Bruce Holland Rogers teaches fiction in the MFA program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and has taught in Finland and Hungary on Fulbright fellowships. He recently received a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission grant to do story research on the Tokaido Road.

JT Stewart teaches poetry at Seattle's Richard Hugo House. She is poetry editor of A Millennium Reflection: Seattle Poets & Photographers. Her poetry broadsides have shown at the Seattle Art Museum, the Allen Library (UW), and the Washington State Convention Center Galleries.

Judy Kronenfeld, Lecturer Emerita, Creative Writing, UC Riverside, was instrumental in creating Reading-for-Writers courses in her department. She is the author of a critical study, King Lear and the Naked Truth, and three books and two chapbooks of poetry; her most recent collection is Shimmer.

Stephanie Barbé Hammer is professor of Comparative Literature at UC Riverside and has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She teaches undergraduate courses that mesh world lit with creative writing, as well as a popular graduate course on pedagogy.

Jo Scott-Coe is author of a memoir in essays, Teacher at Point Blank. Her nonfiction has appeared in many places, including Salon, Fourth Genre, and The Los Angeles Times. She is an associate professor of English at Riverside City College and also leads workshops for the (In)Visible Memoirs Project.