Susan Petrie is managing director of Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, and has worked in book publishing/printing twenty years. She's done pretty much every job in the house—acquisitions and contracts, production, marketing, publicity, sales and distribution, print + e., and worked in a bookstore, too!

William B. Patrick has published Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City, We Didn't Come Here for This (a memoir in poetry), and Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family, which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges award for fiction. His most recent book is The Call of Nursing.

Amy Ryan is the author of SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes, a memoir about living with the daily challenges of a chronic disease that has no cure. Amy is also a lawyer who helps disease-specific foundations form innovative collaborations to develop new therapies for patients.

Anthony D'Aries is the author of The Language of Men: A Memoir. As director of the writing program at Regis College, he teaches composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. He also teaches creative nonfiction in Bay Path's MFA program as well as writing and literature in prisons and nursing homes.