Jeri Kroll is Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flinders University, South Australia.

Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novel The Three-Day Affair and the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he teaches creative writing.

Kim Wiltshire is a playwright and fiction writer, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, UK.

Professor Craig Batty is Head of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Nigel McLoughlin is Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.