• Alden Jones, Bread Loaf Scholar, Emerson College faculty member, and recent visiting professor of English on Semester at Sea, whose short stories and essays have appeared in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Time Out New York, Gulf Coast, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere
• Michael Palmer, M.D., associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program and author of The Fifth Vial, The Society, Fatal, The Patient, Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, The Sisterhood, and the recent New York Times Best Seller, The First Patient
• Jon Papernick, author of the novels The Ascent of Eli Israel and Who by Fire, Who by Blood, and teacher of fiction writing at Emerson College
• Ted Weesner, Jr., author of fiction selected as a Best American Notable and published in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere; and  recipient of the PEN/New England Discovery Award, a MacDowell Colony residency, and Somerville Arts Council grant
   

• Hans Brinckmann
• Deborah Iwabuchi
• Sarah Mulvey
• Owen Schaefer

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