Samantha Gibbon illustrated the cover and “The Midwife and the Spirit of Life.” She is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and a descendant of Peayasis Band in Northern Alberta. Raised an otipemisiwak (Métis) and Nehiyaw Iskwew in Treaty 6 Territory on Papaschase Land (Amiskwaciywaskahikan/Edmonton), she’s a senior medical student at the University of British Columbia. Although she currently lives on Syilx territory, her heart forever lies in the prairie brush of her ancestral homelands of Northern Alberta.