• Dillon Bustin, playwright, folklorist, and singer/songwriter with work published through June Appal Recordings, Indiana University Press, International Journal of Folklore Research, and Encyclopedia of Appalachia; and Artistic Director of Hibernian Hall in Boston.
• Linda Hoffman, author, poet, artist, sculptor, and founding editor of Wild Apples, A Journal of Nature, Art and Inquiry.
• Pagan Kennedy, author of the novels Confessions of a Memory Eater and Spinsters, and of the non fiction books Black Livingston and The Dangerous Joy Of Doctor Sex and Other True Stories, among many others; winner of a National Endowments for The Arts Fellowship in fiction and a Massachusetts Cultural Counsel; finalist for the Orange Prize, and regular columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
• Lauren Slater, author of eight books of both fiction and nonfiction, including The 60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals and Opening Skinner's Box: Great Great Psychological Experiments Of the 20th Century; recipient of a 2004 National Endowments for The Arts fellowship; finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for excellence in science writing; essayist with work regularly featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, Elle, and Self and with eight inclusions in The Best American Essays series.

• Sari Boren, museum exhibit developer and writer, partner in the exhibit design firm Wondercabinet Interpretive Design, and author with a new essay in War, Literature & the Arts.
• Judah Leblang, author of the "Life in the Slow Lane" column for Bay Windows, the one-man show "One Man's Journey through the Middle Ages," and the memoir Finding My Place: One Man's Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond.
• Tehila Lieberman, winner of the 2012 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction for her collection Venus in the Afternoon; recipient of the Stanley Elkin Memorial Prize and the Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction prize; and author of the forthcoming novel The Last Holy Man.
• Douglas Trevor, author of the novel Girls I Know (forthcoming from SixOneSeven Books, 2013) and the short story collection The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (University of Iowa Press), winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award for First Fiction; and Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature and Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Michigan.

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