W. Donald Wilson was born and educated in Ireland, taking degrees in modern languages and French literature at Trinity College Dublin. He taught at universities in the West Indies, the UK, and at the University of Waterloo, where he spent most of his career. He was twice long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award in the US, and was a finalist for the French-American Foundation’s translation prize and the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
James Wilt is a freelance journalist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He regularly contributes to The Narwhal, and has also written for VICE Canada, National Observer, CBC Calgary, Alberta Oil, Canadian Dimension and Briarpatch.
Lesley J. Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion: Collective Protest After the WTO Protests in Seattle and co-author of the third edition of Social Movements 1768–2012 (Paradigm Publishers) with the late Charles Tilly.
Clyde Woods lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Woods was the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta.
Donald Wright is a professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick.
John Yandell is Senior Lecturer in Education at University College London Institute of Education. He taught in inner London secondary schools for 20 years. Research interests include the ways in which literature is read in urban English classrooms and the development of teacher identities.
Eddie Yuen teaches urban studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and is co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement.