Patrick Madden is the author of Quotidiana, finalist for the PEN Center USA award and winner of Foreword Reviews and Independent Publisher awards. His essays have appeared in the Best American Spiritual Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction as well as numerous journals.

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 6th edition. He is  nonfiction writer in residence in the Solstice MFA program.

Renee 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.

Thomas Larson is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written and The Memoir and the Memoirist and a staff writer for the San Diego Reader. He teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA Program at Ashland University. His new book is The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease.

Desirae Matherly teaches writing at Tusculum College, and serves as nonfiction editor for the Tusculum Review. Desirae earned a PhD in creative nonfiction from Ohio University in 2004 and she is a former Harper Fellow at The University of Chicago.