Jonathan Marine is a PhD student in George Mason University's Writing & Rhetoric program where his research centers on the life, theory, and work of James Moffett. He was named the 2020 recipient of the James Moffett Award by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Paul Rogers is Associate Professor of Writing Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the former Director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project, one of the principal co-founders and the immediate past chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR), and a co-editor of five collections.

Sheridan Blau is Professor of Practice in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor of English and Education (Emeritus) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directed the South Coast Writing Project and Literature Institute for Teachers. He is also a former President of NCTE. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of composition and literature. His book, The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers, received NCTE's Richard Meade Award for outstanding research in English education.

Kathleen Kelly has been a teacher for over twenty years. Over the course of her career, she has taught at the middle school, high school, college, and graduate school levels. She has earned two master's degrees along the way and is currently working to complete her PhD in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.