Suzanne Roberts is the author of the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, as well as four collections of poetry, including Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel. She writes and teaches in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Rolf Potts is the author of two travel books, and he has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, the New Yorker, Slate.com, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times magazine. He teaches nonfiction writing at Yale.

Lavinia Spalding is series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and coauthor of With a Measure of Grace: the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Her work appears in many print and online publications.

David Miller is Senior Editor of Matador, the largest independent travel publication on the internet, and Director of Curricula at MatadorU, a global education community for writers, photographers, and filmmakers with an emphasis on travel journalism.

Ann Marie Brown is the author of thirteen guidebooks and dozens of magazine articles on California and Nevada travel and outdoor recreation. She also teaches Travel and Adventure Writing and journalism classes at Sierra Nevada College.