S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg is the author of two nonfiction books, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, and Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions, and the fiction collection The Sweetheart Is In. She directs the MA/MFA in Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University.

Faith Adiele is author of Meeting Faith, a PEN-award-winning memoir/travel diary and writer/subject/narrator of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary based on a memoir-in-progress about finding her global family. She teaches at California College of the Arts, Stanford, Berkeley, and around the world.

Donald Morrill is the author of four books of nonfiction, among them Impetuous Sleeper and The Untouched Minutes, as well as two volumes of poetry. He is currently associate dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa and teaches in UT’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing.

Kenny Kruse is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. He teaches with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project and is a co-founder of Writers in the Schools - Alabama.

Marilyn Abildskov