John Warner is the author of seven books, including most recently “Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities” (Johns Hopkins UP) and “The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing” (Penguin), which draw upon his 20 years of experience as a writer and teaching of writing.

He is a contributing writer to Inside Higher Ed, and can be found on Twitter @biblioracle.

Richard Van Camp is a graduate of the En’owkin International School of Writing, the University of Victoria’s Creative Writing BFA Program, and the Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

He is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author. His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a movie with First Generation Films and premiered in September of 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is the author of five collections of short stories, six baby books, three children’s books, five comics and much more.