Katharine Whitcomb is the co-editor of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology and the author of three poetry collections: Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, Hosannas, and Lamp of Letters. Her poetry awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

Mark Auslander is a sociocultural and historical anthropologist, with interests in slavery, historical memory, ritual performance; research in Africa and African American communities. He is author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family.

Marc Thompson is currently a Master's Candidate in Resource and Environmental Management at Central Washington University. He is the technical director for www.cascadiachronicle.com and www.asenseofplacewa.com. His main area of interest is finding interesting implementations for Google Earth.

Allen Braden is the author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood and Elegy in the Passive Voice. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Artist Trust of Washington State, as well as the Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and the Dana Award in Poetry.

Tom Wayman is the Squire of "Appledore," his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern B.C. He has published more than a dozen collections of poems, most recently Dirty Snow, as well as works of fiction and cultural criticism. He taught most recently for the University of Calgary, 2002-2010.