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Rex Deverell began his working career in 1967 as the pastor of a small Baptist church in southern Ontario. Drama, both religious and secular, played an important role even in those days through acting, directing, writing.

In 1968 Deverell's "The Invitation" won the Playwrights' Award from the University of Western Ontario. He wrote several plays in the following few years. By 1970 he resigned his pastorate and devoted himself to theatre. From 1970 to 1975 Deverell and his family lived in Regina and Toronto. This same period also saw the production of plays for young audiences such as "Sam and the Tigers", "Shortshrift", "Copetown City Kite Crisis" and "Sarah's Play".

In 1975 Regina’s Globe Theatre, southern Saskatchewan's premiere theatre company, appointed Deverell as Playwright-in-Residence. He held this position until October 1989 when he moved to Toronto. "Boiler Room Suite" was produced in 1976. In 1978 this play won the Canadian Authors' Award. It enjoyed great success, became the libretto for an opera, and travelled to Vancouver, Toronto and London, England among other cities.
Deverell has served in various provincial and national organizations, including the Playwrights Union of Canada, the Guild of Canadian Playwrights. He was was a founding member of the Saskatchewan Playwrights' Centre

Dave Margoshes was born in the United States and attended school in New York City and in New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.

He worked in newspapers in several American cities before immigrating to Canada in the 1970s; subsequently, he worked on newspapers in Vancouver and Calgary and taught journalism at Calgary's Mount Royal College and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Since moving to Saskatchewan in 1986, he's been writer-in-residence in Winnipeg (1995-96) and Saskatoon (2001-02), taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Regina, and has given readings and writing workshops across the country.

Margoshes is the author of two novels, Drowning Man and I'm Frankie Sterne; a novella, We Who Seek: A Love Story; five short story collections, Fables of Creation, Long Distance Calls, Nine Lives, Small Regrets, and Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, which was a double winner at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. He has four collections of poetry: The Horse Knows the Way, Purity of Absence, Northwest Passages, and Walking at Brighton; he is also the author of a biography, Tommy Douglas: Building the New Society, and of a junior high school resource book, used in both Canadian and American schools.

Dave Margoshes' stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and have been broadcast on CBC.

Margoshes has been very active in the writing community in both Saskatchewan and nationally. He received the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Volunteer Award in 2000 for, among other things, helping to organize the Saskatchewan Book Awards (he was the first chairman for this event). He's won several awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Stephen Leacok Poetry Award.

Dave Margoshes currently lives in Regina.

Thelma Poirier grew up on a ranch in southern Saskatchewan and has since spent her adult life on ranches near Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan. She moved to Glentworth 2004 and writes about the land, the animals and vegetation of Southwestern Saskatchewan and ranching. She has published poetry collections titled Grasslands, The Private Hearings (1990), Double Visions (1984), Rock Creek Blues (1998), two books for young readers: Children of the Wood Mountain Uplands, The Bead Pot and a creative non-fiction memoir, Rock Creek. In 2012 Poirier won the Sask Poetry Award for Rock Creek Blues.

Poirier has contributed to portions of the Parks Canada publication, .Field Guide to the Grasslands National Park and has edited several books about ranching, among them: Beyond the Range, Cowgirls: 100 Years of Writing the Range (2002), Grass Roots, Wood Mountain Uplands and A Voice of Her Own (2005).

Other publications include Rodeo Kids (1998), and most recently The Grasslanders: Ranch Stories from Grasslands National Park to be published in 2017.

In 2012 she was the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos Award.

Kenneth Ronald Mitchell was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and has lived in Regina since 1969.

In 1958-59 he enrolled at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (School of Journalism) but failed the course, upon which he obtained a job at the Regina Leader-Post. He worked for some time as a journalist and proofreader at Regina, Toronto, and London England, before returning to Regina in 1965. He then took up studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, earning earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and a Masters of Arts in 1967.

Mitchell taught Introductory English, Canadian Literature and Creative Writing workshops in the Department of English at the University of Regina; he has also conducted senior and Honours classes in Modern Canadian Literature and Creative Writing. He retired in 2005 as Professor Emeritus.

Besides his professorship in the Department of English at the University of Regina, he has been appointed Visiting Professor, University of Victoria 1975-76; Instructor, Banff School of Fine Arts 1977, 1978 and 1980; Scottish-Canadian Exchange Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 1979-80; Foreign Expert, University of Nanking, China 1980-81; and Foreign Expert, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, China 1986-87; he was also Director of Creative Writing at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts from 1970 to 1975.

Ken Mitchell’s stage play Heroes was produced over 50 times in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, New Zealand, Turkey and Scotland. Other poems, plays, stories and articles have been published in at least 40 collections and anthologies. Published works include Wandering Rafferty, The Meadowlark Connection, Cruel Tears, Sinclair Ross: a Reader’s Guide, Ken Mitchell Country, The Shipbuilder, The Plainsman, and Stones of the Dalai Lama. Film scripts have also been produced for The Hounds of Notre Dame, The Shipbuilder, The Giant, and The Dream Seekers.

Ken Mitchell was founding chairman for professional associations such as the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 1969 to 1971; Grain 1973 and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Colony 1978. He was a member of the National Council, Writers’ Union of Canada, 1974-75; Edinburgh Playwright’s Workshop 1980 and Saskatchewan Playwright Centre 1982; Mexico-Canada Writers’ Colloquium, Guanajuato, Mexico 1982; National Board, Guild of Canadian Playwrights, 1982 – 1984; National Board, Playwrights Canada, 1983 – 1984; he later served as Vice-president, Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 1987 – 1989, and as President in 2004-2005.