The Rock Box

Poet, teacher, and editor, Don McKay is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and essays, many of them award-winning. Deeply engaged with the natural world and the play of language, McKay brings his fascination with, and knowledge of, geology and deep time to young readers in his first children’s book. He lives and writes in St. John’s, NL.

Sally McKay is an artist, curator, art-writer, and educator who works in performance, installation, and digital media. Her current research/work involves an ecologically significant site on McMaster University’s campus, located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit and Haudenosaunee nations. She has created animations, written art comics, and collaborated on a variety of zines, and brings that spirit and energy to her first work purely for children—a collaboration with her father. She lives in Hamilton, ON.