Shauna Potocky, Poet, "Sea Smoke, Spindrift and Other Spells"

Josh Fortenbery, Writer-Musician, "No Such Thing as Forever"

Kate Troll, Author "All in Due Time"

Lucian Childs, Author, "Dreaming Home"

Annie Bartholomew, Writer-Musician, "Sisters of White Chapel"

Beth Ann Mathews, Author, "Deep Waters"

Melinda Moustakis, Author, "Homestead"

Tommy Orange, Author, "There, There"

Linnea Lentfer, Author, "Hold the Tide"

Bonnie Proudfoot, Author, "Goshen Road"

Erin Heist, Singer-Songwriter, "Another Rainy Day"

Emily Wall, Poet, Professor of English and Creative Writing

Kathryn H. Ross, Writer, Author of "Black Was Not a Label"

Vered Mares, Writers Block Bookstore and Cafe'

Bathsheba DeMuth, Environmental Historian

Jackie Venson, Songwriter and Guitar Ripper

Susan Orlean, Writer for the New Yorker, Author

Annie Boochever, Author, "Fighter in Velvet Gloves"

Andromeda Romano-Lax, Writer, Author, "Plum Rains"

Kim Heacox, Author, Activist, Columnist