Renee E. D’Aoust is the author of Body of a Dancer, a ForeWord Reviews Memoir of the Year Finalist. She has received grants from Idaho Arts Commission, the Puffin Foundation, and a fellowship from the NEA Dance Journalism Institute. She teaches online at North Idaho College and Casper College.

Rebecca McClanahan’s tenth book is The Tribal Knot, a multi-generational memoir. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Wood prize from Poetry, she teaches in the MFA programs of Rainier Writing Workshop and Queens University, and she is the spring 2015 writer in residence at Hollins University.

Patrick Madden is the author of Quotidiana, finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in creative nonfiction, and winner of Foreword Reviews and Independent Publisher awards. His essays have appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction as well as numerous journals.

Phillip Lopate has written over twenty books, most recently, the essay collections Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction. He has also edited the anthology Art of the Personal Essay, and directs the MFA nonfiction program at Columbia University.

Peter Grandbois is the author of four books, including most recently a collection of fictions, Domestic Disturbances; a novel, Nahoonkara; and The Arsenic Lobster, a memoir. He is associate editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University.