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, Ashland, Ohio. His latest book is The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease.

Kathryn Winograd is author of Air Into Breath (Colorado Book Award in Poetry) and Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation, finalist for 2014 Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. She is on the MFA faculty for Regis University.

Janice Gary is the author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, winner of two Nautilus Silver Awards and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. She teaches creative writing and memoir at Anne Arundel College and is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Beverly Donofrio has three memoirs: Riding in Cars with Boys, Looking for Mary, and Astonished; three children's books, Thank You, Lucky Stars; Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary; and Where's Mommy? Her essays are on NPR, in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, O, Slate, and Huffington Post.

Shann Ray is the author of American Masculine: Stories; the nonfiction book, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity; Balefire: Poems; and the novel, American Copper. His work has been honored with an American Book Award, and an NEA Literature Fellowship. He teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.