Stephanie Lenox is the author of three collections of poetry: The Business, Congress of Strange People, and The Heart That Lies Outside the Body. She is co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology. She works as an instructional editor at Chemeketa Press in Salem, Oregon.

Stephanie G'Schwind is the editor of Colorado Review and director of the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. She is also coeditor, with Donald Revell, of the Mountain West Poetry Series and editor of the anthology Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood.

Bryan Fry is the Editor-in-Chief of Blood Orange Review as well as the Editing and Publishing Coordinator in the English department at Washington State University. His essays have appeared in Brevity, Front Porch, and South Dakota Review.

Richard Carlin is the author of several books on popular music, including Godfather of the Music Business: The Life and Times of Morris Levy. He works for Oxford University Press where he is Executive Editor for College Music and Art textbooks.

Steve Richardson is the founding director of Chemeketa Press. He works with faculty to develop effective textbook manuscripts and then publishes them in affordable editions. Prior to this, he taught composition with care and imagination for twenty-five years. His book, The Humble Essay, is still around.