Peter Grandbois is the author of four books, including most recently a collection of fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a novel, Nahoonkara, and The Arsenic Lobster, a memoir. He is associate editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University.

Janet Burroway is author of eight novels including Raw Silk, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand, and textbooks Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing. Her memoir Losing Tim appeared 2013. She is at work on a musical, Morality Play, and a drama, Headshots. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at FSU.

Brighde Mullins's twelve plays have been performed in New York, London, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Whiting, an NEA, and a United States Artists Award. She is the Director of MPW, a multi-genre creative writing program at the University of Southern California.

David Starkey is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2010 Poet Laureate. His introductory textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, is in its second edition, and a two-genre version of the book has just been published.