Anna Rasche (The Stone Witch of Florence) is a historian and gemologist who has previously worked in the jewelry collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a curatorial fellow at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Alice Austen (33 Place Brugmann) won the John Cassavetes Award for her debut film Give Me Liberty (writer/producer). Austen currently lives in Milwaukee and is working on a new film and her next novel.
Marcie R. Rendon (Where They Last Saw Her), citizen of the White Earth Nation, is one of O: The Oprah Magazine’s 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now and a McKnight Distinguished Artist Award winner.
Edward Underhill (The In-Between Bookstore) grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures.