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Jerry Bledsoe
Jerry Bledsoe is the author of the New York Times number one bestseller Bitter Blood, as well as two other national bestsellers, Blood Games and Before He Wakes, and many other books. He has been contributing editor for Esquire, a reporter and columnist for the Greensboro, North Carolina, News & Record, The Charlotte Observer, and the Louisville Times. Three of his books were made into movies and mini-series for CBS, and a feature film of The Angel Doll was released for Christmas 2000. His work also has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He lives in Randolph County, North Carolina, with his wife, Linda.
Jane Bonander
Jane Bonander’s first novel, Secrets of a Midnight Moon, sold to St. Martin's Press in 1990 and was heralded as 'sensitive and sensuous, violent and tender.' Since then she has published nine full length novels and four anthologies, all dealing with the perils and passions of romantic historical fiction. She graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in American and Russian History revealing that, "while all of my stories are set in the US, I had hoped one day to set one in Russia, though in my opinion, the best ones have already been written." Jane continues to write and also edits for Melange Books. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Richard Noer.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.
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Regina N. Bradley
Dr. Regina N. Bradley is an alumna Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow (Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Spring 2016), Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University, and co-host of the critically acclaimed southern hip hop podcast Bottom of the Map with music journalist Christina Lee. Bradley is the author of Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South (Peter Lang, 2017), Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South (UNC Press, 2020), and editor of The Outkast Reader (University of Georgia Press, 2020).
Jaz Brisack
Jaz Brisack is the organizing director of the Inside Organizer School, which they co-founded in 2018 to train non-union workers and “salts” to unionize their workplaces. They first started organizing in Mississippi, working on the UAW campaign at the Nissan factory in Canton, Miss, and volunteering as a Pinkhouse Defender at the state's last abortion clinic. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Jaz got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United in Upstate New York and Vermont, they subsequently worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry's to Tesla.
Wilt Browning
Wilt Browning (1937-2021) of Kernersville was long considered one of the southeast’s premier sports writers and columnists. A resident of North Carolina since 1977, Browning was named the state’s Sports Writer of the Year five times (in 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990 and 1993). He was the seventh sports writer to be inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame. As a journalist who spent most of his career covering sports, Browning worked for the Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital and State Journal, The Greenville (SC) News, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Greensboro (NC) News & Record and the Asheville Citizen-Times. During a six-year period out of the newspaper business in the 1970s, Browning also served as public relations director for two National Football League teams, the Atlanta Falcons and the Baltimore Colts. He is the winner of a number of journalism awards, including his five-time selection as North Carolina’s Sports Writer of the Year. For a decade he has served on the board of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame including two years, 2007-08, as the Hall’s president. In between all this, Browning authored seven books, many of them about athletes and coaches.
Jill Louise Busby
Jill Louise Busby is a writer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator who has a loyal following of over 70,000 people on Instagram. Her web series, Moms as Managers, has over 250,000 views and features Jill and her easily-mistaken-as-twin mother, Alma, as they deliberate, deride, and devise (but never quite agree on) a menagerie of millennial anguishes—including, but not exclusive to ambition, belonging, race, and identity.