Deborah Brodie, BA, Columbia University, is a freelance editor and book doctor, formerly at Viking Children’s Books and Roaring Brook Press, and moderator of the New School Forum on Writing for Children. She is the author of Writing Changes Everything and Untying the Knot.

Sheila Lewis, as co-author of Stress-proofing Your Child (Bantam Books), Sheila Lewis has led workshops for parents and teachers and teaches meditation and related workshops at the JCC of Manhattan and citywide. For over fifteen, years, she has written, edited, and published many articles, stories, and curriculum materials  for educational publishers and non-profit organizations, including Girl Scouts of the USA and The Knowledge Project. 

Cate Marvin’s first book of poems, World's Tallest Disaster, was published by Sarabande Books in 2001. It received the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her second books of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was released by Sarabande in August 2007. A current NYFA Fellow, she teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Douglas A. Martin is the author most recently of Your Body Figured (Nightboat Books, 2008), an experimental narrative. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was named an international book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement, and his book of stories, They Change the Subject, was named one of the top ten books of the year in the San Francisco Bay Times. He is also the author of Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother, and In the Time of Assignments, a collection of poetry.

Carolyn MacCullough is the author of the young adult novels, Falling Through Darkness (Roaring Book Press), one of the New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age, Stealing Henry (Roaring Brook Press), and Drawing the Ocean. She holds a BA from Grinnell College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.

Madge McKeithen, MFA, Queens University of Charlotte, is the author of Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change.

Kathleen Ossip, MFA, The New School, is the author of The Search Engine, which won an American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have also appeared in Best American Poetry 2001, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review.

John Reed, MFA, Columbia U.; author of All the World's A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare; novels A Still Small Voice, The Whole, and Snowball's Chance; work has appeared in venues such as TimeOut New York, Artforum, BOMB, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Playboy, and Paper Magazine; writer for award-winning television and film.

Craig Morgan Teicher's first book, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, published by the Center for Literary Publishing, won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His second collection is a book of fables called Cradle Book which will be published by BOA Editions in 2010. New poems were recently published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Post Road, A Public Space, and Jubilat. He works as an editor at Publishers Weekly and also teaches at Pratt Institute.