Susan Isaacs

Susan Isaacs is a writer, performer and professor with many credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410573 ) in TV, film and stage. She is an alumnus of the famed Groundlings comedy troupe, has contributed to Relevant Magazine, public radio, and performed at the Comedy Central Stage and Upright Citizen's Brigade theaters.  She has written for TV and film and is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine and Azusa Pacific Universities, where she teaches screenwriting, acting and sketch comedy.  Susan also performs, speaks and teaches at prominent Christian conferences throughout the country.  Her comedy memoir, Angry Conversations With God,  (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446555444 ) was voted a Top Ten Religion book by Publishers Weekly and Relevant Magazine.  She toured the US and Canada with author Donald Miller, performing a solo show based on the book.

Daniel Taylor

Daniel Taylor (Ph.D., Emory University) is the author of ten books, including The Myth of Certainty, Letters to My Children, Tell Me A Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories, and, most recently, Creating a Spiritual Legacy. Dr. Taylor is also co-founder of The Legacy Center, an organization devoted to helping individuals and organizations identify and preserve the values and stories that have shaped their lives. He is a contributing editor of Books and Culture.

Susanna Childress

Susanna Childress’ second volume of poetry, Entering the House of Awe, will be published in October of 2011 as part of the Green Rose Series by New Issues Press. Her first book, Jagged with Love, was selected by Billy Collins for the 2005 Brittingham Prize as well as the 2006 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, given to the best book of poetry in the previous year. She has recent poems in The Southern Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Alaska Quarterly, and Colorado Review. She lives and teaches in Holland, Michigan.

Brett Foster

Brett Foster's first book of poetry, The Garbage Eater, was published last year (Triquarterly Books / Northwestern University Press). His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Ascent, Books & Culture, Boston Review, Hudson Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Pleiades, Poetry East, Raritan, Sewanee Theological Review, and Southwest Review, as well as in the Best New Poets series and American Religious Poems (Library of America). He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Wheaton College.

Albert Haley

Albert Haley has been writing and publishing for more than three decades. He is the author of the story collection Home Ground, called by Larry McMurtry, “The best fiction we have about contemporary Alaska,” and Exotic, winner of the John Irving First Novel Prize. Haley’s early stories appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone. More recently he was winner of Rattle magazine’s  annual poetry prize and the Elmer Kelton Prize in Nonfiction. Haley’s latest fiction focuses on stories in which everyday life collides with the divine, an emerging genre he calls “spiritual realism.” Since 1997 Haley has served as writer in residence at Abilene Christian University. He is especially proud of his creative writing students and the many awards they have received over the years for their fiction, poetry and nonfiction.