is the nation's leading expert on usage, grammar and style. He is the acclaimed author of Garner's Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Oxford Dictionary of Usage and Style (Oxford University Press, 2000), and the Chicago Manual of Style’s definitive chapter on grammar (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Garner has spent much of his career teaching Plain English to lawyers, and if he can do that, he can teach anyone how to write with clarity, grace and efficiency.

is the author of more than a dozen highly regarded Texas histories, including the lauded Texas (Doubleday, 1987), his landmark Sam Houston (University of Okla-homa Press, 2002) and the much-praised Passionate Nation (The Free Press, 2006). Most recently, he is the co-author of Joaquin Jackson’s sequel memoir, One Ranger Returns (University of Texas Press, 2008).

is a Texas treasure. Widely acknowledged as the finest living author of Westerns (and now a memoirist), his titles include The Good Old Boys, The Time It Never Rained and Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy. His new memoir is Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer (Forge, 2007).

is the founder of The Texana Foundation. He is the author of the award-winning borderlands history The River Has Never Divided Us (University of Texas Press, 2004), its award-winning prequel, La Junta de los Rios (Mockingbird Books, 2007) and The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country (Mockingbird Books, 2007).

is the director of Trinity University Press in San Antonio. Her mission at Trinity is to build a respected academic press from scratch, and she is already succeeding, having shepherded such widely noted books as Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape and Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. She is also an accomplished poet who created a volume of poems, Bite Every Sorrow, for which she won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1997.

is the author of Water In Texas: An Introduction (University of Texas Press 2008). He is Executive Director of the River Systems Institute at Texas State University-San Marcos. One of Texas's leading conservationists, he is a former executive director of both the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Nature Conservancy, as well as the founder of the Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas.

is the Managing Director of Austin’s Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists. Serving a nationwide client base, he is also the national publicist for the Texas Book Festival. He serves as a faculty member at the annual publishing course offered by Harvard University’s Department of Continuing Education.