Ann Teplick is a Seattle poet, playwright, prose writer, and teaching artist who works at Seattle Children’s Hospital with Writers in the Schools, and Child Study Treatment Center with Pongo Teen Writing. 

Sierra Nelson is author of lyrical choose-your-own-adventure I Take Back the Sponge Cake, chapbook In Case of Loss, and collaborative poetry book Who Are We? Investigations & Findings. She teaches at Richard Hugo House and via WITS at Seattle Children’s Hospital working with palliative care youth.

Samar Abulhassan is a Seattle poet and teaching artist who has worked at Seattle's Hutch School with Writers in the Schools. Author of three poetry chapbooks, she  teaches for Richard Hugo House.

Eric Elshtain is poet-in-residence at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital and UIC Hospital through the nonprofit foundation Snow City Arts. He conducts poetry and art workshops with patients ranging in age from six to twenty-one, and he also teaches at Better Boys Foundation in Chicago.

Evan Cleveland is a fiction writer in Dallas. For eight years he worked with pediatric oncology and renal patients in Houston hospitals through WITS. Now, with Big Thought, he both creates and leads writing programs for local hospitals, while also slogging through a first draft of a novel.