Richard Rhodes is the author of The Ungodly, Inland Ground, Sons of Earth, The Ozarks, Looking for America, The Last Safari, Holy Secrets, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Farm and A Hole in the World.

Wilma Yeo is the author of Mrs. Neverbody's Recipes, Mystery of theThird Twin, Oliver Twister and His Big Little Sister, Maverick with a Paint Brush (co-author), Gypsy Summer, Girl in the Window and Stranger at Winfield House.

William Least Heat-Moon is the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth.

William Stafford is the author of Traveling Through the Dark, Kansas Poems of William Stafford, and 33 other books.

Don Coldsmith is the author of The Changing Wind, The Traveler, World of Silence and 22 other books in the Spanish Bit Saga series, Horsin' Around Again and The Smoky Hill.

Maxine Clair is the author of Rattlebone and Coping With Gravity.

Nancy Pickard is the author of Generous Death, Say No to Murder, No Body, Marriage Is Murder, Dead Crazy, Bum Steer, I.O.U., But I Wouldn't Want to Die There, Confession, Twilight and The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders.

C.W. Gusewelle is the author of A Paris Notebook, An Africa Notebook, Quick as Shadows Passing: C.W. Gusewelle's Book of Cats, Dogs and Children, Far From Any Coast: pieces of America's Heartland, A Great Current Running: the U.S. - Russian Lena River Expedition, and Another Autumn: the Rufus Chronicle.

June Rae Wood is the author of The Man Who Loved Clowns, A Share of Freedom, When Pigs Fly, Turtle on a Fence Post, and About Face.

Daniel Woodrell is the author of Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, The Ones You Do, Give Us a Kiss, Tomato Red and Woe to Live On.

Lisa Campbell Ernst is the author of When Bluebell Sang, Ginger Jumps, Duke the Dairy Delight Dog, and Goldilocks Returns.

Thomas Fox Averill is the author of Passes at the Moon, Seeing Mona Naked and Secrets of the Tsil Cafe.

Gary Blackwood is the author of The Shakespeare Stealer, Attack of the Mushroom People and The Dying Sun.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of Song of Sorcery, Healer's War and Channeling Cleopatra .