Jessica Walters has an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. Her work has been published in Ormsby Review, Still, Agape Review, and her short story "Glass Jars" was shortlisted for the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing. She teaches at a Trinity Western University and is the faculty advisor of [spaces]. 

Connie T. Braun is a Canadian poet and author and has published two books of non-fiction and two poetry chapbooks along with academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews, in various journals and anthologies in Canada, the US and UK. Her poetry has been set to musical compositions, and she has given talks and readings in North America and Europe. Connie has instructed creative writing in the university setting and enjoys mentoring undergraduate writers and editors. As the former faculty advisor for [spaces] she introduced guest contributions to [spaces] that have included two former Canadian Governor General Award Winners, Rudy Wiebe (prose) and George Elliot Clark Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate (poetry) and priest Malcolm Guite, renowned UK poet, among others, and she continues to foster relationships between student writers and a range of established writers. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and other Canadian writing associations, and in addition to [spaces] has served on boards for other arts organizations.

Lynn R. Szabo is a devoted scholar of the poet, mystic, and political activist Thomas Meron. She is the editor of the first comprehensive selection of his poetry, In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions, 2005), and is Professor Emerita of English Literature, Trinity Western University. In her retirement, Lynn serves as a spiritual director, mentor to writers and young professors, and a facilitator of study groups for the National Council of Jewish Women. Her decades of studying poetry, especially Merton's are one of the pleasures not interrupted by her more recent life as a wheelchair navigator.