Dr. William Thiele serves as founding director of the School for Contemplative Living, (www.thescl.net), adjunct professor at Loyola University, Compassion Cultivation Training certified...

Lauren Tilton is Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond and member of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab.

Hannah Timmons was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up on one of the main thoroughfares for Mardi Gras and that spirit dances throughout her to this day.

Tone Skårdal Tobiassson, journalist and author, went from managing editor of fashion magazines to a founder of NICE (Nordic Initiative Clean & Ethical) Fashion, originally a platform for...

Marianna Torgovnick has been called “audacious and wide-ranging” (James E. Young), “brave, enlightening, [and] compassionate” (Joyce Carol Oates), a writer with “verve, lucidity,...

Ahmed Khaled Towfik, born in Tanta, Egypt, in 1962, is a prolific novelist and poet.

Karyn Traut was born in Florida in 1944 and lived in Phoenix, Arizona till 1960 when she moved to Malibu, California. She met her husband Tom at UC Berkeley, and they had two sons while...

Thomas Traut has been an enthusiastic enzymologist for over 50 years. He has written a textbook, Allosteric Regulatory Enzymes, and published many research papers.

Jonathan Traviesa is a photographer and artist living in New Orleans since the late 1990s, and has been teaching photography at Tulane University for the last several years.

Natasha Trethewey is the author of Beyond Katrina and four poetry collections, one forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012.

Eve Troeh is a staff reporter for Marketplace, the public radio show about business and economics. As part of the Sustainability Desk she’s covered issues as big as international climate...

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1968, and raised in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, Monique Truong is a novelist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Keaghan Turner, Ph.D. teaches writing and literature at Coastal Carolina University. She counts the ways two boys can frustrate her best attempts at the Perfect Motherhood at Useless...

Leo Twiggs was born in St. Stephen, South Carolina. He received his BA from Claflin University, later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received his MA from New York University...

John Twomey earned a BS from the University of Dayton and a MS from Boston University. He served for two years on active duty in the Army and subsequently spent most of his career in High...

Barbara Tyroler has been photographing bodies in water with infrared black and white film since the early 80s. She continued these studies using underwater housings for her cameras, holding...

Monique Verdin is an interdisciplinary storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana.

Jaycie Vos is an archivist and the Coordinator of Collections for the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she works with faculty,...

Judith Walcutt lives about as far away from the American South as you can live in the contiguous United States—on an island north of Seattle.

Beatriz Wallace has worked at TIME magazine in New York, helped implement digital storytelling for children exposed to family violence in rural Missouri, and taught multimedia journalism at...

Alabama native Daniel Wallace is the author of five novels, including Big Fish, his first, published in 1998 and made into a hit movie by Tim Burton. His other novels are Ray in Reverse,...

Coleman Warner, Mississippi native and longtime journalist, mixes writing, editing and research as a special assistant to the president of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. He has...

Dewey Warner grew up in Meridian, Mississippi, lived in San Diego and Chicago, and now in Key West.

Linwood Watson, MD, is a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, a board certified family medicine physician, and an amateur orchardist of native species.

Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist/curator and professor emeritus of Art at UC Santa Cruz.

Joanna Welborn was born and raised in the foothills of Western North Carolina.

Christopher Porché West is an award‐winning photographer and artist who has been documenting the people and culture of News Orleans for thirty years.

Meredith Westgate is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MFA in Fiction from The New School.

On my first trip to Japan, in 1963, just after graduation from Harvard College, I was immersed in the sensory experiences of Japanese food – from “me de taberu” to the sounds of...

Psychotherapist and university professor Dr. Clay Whitehead lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his family. In his spare time he enjoys sailing, flying, diving, history, mythology and...