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