Donna Mendelson's essays, poetry, book reviews, and scholarly articles on environmental metaphor, ecocriticism, and Thoreau have been published in Northern Lights, Petroglyph, The Concord Saunterer, Rendezvous, The Bloomsbury Review, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.  She lives and works
in Missoula, Montana.

Sydney Landon Plum has been an adjunct in the English Department of the University of Connecticut since 1999, teaching creative writing and American nature writing. She has for several years strengthened her connection to the place of her summer residence by facilitating a Maine Humanities Council seminar on literature and medicine at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport.  She is the editor of Coming Through the Swamp: The Nature Writings of Gene Stratton Porter. Her nature essays have appeared in "Feeding a Small Fire" in Organization and Environment and "Two geese and a duck on a pond in winter," in ISLE.

Bernie Quetchenbach has published poems and ecocritical essays in journals including Sycamore Review, New Laurel Review, Albatross, Bellingham Review, and Petroglyph.  His articles have appeared in Thoreau's Sense of Place and Ecopoetry, and his book Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century, was published in 2000. 

William Stroup is assistant professor of English at Keene State College, NH.  His primary field is English Romanticism where he is working on the relationship between proto-ecological thought and political nonviolence in the works of Percy Shelley.  His contributions on Romanticism and Ecology have appeared on the online journal Romantic Circles Praxis Series and The Wordsworth Circle.  He teaches courses in 19th Century British Literature, Nature Writing, and the Literature of Nonviolence.

Charlotte Zoe Walker has edited two books on the literary naturalist John Burroughs, Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing, and The Art of Seeing Things: Essays by John Burroughs.  She has also  written a novel, Condor and Hummingbird, published short fiction, including an O. Henry Award story, an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories, and several stories reprinted in anthologies.