Lucy Jane Bledsoe, world traveler, explorer, hiker, and award-winning novelist

Terry Baum, playwright, performer, Lesbian activist, and world traveler

Vernon Keeve III reads from “My Mother Introduced Me to My Spirit,” based on ghost stories his mother told him as a child

Vernon Keeve III, high school English teacher in Oakland, CA, and director of the Association of Black & Brown Writers

Jeff Mann, author, poet, and teacher of creative writing at Virginia Tech

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

Daniel Curzon, playwright, educator, author of “Something You Do in the Dark” and many other groundbreaking works