Vincent Meis, ESL educator, travel writer, reviewer

Julian Shendelman, contributing editor at the University of Pennsylvania and Trans advocate

Christian Baines, Australian-born self-proclaimed awkward nerd who writes the gay paranormal series “The Arcadia Trust.” He stays in Toronto when he can’t find his passport

[Recorded at Saints + Sinners in New Orleans]

Lara Zielinsky, reviewer, short-story writer, award-winning novelist

Dolores Maggiore, memoirist, YA author, social worker, psychotherapist, and bonne vivante

Eric Poole, memoirist, award-winning commercial writer, and Endora wanna-be

Ali Sands, author, speaker, consultant, founder of “Illuminating Identity.” She kept a journal throughout her partner’s transition, which became the basis of her book “I Know Who You Are, But What Am I?”