Caroline Patterson, an adjunct professor at The University of Montana, edited the anthology Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, which received a gold Willa Award for nonfiction. She has published stories in many literary anthologies, as well as Alaska Quarterly Review and Southwest Review. She was a Stegner Fellow.

Leslee Becker, author of The Sincere Café, has published stories in the Atlantic, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review. Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Award, and a Copernicus Society Award. She teaches at Colorado State University.

Beverly Lowry is working on her tenth book, Four Girls, Austin and the Yogurt Shop Murders. She teaches at University of Houston-Victoria. He nonfiction books include Crossed Over, and her novels include The Track of Real Desires.

Tami Haaland is the author of When We Wake in the Night. She is a graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars and a professor at Montana State University, Billings. The poet laureate of Montana, she teaches at Montana Women’s Prison and coordinates a writing-in-the-schools program for Arts Without Boundaries.