Kara Poe Alexander is Professor of English in Professional Writing and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Baylor University. She's also Managing Director of the Center for Writing Excellence. Her research examines the ways that writers enact literacy practices and identity within multiple sites of writing. Her publications include a co-edited book, Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer (Utah State University Press) and articles in College Composition and Communication, College English, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, the Journal of Business and Technical Writing, Literacy in Composition Studies, Rhetoric Review, and other scholarly journals and edited collections.

Professor Emerita, English Department, Sonoma State University. Author of Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, SUNY Press, 2013, www.passionatecommitments.com. Co-author of Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press, Lever Press, 2023. Open access: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12737267.

Jen Almjeld is a professor of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication at James Madison University. Her research interests include girlhood, online identity, digital rhetorics, fatness rhetorics and research methods.

Dr. Michelle Bachelor Robinson is a distinguished educator, scholar, and community advocate with a profound dedication to the performing arts and community engagement. She currently serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Writing Program and faculty member in the Department of English at Spelman College. Her academic and professional expertise includes community engagement, historiography, rhetoric and literacy, composition pedagogy, and student and program assessment, with a commitment to bridging academia and community.

Will (he/him) is professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. In addition to directing the University Writing Program and the Tar River Writing Project, Will teaches courses in writing, research, and pedagogy, as well as LGBTQ and young adult literatures. His essays on digital rhetorics, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, pedagogy, and writing program administration have appeared in several recent books, as well as in College Composition & Communication, College English, and Computers & Composition. He has edited five collections of scholarship, including English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (2021) and Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects (2019). His co-authored monograph Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment (2023) challenges many of our field’s values around writing and assessment in order to ask how we might reimagine our work through a new model: queer validity inquiry. Failing Sideways has been awarded the 2024 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award and has received Honorable Mentions for the 2024 CCCC Best Book Award and the 2024 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.

Brittany J. Barron received her Bachelor’s in English from the University of North Georgia, Gainesville in 2016, her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University in 2019, and her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Florida State University in 2024. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Poetry South, The Pinch, and The Atlanta Review, among other journals. Her research has been published by The Edith Wharton Society and The Journal of Popular Culture.

Leslie Beegle (He/Him) I’m a third year PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University. I’m interested in critical archival studies, decoloniality, and trans archives.

Sally F. Benson is an independent scholar whose interests include prison education and prison history in New Mexico, historiography, collective memory, and community archives. She teaches at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.