Per Henningsgaard is the director of publishing as well as an assistant professor of English at Portland State University. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study in Australia.

Alison Mary Baverstock began her career in publishing and is now a consultant. She has written widely about the industry benefitting from her perspectives as publisher, author, and academic. In 2005, she co-founded the MA Publishing at Kingston University, a course she now leads.

Anne Converse Willkomm is the director of the Graduate Publishing Programs at Rosemont, which consists of the MA in Publishing and the Graduate Certificate in ePublishing.

Lisa Diercks teaches publication design and directs the graduate publishing program at Emerson College. Recent publishing clients include Boston Review, Carnegie Museum, DaCapo, Houghton Mifflin, and Ploughshares, among others. Both she and her students have received multiple awards for design.

Andrea Chambers is director of the MS in Publishing: Digital and Print Media program at New York University, the NYU Summer Publishing Institute, and international Executive Education seminars. A former book and magazine executive, her writing has been published in America's leading magazines.