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Alistair MacLeod, a native of Canada, was born in1936 and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is the author of three collections of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, and Island, which collects in a single volume one new story and all of his previously published short stories. His first book of fiction, No Great Mischief about a family emigrating from Scotland in 1779, was met with great critical acclaim. A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Windsor University since 1969. He and his family return every summer to Cape Breton where he spends part of his time, "writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island."

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Shelagh Rogers, one of the most familiar and beloved of Canadian radio voices, is the host of CBC Radio One's morning show, Sounds Like Canada, featuring interviews with contemporary Canadian newsmakers, authors, and artists. Rogers is also a published poet and writer, and a dedicated volunteer for the literacy movement. In 1995 she received the Jack Award for her contribution to raising awareness of Canadian writers and their work.

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