Gail Giewont earned her MFA in poetry and MAT in secondary English education from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught in the English and Literary Arts departments at ARGS since 2011. She is vice president of the Poetry Society of Virginia's Central Region, a co-host of the Virginia Voices online poetry series, and host of the Poetry Life reading series at Self Life books. Her poetry chapbook, Vulture, is available from Finishing Line Press. Winner of the Shann Palmer Poetry Prize and runner-up for the James River Writers Best Unpublished Novel Contest, her poetry and nonfiction can be found in Rappahannock Review, Tusculum Review, Cider Press Review, Indiana Review, Slipstream, and the anthologies Bare and Nine Lives from Life in 10 Minutes Press. She is currently teaching Poetry I, Poetry II, Print & Online Publications (Literary Magazine), and Senior Project.

Julie Geen earned her MFA in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. During her time at VCU, she taught Expository Writing at the Honors College and was the Cabell First Novelist Fellow. One of the original teachers for Richmond Young Writers, she taught creative writing to children of all ages. From 2009-2015, she contributed to the Arts and Culture section of Style Weekly and also wrote two columns for Belle magazine, winning a Virginia Press Award for her work. She has published creative nonfiction essays in three anthologies; her short story in Parhelion Literary Magazine was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards. Her zombie story appears in the anthology Richmond Macabre II. She is currently teaching Thematic Studies II; Creative Nonfiction I, II, and III; and Fiction I, II, and III.

Nate Waggoner's creative writing has appeared in Electric Lit, Barrelhouse, Peach Mag, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. In 2014, he graduated from San Francisco State University with a Master's in fiction writing. He teaches at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. In 2026, he organized the Richmond LitCrawl. This year he will be teaching Creative Writing, Thematic Studies I, and Poetry III.