Kimberly Meyer's The Book of Wanderings (Little, Brown) won the American Society of Journalists and Author’s 2016 Memoir Book Award and was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award. Long-form work appears in Texas Monthly, Orion, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, and This American Life.

Jessica Wilbanks is the author of the memoir When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss. She has received national awards for her nonfiction, including a Pushcart Prize, the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and Ninth Letter’s inaugural creative nonfiction award.

Ricardo Nuila is a practicing doctor, teacher, and writer. His journalistic work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic websites, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2011. He was awarded the inaugural New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

Dr. Max Rayneard is the cocreator of the Telling Project process. He has written and directed productions nationwide at such venues as the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, the Lincoln Center, the Guthrie Theatre, and the Alley Theatre.