Kaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, a New York Times bestseller, "The Descendants," has been published in twenty-two other countries and is an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection "House of Thieves," the novels "How to Party with an Infant" and "The Possibilities," and the YA novel "Juniors." She lives in Hawaii.

Before joining OSU-Cascades, Kaely taught college composition and worked as an assistant coordinator at the Oregon State University Writing Center in Corvallis. She has an MA in Literature from Oregon State and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire. When she’s not working with students, Kaely spends her spare time hiking in the desert, writing novels, playing tabletop board games and slowly learning to ski.

With over 15 years of experience in education, Jeremy has honed his skills in the classroom as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at an international school, working with students from around the world. He also worked as an academic and behavioral coach for college students and young adults before accepting the position of career advisor at OSU-Cascades. Jeremy adds to his life experience by having lived abroad in Uppsala, Sweden and Seoul, South Korea.

Joshua Mohr is the author of the memoirs “Model Citizen” (2021) and "Sirens," as well as five novels including "Damascus," which The New York Times called "Beat-poet cool." He’s also written "Fight Song" and "Some Things that Meant the World to Me," one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as "Termite Parade," an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times. His novel "All This Life" won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial.