This collection addresses questions by drawing poetry, fiction, life writing, creative nonfiction, and essays from more than 70 authors representing a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. After thoroughly reconsidering the contents, Smaro Kamboureli has introduced over 25 authors, many of them seldom anthologized elsewhere, to the already extensive collection of established writers. The result is a unique survey that stands as the most engaging and comprehensive anthology of Canadian multicultural literatures written in English.