also written seven nonfiction books, and translated eight books into English.

Beatriz Hausner is a published poet and the translator of some 20 works of literature, principally from Spanish into English. Many of her poems were collected in The Invisible Presence Sixteen Poets of Spanish America 1925-1995 and she is the author of a variety of full-length poetry collection. She is a former president of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.

George Elliott Clarke's many honors include being Canada' Poet Laureate, winning the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement, a Governor General's Award for Poetry, and a National Magazine Gold Medal for poetry. He is also the author of numerous collections of poetry, among others crossing a variety of genres.