Julija Šukys is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (Winner, Canadian Jewish Book Award) and Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout. Šukys is assistantprofessor of creative writing at the University of Missouri.

Travis Scholl is the author of Walking the Labyrinth. He edits Concordia Journal at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he also teaches writing and preaching. He holds the MDiv from Yale Divinity School and he is a PhD candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Missouri.

Patrick Madden is the author of two essay collections, Quotidiana and Sublime Physick, and editor of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in the Best American Spiritual Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction as well as numerous journals.

Beth Peterson is a nonfiction writer and assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University. A wilderness guide before she began writing, Beth is finishing her first book of lyric essays, set in a disappearing glacial landscape in Norway.

Desirae Matherly teaches writing at Tusculum College, and serves as nonfiction editor for the Tusculum Review. Desirae earned a PhD in creative nonfiction from Ohio University in 2004 and is a former Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago.