Kyle Turner, essayist, and film critic whose work has appeared in Playboy, The Village Voice, Slate, and The New York Times

Karen Poppy, poet, librettist, attorney, and equestrian

Gus Klein, screenwriter, voice actor, and former interior decorator

Len M. Ruth, self-professed nerd who enjoys inventing musical instruments and telling stories

Aaron Shurin, poet, essayist, and retired educator

Frank Arthur Smith, screenwriter and actor who has tidied up with Mary Kondo

Shannon T.L. Kearns, playwright, speaker, storyteller, and ordained priest

Felice Cohen, journalist, memoirist, and former occupant of a tiny apartment in New York

David Eugene Perry, journalist, co-founder of the San Francisco Rainbow Honor Walk, creator of “10 Percent,” and host of the video interview show “Ahoy!”

Redfern Jon Barrett, British-born essayist and advocate for LGBTQ+ and Polyamory rights who now lives in Berlin