Suzanne McConnell’s most recent publications are excerpts from her completed novel and memoirs of Kurt Vonnegut at the Writer’s Workshop. Her fiction has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Hunter College, the VA, and is Fiction Editor for Bellevue Literary Review.

Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the award-winning author of six novels, five books of nonfiction, and a play. Her latest novel, Sand Queen, and nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier, inspired a lawsuit against the Pentagon and the Oscar-nominated film, The Invisible War.

Jim O'Loughlin is an associate professor in the Department of Languages & LIteratures at the University of Northern Iowa. He teaches courses in American literature, creative writing, and professional writing. He currently is working on an edited collection of remembrances of Kurt Vonnegut.

Gregory Sumner

Max Goller is the Director of Veterans and Writers Affairs at the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Memorial Library in Indianapolis, IN. He retired from the United States Navy in 2001 after twenty years of service. Since leaving the military, he has been a teacher of English language arts.