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 Bread, performed on Broadway.
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 in Point Clear, Alabama.
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 Raines is a partner in the New York literary agency Raines & Raines. 
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.
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.
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.
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.

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Special thanks go to Robert Phillips of the University of Houston for choosing our judge novelist and poet Paul Ruffin and to Jack Bedell of the University of Southeastern Louisiana for choosing our judge novelist Norman German. The judges had a most difficult task. Their contribution is very much appreciated.