Arthur Slade was raised in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He received an English Honors degree from the University of Saskatchewan, spent several years writing advertising and is a full-time fiction writer. He is the author of the ""Northern Frights"" series, the ""Canadian Chills"" series, Dust, which won the the 2001 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and Tribes. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife, Brenda Baker, and daughter Tori. Derek Mah draws and paints in Calgary, Alberta, in the company of his wife Cari, two cats, a rotating cast of gerbils, hamsters, and mice. He has spent the past two decades trying to convince anyone who will listen that it is too a real job.