Brian Dirck is a Professor of history at Anderson University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, specializing in the American Civil War, military and legal history. He has written numerous books and articles on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, including Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865, and Lincoln the Lawyer, which recently won the Barondess Award from New York's Civil War Roundtable. He is currently writing a book on Lincoln and race, to be published in 2010.

David Hassler is the President of the Writers' Center of Indiana's Board of Directors and a long-time member of the Writers' Center faculty. He holds an MFA from Spalding University, where he worked with Sena Jeter Naslund, Brad Watson, and Silas House. His award-winning work has been published in journals including Maize and the Santa Fe Writers' Project, and he has served as student editor for The Louisville Review. He is editor for the Writers' Center's Flying Island and is working on his second novel while his first is seeking a home.

David Liverett has been drawing pen and ink lighthouses since he, his wife, Avis, and their son, Mark, lived in Maine in the 1970's.  He has worked as an illustrator since his days as a student at Anderson University in Indiana and has managed his own agency, D. Liverett Graphics, since moving back to Indiana in the late 1970's. Recently he has traveled to both coasts and from northern Michigan to Florida sketching over 60 lighthouses. David Liverett and his wife Avis live in Anderson, Indiana. They have a son , Mark, and two grandchildren, Connor Mark and Clare Anne.
 

Dr. David Thomas Murphy is the author of three books, including The Heroic Earth: Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, and the forthcoming Murder in Their Hearts: The True Story of the Fall Creek Massacre. He is a professor of history at Anderson University, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1992. He currently serves as chair of the Department of History and Political Science, and Co-Director of the Anderson University Honors Program.