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JENNIFER ANN JANISCH is a first-year creative nonfiction student in George Mason University’s MFA program. She has a BA in English and creative writing from Oswego State University where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Great Lake Review. Currently, she is working on a collection of essays for her thesis, is reading creative nonfiction submissions for So To Speak, and is tutoring in the University Writing Center.

NORAH VAWTER is a first-year MFA student in fiction writing and a research assistant at Mason. She received her BA in English from the College of William and Mary in 2002. Since graduation she has worked in Northern Virginia in various positions as a writer, researcher, and educator. She is now working on a novel. Norah lives in Arlingon, Virginia with her husband.

KATHERINE GRACE KENDALL is a second-year undergraduate student, working toward a major in Communications and a minor in Business. She is the photo editor and style reporter for Mason's newspaper, Broadside, and is a DJ for the campus radio station WGMU. In her spare time, she writes music inspired by the Harry Potter book series and enjoys reading young adult fiction.

NICOLE OCRAN is a second-year undergraduate student, working on her BA in English with a minor in Communcations. She is currently Assistant Style Editor for Broadside. Her favorite flavor of yogurt is peach. She suffers from a severe case of Anglophilia and enjoys watching The Office.

ANNA SOPHIA HABIB is the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center and term faculty in the English Department. She graduated from George Mason University with her Master's of Fine Arts in Nonfiction writing. Anna is currently conducting research with a team of writing center researchers on non-native students' experiences with writing in English and in their native language. She is also working on a book-in-progress, A Block from Bliss Street, about her experiences as a child of the Lebanese civil war.

DR. TERRY MYERS ZAWACKI directs the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and the University Writing Center and, as an English faculty member, regularly teaches nonfiction writing, writing ethnography, freshman and advanced composition, and the teaching of composition. She co-authored, with Christopher Thaiss, Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, published in 2006. Other publications include articles on writing assessment, writing in the disciplines, writing in learning communities, and feminism and composition.