Linda Yamane is an Rumsien Ohlone author of Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Other Ohlone Stories and When the World Ended, How Hummingbird Got Fire, How People Were Made: Rumsien Ohlone Stories.

Ray Young Bear is a member of the Mesquakie tribe, formerly known as Sauk and Pox. Born November 12, 1950, he has been writing since 1966. Widely anthologized and published frequently in literary magazines, he is the author of a book of poetry, WINTER OF THE SALAMANDER (Harper and Row, 1980). To quote from the jacket notes: "Ray Young Bear began thinking his poems in his native tongue then translating them verbatim. Through ten years of writing he has refined his technique so that the poems while no longer word-for-word translations have become, in essence, an authentic Native American experience, finalized in English." He currently is living in the Mesquakie settlement in Tama, Iowa and putting together an anthology of traditional stories from the Midwest.

Greg Young-Ing is a member of Opasquiak Cree Nation and has a Master's degree from the Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University. He is the former editor of Gatherings: The En'owkin International Journal of First North American Peoples, and a former instructor at the En'owkin International School of Writing. Greg presently resides in Penticton, British Columbia, where he is the manager of Theytus Books, the first Aboriginal publishing house in Canada.

Youyouseyah (Getting Ready) and his sister, Tawa Mana, are a brother-sister writing team. Their literature is of their Hopi-Tewa heritage.