Anthony Grooms is Professor Emeritus in Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University, and a GWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. His novels, Bombingham and The Vain Conversation, and his story collection, Trouble No More, have been broadly adopted for college courses. Grooms writes on a variety subjects in several genres from historical fiction to science fiction, however his most notable work has been about the American Civil Rights Movement. His work has been awarded prizes form Hurston-Wright, Lillian Smith, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2025 Grooms was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

Andrea Jurjević is a Croatian poet, writer and literary translator. She is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, winner of the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize; “Small Crimes,” winner of the 2015 Philip Levine Prize; and “Nightcall,” which was the 2021 ACME Poem Company Surrealist Series selection. Andrea’s book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. To learn more, visit: https://andreajurjevic.com/

Kurt Edward Milberger is an Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University. He teaches publishing, professional writing, and literature courses with an emphasis on book history and material culture. He's currently researching a book on censorship and preparing an edition of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler.He’s worked for several academic journals, and he studies literature, as well as editorial history, theory, and practice. After recently relocating his book collection to Georgia, he longs to no longer delight in books as material objects, but he has too great a fondness for the art of bookmaking.

Madison Hatfield is a screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker born and based in Atlanta, GA. Her latest short film “I Could Dom” is on the festival circuit now and has played at several Oscar-qualifying festivals including Austin Film Festival and Palm Springs ShortFest. She and frequent collaborator Jono Mitchell are currently writing a feature film adaptation of the YA novel The Sky Blues for Walden Media. As an actor, she has appeared on several shows including Atlanta (FX), Chicago Med (NBC), and The Other Black Girl (Hulu). She is proudly represented by The Gotham Group as a writer and director and Stewart Talent as a performer. Learn more at www.madisonhatfield.com.