As chair of the English Department of Nassau Community College, Diana Roberts Wienbroer coordinated a department of 150 faculty members and served on the National Executive Council of the Association of Departments of English. Besides teaching writing for over thirty years, both in Texas and New York, she has studied and taught film criticism. She is also the author of Rules of Thumb for Online Research. Since her retirement from NCC, she has taught seminars on Internet research and effective business writing.

Elaine Hughes taught writing for more than twenty-five years—primarily at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi, and at Nassau Community College. After her retirement from NCC and her return to Mississippi, she conducted many writing workshops for the Esalen Institute and for other organizations. In 2000 she won a Mississippi Arts Council grant for creative non-fiction. She is also the author of Writing from the Inner Self. In 2001 Elaine Hughes passed away after 20 years of victories over breast cancer.

A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia, Jay Silverman has received fellowships from the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has taught at Virginia Highlands Community College and at Nassau Community College where he received the Honors Program award for Excellence in Teaching and where he also teaches in the College Bound Program of the Nassau County Mental Health Association.