Jo Scott-Coe is the author of a memoir in essays, Teacher at Point Blank. Her nonfiction has appeared in many places, including Salon, Fourth Genre, and the Los Angeles Times. An associate professor of English at Riverside City College, she also leads workshops for the (In)Visible Memoirs Project.

Michael Steinberg is founding editor of Fourth Genre. Still Pitching won the ForeWord Magazine/Independent Press Memoir of the Year. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (with Bob Root) is in a sixth edition. He is nonfiction writer in residence in the Solstice MFA program.

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.

Richard Hoffman is author of six books: Half the House: A Memoir; the poetry collections Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, and Emblem; Interference & Other Stories; and most recently, the memoir Love & Fury. He is senior writer in residence at Emerson College.

Meredith Hall is the author of the best-selling memoir Without A Map. She is listed on Flavorwire's "17 Women to Read" and was awarded the Gift of Freedom award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, and others. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire.