Bia Lowe's essays have appeared in many magazines and journals, including Salmagundi, The Kenyon Review, Harper's and the webzine Killing the Buddha.  Her work has been anthologized in Another City: Writings From Los Angeles (City Lights Books), Turning Toward Home: Reflections On The Family From Harper's Magazine (Franklin Square Press), Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together (Harper SanFrancisco) and Helter Skelter: L.A. Art In The 1990s (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.)  Lowe's first book, Wild Ride, won the 1996 QPB New Visions Award for creative non-fiction.  She divides her time between California, New York and Ireland.

Deena Metzger founder of The Woman's Building Writers Program, is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over forty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration.  She conducts training groups on the spiritual, creative, political and ethical aspects of healing and peacemaking, individual, community and global, drawing deeply on alliance with spirit, indigenous teachings and the many wisdom traditions.  Metzger is the author of many books, including most recently, the novels La Negra y Blanca and Feral; Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; From Grief Into Vision: A Council; Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; Tree: Essays and Pieces, A Sabbath Among the Ruins, Looking for the Faces of God and Writing For Your Life.

Terry Wolverton  is a literary artist and author of nine books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, including Insurgent Muse: Life And Art At The Woman's Building and most recently the novel, Stealing Angel.  She is currently working with composer David Ornette Cherry on adapting her book, Embers, as a jazz opera.  Wolverton has edited thirteen literary compilations and co-edited, with Sondra Hale, From Site To Vision: The Woman's Building In Contemporary Culture.  She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center where she teaches; and is also an Associate Faculty Mentor in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles and Adjunct Faculty in the M.A. in Arts Management program at Claremont Graduate University.  Wolverton spent thirteen years at The Woman's Building, beginning as a student enrolled in the Feminist Studio Workshop and concluding her time as Executive Director.

Cheryl Klein (moderator) is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press) and The Commuters, which won City Works Press' Ben Reitman Award.  She is a Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient for her novel-in-progress about wayward circus performers.  Klein's fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other and several anthologies.  She directs the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc. by day, and blogs about life, art and carbohydrates at breadandbread.blogspot.com.