David Bishop teaches in the creative writing graduate program at Edinburgh Napier University and guest lectures at other Scottish universities. The author of twenty published novels, he also writes dramas for BBC TV and plays for BBC Radio and is a graphic novels consultant for Grub Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Barbara Duffey is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection I Might Be Mistaken, and she has published neo-noir fiction and literary nonfiction. She is an assistant professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota.

Nicole D. Peeler received an undergraduate degree in English literature from Boston University, and a PhD in English literature from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. She currently teaches at Seton Hill University in the MFA in popular fiction program and writes urban fantasy for Orbit Books. 

Vicki Stiefel's four novels include the award-winning The Grief Shop, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications. She ran The Writers’ Studio workshops in creative fiction and currently teaches fiction and modern media writing at Clark University. She recently completed her fifth novel.