Terry Wolverton is author of ten books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, most recently Wounded World: Lyric Essays About Our Spiritual Disquiet. She is founder of Writers at Work, a creative writing studio, and affiliate faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.

David Groff’s book Clay was chosen by Michael Waters for the Louise Bogan Award. He coedited the anthologies Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and Who’s Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners and he teaches in the MFA program of the City College of New York.

Irene Borger, writer, teacher, and director of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, is the former artist in residence at AIDS Project Los Angeles, where she founded the writing program. She is the editor of the anthologies From a Burning House, nominated for a Grammy, and The Force of Curiosity.

Reginald Harris is director of library and outreach services for Poets House in New York City. A poet and full-time library professional, he has been involved in the development and presentation of poetry and literature-related humanities programming for over fifteen years.

Michael Broder is the author of Drug and Disease Free and This Life Now (a 2015 Lambda Literary Award finalist). He is the founder of Indolent Books, the curator of the HIV Here & Now Project, and serves on the organizing committee of the annual Rainbow Book Fair in NYC. He has been HIV-positive since 1990.