Nancy Lord is the author of environmentally related books including the nonfiction Early Warming and Beluga Days and, most recently, pH: A Novel. She edited the anthology Made of Salmon. She teaches nature and science writing for Johns Hopkins University and is a former Alaska Writer Laureate.

Holly J. Hughes is editor of Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, coauthor of The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and author of Sailing by Ravens and Passings, which received an American Book Award. Hold Fast was released from Empty Bowl Press in 2020.

Elizabeth Dodd teaches creative writing and environmental literature, as well as interdisciplinary science and humanities courses at Kansas State University. She’s authored six books, most recently Horizon’s Lens. She is nonfiction editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.

Juan J. Morales is the author of three poetry collections including The Handyman's Guide to End Times. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, the editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, an associate dean in the College of Humanities Arts & Social Sciences, and a Professor of English at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Jill McCabe Johnson's poetry collections include Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd Outgrown, Pendulum, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea, winner of a Nautilus Award. She teaches creative writing at Skagit Valley College and is editor in chief for Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table.