Michael Dekel's prize-winning poetry and photographs have appeared in print and online in Sketchbook, Zeek, Poetry Midwest, Neon Beam, why vandalism? and Poetica Magazine. He is the author of the poetry and art book, The World Behind It, Chaos. Michael has received top awards in the Reuben Rose Poetry Competition (2008 and 2009), and was co-editor of the Voices Israel Poetry Anthology (2010). He holds degrees in literature, creative writing, and psychology

Dr. KJ Hannah (Channie) Greenberg writes across genres. She currently blogs for The Jerusalem Post and for Natural Jewish Parenting and serves as Associate Editor for both Bound Off and Bewildering Stories. In 2010, French Creek Press published an assemblage of her essays, Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting. In Dec. 2011, Unbound CONTENT released a full-length book of her poetry, A Bank Robber's Bad Luck with His Ex-Girlfriend. In March 2012, Bards and Sages Publishing will issue Don't Pet the Sweaty Things, a compilation of seventy of Hannah's brief fictions. Hannah's creative writing has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and her academic efforts have merited National Endowment for the Humanities honors.

Joan Leegant is the author of Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and the story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship/PEN New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The collection was also selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. New work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Literarian. Since 2007, she has been a regular visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University where she teaches in the Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program.

Risa Miller is an author and professor of creative writing. Her first novel, Welcome to Heavenly Heights, earned her the PEN New England Discovery Award, and became a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback (2004). Her most recent novel is My Before and After Life. Numerous essays and reviews have appeared in Post Road Magazine, the Boston Jewish Film Festival Magazine, and Hadassah Brandeis Institute’s 614 HBI eZINE. Risa serves on the creative writing faculty of Emerson College, and previously taught at Lasell College, the University of Massachusetts and Bar Ilan University.

Sylvia Rouss is the author of over 30 children’s titles, including two beloved series of children's books: Sammy the Spider, and The Littlest series, which includes The Littlest Pair, winner of both the National Jewish Book Award and the Storytelling Award. Her latest children's book, Mitzvah the Mutt, won the Moonbeam Children's Book Award (2010).

Dvora Waysman has been a world –wide syndicated journalist for many years; a teacher of creative writing and the author of 11 books. Her best-selling title, The Pomegranate Pendant, has been made into a movie, "The Golden Pomegranate", and is scheduled to be shown in theaters this year. Dvora has won The Jerusalem Award for her poems, fiction and articles about Jerusalem. She was also selected by Brandeis University to be featured on their 2011 calendar highlighting important Jewish writers around the world.