Jaclyn Wells is Associate Professor of English and Writing Center Director at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where her research focuses on scholarly publishing in rhetoric and writing, writing center studies, composition pedagogy, and community literacy. Her work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, the Writing Center Journal, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Pedagogy, and Community Literacy Journal, among other journals and edited collections. With Allen Brizee, she is author of Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement.

Lars Söderlund is a UX Research Analyst and Writer at Baymard Institute, a Denmark-based research company, where he conducts and writes articles about large-scale usability testing of ecommerce sites. He previously published academic research at Western Oregon University, where his articles on composition and technical writing were published in College Composition and Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, informing graduate students, UX professionals, and fellow professors about the mechanics of academic publishing and non-standard models of usability.

Christine Tulley is owner of Defend, Publish & Lead, LLC and founder of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay, where she directs faculty writing support initiatives. Her research examines scholarly writing habits, academic time management, and faculty development in How Writing Faculty Write and Parenting, Professionalism and Productivity. A frequent Inside Higher Education contributor, Tulley provides guidance on academic writing productivity and career advancement.