Yvette Benavides is a professor of creative at Our Lady of the Lake University. She is a commentator on Texas Public Radio and a book critic for the San Antonio Express News. She is the editor of EQ, a nonfiction anthology series from Trinity University Press.

David Martin Davies is an award-winning journalist. Davies is the host of the Source, a daily news call-in program on Texas Public Radio. He is also the host of Texas Matters, a syndicated weekly radio news magazine. He has interviewed authors on public radio and C-SPAN Book TV.

Lilly Gonzalez is the executive director of the San Antonio Book Festival. Born and raised in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, she earned both her MFA in creative writing and BS in journalism from Northwestern University.