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Bert Chen is an associate of Georgia Urology, P.A. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a member of the American Urological Association. A native of Atlanta, Chen obtained his undergraduate degree from Yale University. He earned his medical degree at Medical College of Georgia, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical school honor society. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at the University of Michigan. He has published and presented research in the field of urologic oncology, including prostate cancer and surgical techniques. He has experience in laparoscopy and minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of benign and malignant urologic disease. Hospital affiliations include Dekalb Medical Center, Rockdale Medical Center, and Newton Medical Center. His areas of interests in addition to general urology include stone disease, female urology, and urologic oncology.

Harriet McDougal was married to fantasy writer Robert Jordan. She is a a former Ace Books editorial director and a current editor with Tor Books.

Robert Olen Butler has published 11 novels, including *A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain*, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Since 1995, he has written feature-length screenplays and two teleplays. He is the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University. He lives in Capps, Florida, which has a population of one.

Robert M. Craig is a professor in the Architecture Program at Georgia Tech. He has taught there since 1973. He specializes in 19th and early 20th century architecture and offers courses surveying American, modern, and medieval architecture, as well as seminars on Frank Lloyd Wright, on Atlanta architecture, and on the architecture of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He has presented over 100 scholarly papers at academic conferences and has lectured in Australia, China, Europe, and the US. His photographs of buildings have illustrated articles and books, which he and others have authored. He completed his PhD in the history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University in 1973.

April Speed gained a fellowship at Anderson Cancer Center. She graduated with a medical degree and completed her residency at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Brandon Sanderson began writing in earnest, taking a job as the night desk clerk at a hotel because they allowed him to write while at work. During this era, he went to school full-time during the day, worked nights to pay for his schooling, and wrote as much as he could. He says it made for a rather dismal social life, but he finished seven novels during his undergraduate years. He submitted many manuscripts for publication and accumulated quite a pile of rejection letters. In spite of this, he continued to be a dedicated writer. In 2004 after graduating with his master's degree in creative writing from Brigham Young University, he was asked to teach the class he had taken as an undergraduate student from Dave Farland. In spite of his busy schedule, he continues to teach this one section of creative writing focused on science fiction and fantasy, because he enjoys helping aspiring writers. In December of 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet Rigney to complete *A Memory of Light*, book twelve in Robert Jordan's *Wheel of Time* series. Brandon is now hard at work on this epic project.

Professor Benjamin Carp focuses particularly on urban politics, society, and culture in eighteenth-century America. His books include _Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America_, which won the triennial Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize in 2013; and _Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution_. He has also written articles for Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. His desire to pursue a Ph.D. in history began with an article by Alfred F. Young on George Robert Twelves Hewes. Since then, he has written scholarly articles about firefighters and the American Revolution, nationalism during the Revolution and the Civil War, leadership in the work of Edmund S. Morgan, and Quaker merchants in Charleston. He received the Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2005), the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2003) and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (1998). Prior to joining Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, he taught at the University of Edinburgh and Tufts University.

Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection.

Julia Wallace was named editor of the *Atlanta Journal-Constitution* in July 2002, after serving as managing editor for 18 months. During her tenure, ajc.com has grown into one of the most popular newspaper websites in the country, logging more than a billion page views annually since 2007. She has improved the content of the newspaper, focusing on unique local content, including watchdog reporting and great storytelling. She was named editor of the year by *Editor & Publisher * magazine in 2004. The paper was awarded Pulitzer prizes in 2006 and 2007. She been inducted into the Medill School Of Journalism Hall of Achievement and received the Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University in 2006.

Scott Barbour is an experienced practitioner of orthopedic surgery with fellowship training in sports medicine. He has specialized expertise in arthroscopy of all joints including the hip. Special interests include cartilage-resurfacing procedures and meniscal transplants. He has significant experience with primary hip, knee, and shoulder reconstruction. He is currently one of the few US doctors performing biologic joint surgery for those who suffer from joint pain, as well as arthroscopic hip surgery. He received his medical degree from Saint Louis University School Of Medicine, St. Louis, MO., in 1996.

Stephen DeStefano's research interests are broadly defined by wildlife biology and terrestrial ecology, with the underlying focus and common themes of population ecology (demography, population dynamics, survival analysis), wildlife-habitat relationships (response to vegetation structure, use-availability analyses, correlation to population demography), the influence of anthropogenic factors (urban-suburban development, disturbance) on wildlife populations, and the science and management of game populations and "overabundant" wildlife. These topics have numerous implications for ecological research and wildlife management, especially as they relate to conservation biology, recovery of endangered species, human-wildlife interactions, and the impact of human activities on wildlife populations.

Behnaz Rouhani studied mathematics education at the University of Georgia. She is a professor of mathematics for the online service of Georgia Perimeter College.