Rema Boscov is a writer and artist, and she has taught art and writing for various colleges, for councils on aging, and at national workshops.  She has been a National Parks Artist-in-Residence, and selections of her paintings and poetry have been exhibited at The Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor, ME.

Laura Cowan teaches literature at the University of Maine - Orono.  She has published on W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Rebecca West.  She is also Co-Editor of Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry published by the National Poetry Foundation.  She has run several workshops on Rachel Carson, and has worked with the National Association for Environmental Education and Project Learning Tree.

Katie Dolan is a non-profit strategic planning consultant with over 25 years of experience in senior level health care management and serves on several Boards.  She is the director of  the Eastern New York Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Steven P. Holmes is an independent scholar and educator in Boston and one of the leading theoreticians of environmental life-writing. He has taught environmental history, literature, and life-writing at Harvard University and at the Cambridge (Mass.) Center for Adult Education, and is the author of The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography. In addition, he is the editor of the Blue Ocean Institute's Sea Stories.

Libby Hopkins is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where she administers grants to state fish and wildlife agencies in the northeast for environmental education programs and research.  She has published natural history articles on right whales, waterfowl banding and a Massachusetts barrier beach.  She also wrote the text for a book of photography: Land of the Commonwealth, A Portrait of the Conserved Landscapes of Massachusetts.

Christoph Irmscher has taught at the University of Bonn, the University of Tennessee, and Harvard University.  His research and teaching interests include 19th-century American literature, Canadian Literature, and Literature and Science.  He is the author of The Poetics of Natural History and John James Audubon, Writings and Drawings.

Mitch LesCarbeau is Professor of English at Green Mountain College.  He has published poetry in over fifty journals and literary magazines, including The New England Review, The Nation, and The Carolina Quarterly. He is a winner of the Discovery/The Nation Prize, The Grolier Prize, and he is currently working on a book-length prose piece on sailing, some of which he read at the 2006 NEW-CUE Conference and Workshop.