Martha Nichols is the Editor-in-Chief of Talking Writing, a digital literary magazine. Her personal essays and features have been widely published in journals such as Utne Reader, Salon, and Women's Review of Books. She teaches in the journalism program at Harvard University Extension School.

Michael Steinberg is founding editor of Fourth Genre. Still Pitching won the ForeWord Magazine/Independent Press Memoir of the Year. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (with Bob Root) is in a sixth edition. He's nonfiction writer in residence in the Solstice MFA program.

Phillip Lopate has written over twenty books, most recently, Portrait Inside My Head, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and A Mother's Tale. He has also edited the anthology Art of the Personal Essay, and is a MFA nonfiction professor at Columbia University.

Yi Shun Lai has written for publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times to Bustle. She edits prose at, and is co-owner of, the Tahoma Literary Review. She is a graduate of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA program and teaches creative writing at the University of La Verne.

Ana Maria Spagna is the author of seven books including Reclaimers, about people reclaiming sacred land and water, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and three essay collections. She teaches in the Antioch University MFA program and lives in the North Cascades.