Fred Marchant is the author of four books of poetry, most recently a twentieth anniversary second edition of Tipping Point, his first book. He has a new collection forthcoming, titled The Day Later, and he is the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Project in Boston, Massachusetts.

Maxine Hong Kingston writes and teaches fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She has received a National Book Critics Circle Award, two National Book Awards, and a Writers for Writers Award. She has taught for fifty years, including twenty years at a workshop for vets, which resulted in Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace.

Becca J.R. Lachman teaches and tutors at Ohio University. Her books of poetry include Other Acreage (forthcoming) and The Apple Speaks. She is also the editor of A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford.

Kim Stafford is the is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared; The Muses Among Us; and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. He directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.

Joshua Morgan Folmar is a poet, teacher, and singer-songwriter. He is currently pursuing his MFA in poetry from the University of New Hampshire. He is also a Marine veteran and teaches a creative nonfiction course entitled "Writing the War Experience."