Kevin McFadden is the author of the poetry collection Hardscrabble, which received awards from the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is a book artist and letterpress printer at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center with experience in new media collaboration.

Todd Boss is a poet, installation artist, and producer of 60+ poetry films (Motionpoems, Inc). His first libretto, "Panic," a verse retelling of Knut Hamsun's 1895 novella, Pan, premiered in 2014. He is founder of the Great Northern Poetry Film Festival and inventor of the weeCinema pop-up theater.

Katherine McNamara directs Artist's Proof Editions and is the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Journey into the Interior of Alaska. With the late Athabaskan writer Peter Kalifornsky, she is co-author of From the First Beginning, When the Animals Were Talking, a multi-touch book.

Lisa Pearson is the publisher and founder of Siglio, an independent press dedicated to publishing uncommon books at the intersection of art and literature—inimitable, visionary, and un-categorizable works by renowned as well as little-known artists and writers.

Steve Woodall is director of the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where he also directs the Radical Publishing Project, an initiative that supports discourse on digital publishing. He writes and lectures on links between new and old media in literature and visual art.