Jo Ann Beard is the author of the novel In Zanesville and the essay collection The Boys of My Youth.
Sven Birkerts is the author of nine books, including The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, My Sky Blue Trades, and, most recently, The Other Walk: Essays. His next collection, On or About: Writing the Digital Divide, will be published by Graywolf Press. Editor of the journal AGNI, he also directs the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Mark Costello is the author of two novels, including the National Book Award finalist Big If. He lives in New York City.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College. He is the author or editor of a number of scholarly books on modernist literature and popular music studies.
Anne Fadiman is the author of At Large and At Small, Ex Libris, and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, and is at work on a short memoir about her father and wine. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.
Gerald Howard is an executive editor at Doubleday. He acquired and edited David Foster Wallace’s first novel, The Broom of the System, when he was an editor at Penguin Books in the 1980s, and he subsequently published Wallace’s story collection Girl with Curious Hair at W. W. Norton.
Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007), and Gods Without Men (2011), as well as a short-story collection, Noise (2006), and a novella, Memory Palace (2013). He was a 2008 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New York City.
Nam Le is the author of The Boat.
Nick Maniatis is the owner of The Howling Fantods (http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw), a website that has been dedicated to promoting the works of David Foster Wallace for eighteen years. He is also an English teacher at Campbell High School in Canberra, Australia.
Deborah Treisman is the Fiction Editor of The New Yorker.
David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of the novella Labyrinth. His other books include The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and the Library of America’s Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. He is book critic of the Los Angeles Times.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sally Foster Wallace received her MA in English from the University of Illinois. From 1973 until her retirement in 2003, she was a professor of English at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named her the national Outstanding Community Colleges Professor of 1996. She is the author of Practically Painless English.