Nancy Seligmann is the author of two creative nonfiction books: Homesteading in the City and My Dear Helen. She is a professor of English and the chair of the English department at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. She resides in Chelsea with her husband, Dale Schumann.

Stephen Rogers is a writer and memoirist and a decorated veteran of World War II. His book “Interlude at St. Die” is a work of fiction based on his experiences serving in France.

Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poems and three books of essays. A book of stories, Apparations & Late Fictions will be published in 2010. Lynch’s essays, poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, the New York Times and Times of London, the New Yorker and Paris Review and elsewhere.

Saleem Peeradina is the author of First Offence, Group Portrait and Meditations on Desire. The Ocean in my Yard, a prose memoir of growing up in Bombay, was published by Penguin Books in 2005. Saleem is an Associate Professor of English at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.

ML Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer, and he is the author of 13 books including the award-winning Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream. Liebler has taught English, American Studies, Labor Studies, Canadian Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980.

Peter Lewis got his start as a member of a surf band by the name of The Cornells and he went on to become a founding member of Moby Grape, one of the greatest American bands of all time. Moby Grape released their first album in 1967 and it’s still one of the most revered rock albums of all time.

Jim Daniels won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies. Two other books were published in 2007, his third collection of short fiction, Mr. Pleasant, and his eleventh book of poems, In Line for the Exterminator. In 2005, Daniels wrote and produced the independent film Dumpster, and Street, a book of poems accompanying the photographs of Charlee Brodsky.

Diane Shipley DeCillis is a poet and the owner of the Lido Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan.