Janelle Adsit's books include the poetry collection Unremitting Entrance, and texts for classroom-use: Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing, and Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings. She is Assistant Professor of creative writing at Humboldt State University.

Conchitina Cruz teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her books of poetry include Dark Hours, elsewhere held and lingered, and There Is No Emergency. She helps run the small press expo Better Living Through Xeroxography.

James Ryan is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at University Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently coauthoring a creative writing workshop handbook that draws on the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literary theory.

Steve Westbrook is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses in creative writing and cultural studies. With James Ryan, he is the coauthor of The Critical Work of Creative Writing. His long poem is Vox Americana.