Ray Van Neste is Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University. His published works include KJV400: The Legacy and Impact of the King James Version and Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship. He and his wife, Tammie, have six children.

Melissa Moore is in her twenty-third year of serving students and faculty at Union University, where she is a Research Coach, Public Services Librarian, and Professor of Library Services. With a B.A. in English literature from Wake Forest University and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, she is the author of several articles related to YA literature, including "The Books of Our Youth." "Reading Beyond our Comfort Zones," and "The Reading Parent." In addition to teaching graduate courses in young adult literature, she has been an avid reader of middle school and YA lit for at least two decades, reviewing about sixty titles each year for Booklist.

John T. Netland is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Union University. He has taught 19th-Century British literature and has written on a variety of Romantic and Victorian writers, as well as the Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo.His articles have appeared in Victorian Poetry, Christianity & Literature, Christian Scholar's Review, Victorian Institute Journal, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Journal of Education and Christian Belief, as well as Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education and other collections.

Jenny Manasco Lowery is Archivist and Associate Professor of Library Services at Union University. A Kentucky native, she received her undergraduate degree at the University of Kentucky and also holds an MDiv and PhD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. She completed a Master of Library Science at Indiana University before coming to Union in 2003. She recently became a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Arthur W. Hunt III is Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World (2003/2013) and Surviving Technopolis: Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments (2013). His work has appeared in Touchstone, Salvo, Modern Age, Modern Reformation, The Christian Research Journal, and Explorations in Media Ecology. He is a member of the Media Ecology Association, founded by Neil Postman.