Rachel Fershleiser works on Tumblr's strategic outreach team, specializing in publishing, nonprofit, and cultural organizations. Previously she was the Community Manager at Bookish and the Director of Public Programs at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. She is also the co-creator of Six-Word Memoirs and co-editor of the New York Times Bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning and three other books. Her writing has appeared in the anthology My Parents Were Awesome and in The Village Voice, New York Press, Print, Los Angeles Times, National Post, Salon.com, Fray Quarterly and several amazing print and online publications you’ve never heard of.

Larry Smith is founder and editor of the personal storytelling community SMITH Magazine, smithmag.net, the creator of the Six-Word Memoir project (sixwordmemoirs.com) and bestselling book series. An original content innovator, he's built his career around inspiring people, young and old, to tell their stories in fresh and enriching ways. He's reinvented the notion of "writer" and revolutionized the genre of "memoir," inspiring thousands of individuals, classrooms, clubs, nonprofits, churches, and even hospital wards to start telling their best personal stories.

He's also a contributing editor of ESPN Magazine and has been the articles editor of Men's Journal, executive editor of Yahoo Internet Life, a founding editor of P.O.V., as well an editor at Dave Eggers' Might magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Men's Health, Salon, Slate, and elsewhere. He has contributed personal essays to the anthologies "Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion," "Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives," "Cassette From My Ex," "Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Authors Wrestle with the Torah," an "Unstuck: 52 Ways to Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing at Home, at Work & in Your Studio."

Larry has led team-building workshops and spoken on the power of storytelling in schools across America, as well as at foundations and nonprofits, and companies such as ESPN, Twitter, Dell, Shutterfly, Yelp, and Google.

To contact Larry for a speaking engagement or workshop, email: news AT smithmag DOT net.

Born in Miami Beach and now living in London, Dan is a designer, photographer, creative director, and teacher, having spent nearly 30 years working across myriad industries as a consultant, co-founder, and educator.

His first photographic book, Koya Bound, was published in 2016 by Pre/Post in Japan, and won the AIGA Cover Design Award in 2017.

Tysa spent most of her career as a musician, composer, and songwriter. She toured as a rock keyboardist and vocalist, traveled through twenty-six states and Canada before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s. She chronicled the shenanigans of Top 40 musicians on the road—a now defunct profession—writing stories about playing East Coast mafia clubs, meditating in the closet at the Holiday Inn in Atlanta, a band equipment hijacking, and late-night UFO encounters while motoring between gigs.

She has completed her debut novel, Path of Totality, about a Vietnam Veteran of mixed heritage, Ojibwe and White. Ten years after his service, he’s at the end of his rope and holed up in a rest area in Southern Minnesota—following an impetuously decided detour coming back from a funeral. He is about to be reunited with a childhood friend—a caucasian girl he’d known for seven days in the summer of ’62—by means of a photograph materializing on the front seat of her 1973 Dodge Dart as she heads down the same highway. wildcoyotes.com/Totality.html