John Hill has been a musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, film composer, and teacher of film music. He received an MFA from Bennington College.

Dinah Lenney wrote Bigger than Life: A Murder, A Memoir and co-authored Acting for Young Actors. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and the MPW program at the University of Southern California. Her new memoir, The Object Parade, has just been published.

Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling novelist of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and the founder of the annual Mixed Remixed Festival.

Sheena Cook is a Scottish writer with a law degree from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in literature and writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont. Her first novel is in the hands of agents, and she is working on her second.

Tod Goldberg is the author of several books of fiction, including Gangsterland, Other Resort Cities, and the popular Burn Notice series. His nonfiction has recently appeared in the Best American Essays, LA Times, and LA Review of Books. He directs the low residency MFA at the University of California, Riverside.