*Neal Barrett, Jr.
author of Prince of Christler Coke

*Austin Bay
author of The Wrong Side of Brightness

*Sarah Bird
author of The Yokota Officers Club and the upcoming The Flamenco Academy and Texas Monthly columnist

John Burnett
NPR correspondent and author of the upcoming book Off the Air

*Liz Carpenter
noted journalist and presidential press secretary and author of Unplanned Parenthood, Start With a Laugh, and Ruffles and Flourishes

*Gregory Curtis
author of Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)

David Garrido, executive chef of Jeffrey's in Austin and author of Nuevo Tex-Mex

James W. Kunetka
New York Times best-selling author of War Day and Nature's End

*D. Anne Love
author of The Puppeteer's Apprentice

James Magnuson
author of The Hounds of Winter (University of Texas Press, September 2005)

Martha McCabe
author of Praise at Midnight

*Trish Murphy
singer-songwriter and cooking/creativity instructor

Joe Nick Patoski
author of Texas Coast (University of Texas Press, October 2005)

David Rice
author of Crazy Loco

*Angela Shelf Medearis
noted author and media personality

*Debra Monroe
author of Shambles

Bruce Ruark
author of Saving Social Security

Glenn W. Smith
author of The Politics of Deceit and the director of DriveDemocracy.org

*Karen Stolz
author of World of Pies and Fanny and Sue

Renee Peterson Trudeau
career and life/balance coach and president of Career Strategists

*Kirk Watson
the former mayor of Austin and chairman of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

*Eddie Wilson
proprietor of Austin's Threadgill's restaurants who is writing a memoir about the Armadillo World Headquarters

*Marion Winik
author of Above Us Only Sky and NPR commentator

*Lawrence Wright
author, screenwriter, and staff writer for The New Yorker