Mimi Schwartz’s books include When History Is Personal; Good Neighbors, Bad Times; Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed; and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, coauthored with Sondra Perl. Her short work has been widely published and ten are notables in the Best American Essay.

Joan Frank is the author of eight books of literary fiction and two books of collected essays. A MacDowell and VCCA Fellow, Joan also teaches, edits, lectures, and reviews literary fiction and nonfiction.

S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg is the author of a chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch; an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions; and a fiction collection, The Sweetheart Is In. She teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School and edits Another Chicago Magazine.

Thomas Larson is the author of Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry, The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative.