Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden. Her essays appear in The San Francisco Chronicle, Guernica, and Lapham's Quarterly. She received an MFA from Columbia University, and she teaches in the Writing Center at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. Her writing has appeared in Poet Lore, and Slate, USA Today, and other magazines. She is the founder and former editor of Nieman Storyboard, the narrative nonfiction website of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

Ellen F. Brown is co-author of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood, a Publishers Weekly top pick. An award-winning freelance journalist, she sits on the boards of the Library of Virginia Foundation and James River Writers.

Kristin Swenson, PhD, is the author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time and Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness. A visiting associate professor at the University of Virginia, she is also affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University.

Colin Dickey is the author of Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith and Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. He is a regular contributor to Lapham’s Quarterly and the LA Review of Books, among other publications.