Tom Baker is an executive with Reader’s Digest magazine.

Billy Al Bengston is a painter living in Los Angeles. 

James Berg is co-editor of The Isherwood Century which won a Lambda award.

Jacqueline Bisset starred in The Deep, The Detective, Bullit, and many other films. She was born in Weybridge, Surrey, and lives in Los Angeles.

John Boorman, director and writer, lives in Ireland. His films include Deliverance, Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, Zardoz, Excalibur, and The Tailor of Panama.

Thaddeus Brown is a painter who lives in San Francisco.

Kate Bucknell lives in London and is editor of The Isherwood Diaries.

R. V. Cassill, editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, is the author of twenty-two novels. He has taught at Iowa, Brown, Harvard, and Columbia universities.

Michael Childers is a photographer who lives in Los Angeles.

Charles Connell is the former Academic Vice President of the University of Northern Arizona.

Dagny Janss Corcoran is a specialist in art catalogues. She lives in Springville, California.

Ronald Crist is publisher of Lumen Books and former professor of English at Rutgers University.

David C. England is President of North Lake College and former President of the Chamber of Commerce of Las Colinas.

Robert Flynn has published several novels and story collections. He recently retired from Trinity University.

Richard Fredricks lives in Los Angeles. He was a leading baritone at the New York City Opera and performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera as well.

Chris Freeman co-edited The Isherwood Century. He co-edits www.theisherwoodcentury.com.

Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women Had Wings (an Oprah Book Club selection) and other novels.

John Friedl is the Provost at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Lynn Gardner is a psychologist and professor in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Tess Gallagher has published several books of poems and is the widow of Raymond Carver.

Constance Gee is an authority on art an public policy and a professor at Vanderbilt University.

E. Gordon Gee is Chancellor of Vanderbilt University.

Fred Granade is a lawyer in Bay Minette, Alabama.

Edwin Honig is a poet and translator. A professor emeritus at Brown, he has been knighted by the Presidents of both Spain and Portugal.

John Ladner is a Judge in Los Angeles.

A.J. Langguth’s latest book is Our Vietnam. A professor at the University of Southern California, he has published novels, histories, and biographies.

Joanna Leake directs the creative writing program at the University of New Orleans. Her novel A Day at Weasel Creek was made into a film.

Mark Lipscomb is a painter in Los Angeles.

Dan Luckenbill works with special collections at UCLA.

Jack Larson has written librettos for music by Virgil Thompson and others and has produced films (Urban Cowboy) as well. He acted in the original Superman series

Ron Martin lives in New York. He is Past Chairman and Fellow, International Association of Business Communicators.

Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City and lives in San Francisco.

Jean McIver edited Black Alabama. She has served on numerous boards for writers and the humanities.

J. T. Martin is owner of the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington, Texas.

T. K. Meier, President of Elmira College, is a Defoe scholar.

David Scott Milton's  latest novel is The Fat Lady Sings. He teaches at the University of Southern California. His plays include Duet, performed on Broadway.

Robert Nelsen is a writer and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Rick Noguchi, poet and winner of the AWP poetry series, is program manager of Writers and Literature Programs at UCLA.

Chris Pasles writes for The Los Angeles Times. He formerly directed the Performing Arts Program at USC.

Richard Pate is a lawyer who lives in Point Clear, Alabama and Montecito, California.

Robert Phillips holds a distinguished chair at the University of Houston and directs their creative writing program. He has published twenty-five books, including his latest book of poems, Spinach Days.

Joan Agajanian Quinn writes for Art Review and other publications and hosts her own television program on the arts in Los Angeles.

Joan Raines is a partner in the New York literary agency Raines & Raines. 

Frances Kroll Ring's book Against the Current, As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been made into a film.

Doris Roberts has won an Emmy and was chosen as TV Guide’s Supporting Actress of the Year in a Comedy Series (2001). She is featured in “Everybody Loves Raymond.”

James Schevill has published books of poems, plays, and a novel. He formerly directed the creative writing program at Brown University.

John Schlesinger directed (and won the Oscar for) Midnight Cowboy. His other films include Sunday Bloody Sunday, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Next Best Thing.

Rainer Schulte is founding president of the American Literary Translators Association. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as collections of world literature. He is Professor of Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Artie Shaw is a musician.

Michael F. Shugrue is a former president of The College English Association. His edited books include the widely used text The Conscious Reader.

John Sledge is the Book Editor of the Mobile Register.

Steven Smith writes fiction and recently worked for the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Gary Stephens is a film writer who lives in Chicago.

Geoffrey Strachan, translator, is former publisher of Methuen London Ltd.

Gloria Stuart was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her role as Rose in Titanic. She recently published her autobiography I Never Stopped Hoping.

Jeanie Thompson, founder of the Alabama Writers' Forum, has published several books of poetry, including White for Harvest.

Kay WalkingStick is Professor of Art at Cornell University and recently exhibited at the June Kelly Gallery in New York and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts. Her work is included in Jansen’s History of Art.

Paul Wonner is a painter who lives in San Francisco.

Michael York has starred in Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret, and the Austin Power series.