Michael Steinberg is founding editor of Fourth Genre. Still Pitching won the ForeWord Magazine/Independent Press Memoir of the Year. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (with Bob Root) is in a 6th edition. He's nonfiction writer in residence in the Solstice MFA program.

Mimi Schwartz's books include Good Neighbors, Bad Times; Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed; and Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (with Sondra Perl). She is professor emerita of Richard Stockton University and a member of OnStage Senior Ensemble of McCarter Theatre, New Jersey.

Phillip Lopate has written over twenty books, most recently, the essay collections Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. He has also edited the anthology Art of the Personal Essay, and directs the MFA nonfiction program at Columbia University.

Richard Hoffman is author of six books, Half the House: A Memoir, the poetry collections Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, and Emblem, Interference & Other Stories, and most recently the memoir Love & Fury. He is Senior Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.

Laurie Stone is author of four books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is My Life as an Animal, Stories. Her short works have appeared in Open City, Fence, Creative Nonfiction, and other journals.