Rains, At Times Heavy

Debi Goodwin is the author of two nonfiction books: Citizens of Nowhere (Doubleday, 2010/Anchor 2011) a journalistic account of following Somali refugees from their camps in Kenya through their first year in Canada, and A Victory Garden for Trying Times (Dundurn Press, 2019), a memoir of creating a garden in the year of her husband's cancer treatments and death. For more than twenty years, she was CBC television producer at the Journal, CBC Newsworld, and the National. For ten years she produced international documentaries as well as documentaries at home on environmental and social issues, and the arts, winning several awards for her work. Debi currently lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Emily Sutton-Smith is a professional actress and one of the cofounders of an Equity theater in central Michigan. Her stage credits include Out of Orbit; Doublewide; Summer Retreat; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Miracle on South Division Street; End Days; The Usual: A Musical Love Story; The Smell of the Kill; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds; Maidens, Mothers and Crones; and Additional Particulars. A New York City native, she has worked onstage at almost all the Equity theaters in Michigan, including the Williamston Theatre, the Purple Rose Theatre, Performance Network Theatre, Tipping Point Theatre, the Detroit Rep, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and MeadowBrook Theatre. Emily is a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. Her film and TV credits include The Funeral Guest, Gifted Hands, Butterfly Effect: Revelation, The Prince of Motor City, and Nevermore. Emily studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, and holds a Grande Diploma in Pastry Arts from the French Culinary Institute. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University.