One Ring Zero is Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp. They have performed regularly at music venues around New York City as well as cultural centers including the Whitney Museum of Art, Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park and Central Park Summer Stage. Their music has been featured in dance concerts, films and animations, fashion shows, and NPR programming including This American Life, Fresh Air and The Next Big Thing. Their most recent album, As Smart As We Are, a book-cum-CD, features songs with lyrics contributed by many of North America's bestselling and prize-winning authors.

Jonathan Ames  is the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and Wake Up, Sir!.  He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, GQ, Slate, NY Press, the Village Voice and McSweeney's.

Paul Auster  is the author of eleven novels including The New York Trilogy, The Music of Chance and The Book of Illusions.  He also wrote and directed Lulu on the Bridge, Smoke  and Blue in the Face.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of The Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed with its own live soundtrack, and the author of Rest Area, a collection of short stories, and Miss Corpus, a novel.

Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney’s, and has written three books including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2002, Eggers co-founded 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based educational non-profit for young people.

Amy Fusselman  is the author of The Pharmacist’s Mate.  She edits a website called “Surgery of Modern Warfare” and is the mother of King.

Not only is  Myla Goldberg the author of Bee Season, but she also plays accordion, banjo and flute. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Jason Little.

Lawrence Krauser  is the author of the novel Lemon and of numerous plays, including Wall Street Made Simple and The Camelot Complex. He wrote and directed the feature film Horrible Child, currently in post-production.

Jonathan Lethem  is the author of six novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critic's Circle Award. Lethem also wrote three story collections and edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2001. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Rick Moody  is the author of the novels Garden State, The Ice Storm and Purple America, two short story collections, and a non-fiction work, The Black Veil.

Darin Strauss  is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and the New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002." He teaches writing at New York University and Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.