Laura Gamache teaches for Seattle Arts & Lectures’ WITS and was resident poet in Chiloquin, Oregon for three years. Her poems appear in the Far Field, Menacing Hedge, CLR 2010, and in her chapbook, nothing to hold onto. Essays appear on SAL’s WITS Blog and in T&W's Classics in the Classroom.

Ann Teplick is a Seattle poet, playwright, prose writer, and teaching artist who works at Seattle Children’s Hospital with Writers in the Schools, and Child Study Treatment Center with Pongo Teen Writing. She is currently writing a full-length play about the devastation of homophobia among teens.

Cameron Keller Scott is a poet, freelance writer, columnist, and has recently been a writer in residence in Wallowa, Oregon, through Fishtrap, and Chiloquin, Oregon through Chiloquin Visions In Progress.

Merna Hecht, storyteller, poet, and essayist teaches creative writing and humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma and directs the Stories of Arrival Poetry Project with immigrant and refugee youth. Her forthcoming book is on using storytelling and poetry with young people facing trauma and loss.