Jay Lamar is coeditor of Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. Founding director of the Alabama Center for the Book, she directed the Alabama Bicentennial Commission and now works for the Alabama Writers' Forum.

Patricia Foster is a professor emerita in the MFA program in nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She is the award-winning author of All the Lost Girls, Just beneath My Skin, Girl from Soldier Creek, Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter, and the editor of four anthologies.

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright. She is the author of four novels and one book of poetry. She is an associate professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Emmy-winning producer/director Wendy Reed began to combine her passion for writing and story with her interests in science and medicine by launching science writing seminars. During the pandemic she worked for the Census, and at a Mass Vaccine Site. Now she works as a director in the Alabama BRAIN Lab

Jacqueline Allen Trimble is author of American Happiness, winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize, and How to Survive the Apocalypse. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (poetry) and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is professor of English/chair at Alabama State University.