Dinty W. Moore is author of Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, the memoir Between Panic & Desire, and numerous other books of nonfiction.

Daisy Hernández is the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir and coeditor of Colonize This! Her work has been published in National Geographic, Dogwood, The Rumpus, and many literary journals. She’s an assistant professor at Miami University in Ohio.

Sue William Silverman’s books include How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences; The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew; Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction; and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the nonfiction books Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and the editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Jill Christman is the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (AWP Award Series in CNF winner) and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. A senior editor of River Teeth, she teaches creative nonfiction writing at Ball State University.