Nancy King Schofield is a poet and visual artist. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from Mount Allison University in 1991 and has since presented over a hundred art exhibitions. She won the Loomis and Toles Award for painting from Mount Allison and an award at the Festival des arts visuels en Atlantique in Caraquet (2001). She also won first place in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Writing Competition (2010). She co-founded the groups Breach House Gang (1999) and Women Who Write (2016), which consist of published writers and artists who continue to meet every month.