Jennifer Sinor is the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing. Her essays have appeared in the Seneca Review, American Scholar, and Utne. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University where she is an associate professor of English.

Gregory Martin is the author of the memoir Stories for Boys, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and the Seattle Reads selection for 2013. His first book, Mountain City, was a New York Times Notable Book. He is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

Debra Gwartney is the author of the memoir, Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She is co-author of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. She teaches in the low residency program at Pacific University.

Mark Sundeen is the author of the books The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. A correspondent for Outside magazine, his nonfiction appears in The New York Times magazine, the Believer, and McSweeneys. He teaches at the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University.