Kate Trueblood was awarded the 2013 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and the 2011 Red Hen Press Short Story Award. Her most recent book is The Baby Lottery. Her work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, the L.A. Review, and Glimmer Train. She teaches 1960s Literature and the Lit of War.

Shawn Wong is the author of two novels, Homebase and American Knees, and the editor or co-editor of six anthologies of Asian American and American multicultural literature. He is Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Christine Dumaine Leche is the editor/author of Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan. She taught college courses to American soldiers stationed in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan for University of Maryland. She teaches creative writing at Austin Community College.

William R Borego, long time veteran advocate and writer, has served in Operation Iraqi Freedom twice and Thailand once. He has experience teaching overseas to soldiers during combat operations and currently teaches a writing workshop at the Bellingham Veterans Administration.

Clayton Swansen served seven years in the US Navy as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, and one combat deployment in 2007 to Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He separated from the Navy in 2009 to pursue a bachelors degree at Western Washington University.