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Ann Conway received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University in 2007. Ann, who is also a sociologist, grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and has lived in Maine for many years. She has an essay forthcoming in Image.

Lindsey Crittenden is the author of The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray and The View from Below: Stories. Her essays, short fiction, and articles have appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Image, Bellingham Review, The Best American Spiritual Writing, and other publications. She lives in San Francisco, where she teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension. www.lindseycrittenden.com.

Mississippi native, recent Episcopalian, and sometimes Bostonian, Kelly Foster teaches Mythology and American Literature at St. Andrews Episcopal School in Ridgeland, Mississippi. In 2007, she graduated from Seattle Pacific's Master of Fine Arts program.

Laura Bramon Good lives in Washington, DC, where she works on human trafficking issues, haunts the Smithsonian on her lunch hour, and blogs about life in an urban family commune (www.Oakies.Wordpress.com). She received an MA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminar and served as the 2005 Milton Center Fellow at Image, and she has published fiction and non-fiction in Image, Featherproof Press, and Re:generation Quarterly.

Jessica Mesman Griffith writes from Sweet Briar, VA, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her essay about campus abortion protesters, published in Image (#50), was honored as notable in Best American Essays 2007. She is a coordinating editor of the Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies and a contributing editor to Godspy.com. She is the coordinator of international programs for the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

A.G. Harmon teaches Shakespeare, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence, and Writing at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His novel, A House All Stilled, won the 2001 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.

Joel Hartse is a graduate student in the department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His writing about music has appeared in a number of publications including Paste, Christianity Today, Killing the Buddha and Image. He is currently completing a collection of personal essays about faith and popular music that will be published next year.

A native of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Caroline Langston is a convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is a widely published writer and essayist, a winner of the Puschart Prize, and a commentator for NPR’s "All Things Considered."

Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of a "memoir of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, and two fantasy novels -- Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. Jeffrey is a contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine, and he writes about art, faith, and culture for ChristianityToday.com and his own website, LookingCloser.org. He lives in Shoreline, Washington.

Santiago Ramos has written about art, fiction, and film for Commonweal, First Things (online edition), Traces, Catholic Key, and the Kansas City weekly, The Pitch. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at Boston College.

Peggy Rosenthal is director of Poetry Retreats (www.poetryretreats.com) and writes widely on poetry as a spiritual resource. Her books include Praying through Poetry: Hope for Violent Times (St. Anthony Messenger Press) and The Poets’ Jesus (Oxford).

Brian Volck is a pediatrician living in Cincinnati. He co-authored Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine (Brazos Press, 2006) and is a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University’s MFA program in Creative Writing.

Andy Whitman is a Senior Contributing Editor for Paste magazine, where he writes a monthly column called “Listening to My Life,” feature articles, and album reviews. He also contributes reviews for music website All Music Guide and Christianity Today.

Bradford Winters is a screenwriter and poet, and works for The Levinson/Fontana Company as a producer and writer in television. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.