Bate is an international leader in green thinking and applied humanities, with scholarly expertise in sustainability as well as in Shakespeare, life-writing, Romanticism, contemporary poetry, theatre, and visual culture.

Ach teaches courses in interdisciplinary and liberal studies, and her research often combines insights from literary studies, the desert humanities, and land management history.

Susan Rigetti is the editor of Future Tense and a Professor of Practice at ASU.

Ms. Litchfield is a PhD English Creative Writing student at Binghamton University. She teaches at BU and ASU. Her interests include American Literature, trauma studies, feminist memoir, and writing pedagogy.