Joy Lanzendorfer’s work has been in Mental Floss, Salon, Entrepreneur, Imbibe, Hotel Amerika, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Monkeybicycle, Necessary Fiction, Superstition Review, and others. She’s a judge for the Writer’s Digest Book Awards and holds an MA from San Francisco State University.

Marcia Simmons is the author of DIY Cocktails. Her work has appeared in Every Day With Rachael Ray, Serious Eats, Geek, Go, Make, and Shape, among others. She has also served as an editor for the Project Censored series of books.

Nora Maynard's recent work has appeared in Salon, Drunken Boat, the Millions, and the Ploughshares and Brevity blogs. Recipient of fiction fellowships from the Millay Colony, Ragdale, Ucross, Blue Mountain, and I-Park, she is a member of the board of directors for the Millay Colony for the Arts.

Ken Weaver is a professional writer and editor. His first book, The Northern California Craft Beer Guide, was named a finalist for an NCIBA Book of the Year award. Ken currently heads RateBeer Weekly, a digital publication reaching 85,000 subscribers in over 160 countries.