Amy Hoffman, memoirist, journalist, activist, consultant, former editor of “Women’s Review of Books”

 

 

 

 

Jim Van Buskirk, book group facilitator, public speaker, exhibit curator, collections manager, essayist, journalist, librarian

 

 

 

 

Olivia Wylie, landscaper and half of the writing team O.E. Tearmann, authors of the “Aces High, Jokers Wild” dystopian future series

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerry L. Wheeler, journalist, editor, and award-winning author

 

 

 

 

Craig Laurance Gidney, award-winning short-story author and novelist

 

 

 

 

Lee Lynch, award-winning author and syndicated columnist (“The Amazon Trail”)

 

 

 

 

Ajuan Mance, visual artist and Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California