Joyce Frisby Baynes is a retired superintendent (Dunellen, New Jersey, and Englewood, New Jersey).

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Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

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Randall Beach was the rock music critic for the New Haven Register from 1978 to 1984. He later wrote about rock music for the New Haven Advocate, the Hartford Courant, and Billboard magazine. He was also a reporter and columnist for the New Haven Register. He writes the "Beachcombing" column for Connecticut magazine.

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G. K. Beale is Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois, and coordinator of Wheaton's MA in Biblical Exegesis program.

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Cindy Beall and her husband, Chris, walked through infidelity and found healing through Christ. Today, they minister at Life.Church in Oklahoma. A speaker, mentor, and author, Cindy serves on Life.Church's Leading and Loving It team, which ministers to pastors' wives and women in ministry. Visit her at cindybeall.com.

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Melba Patillo Beals earned a bachelor's degree from San Franciso State University and a graduate degree from Columbia University and worked as a reporter for NBC. Warriors Don't Cry was an ALA Notable Book for 1995 and won the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award.

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Alex Beam is a columnist for the Boston Globe and a former Moscow correspondent. He is the author of two novels, Fellow Travelers and The Americans are Coming!, as well as three works of nonfiction: American Crucifixion; Gracefully Insane; and A Great Idea at the Time, the latter two both New York Times Notable Books.

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Cris Beam is the author of several award-winning books, including To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care and Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. Her journalism has been featured in several national magazines and on public radio.

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Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her books include the acclaimed Eternal Sky series and Edda of Burdens series.

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Vanessa Bear, BA(Hons), PGCE, MBACP, lives in the Lake District, United Kingdom. She integrates psychotherapeutic counselling with yoga, mindfulness, art, and nature-connection.

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Amy Bearce is the author of the World of Aluvia series, an upper-middle grade fantasy series that bridges the gap between middle grade and young adult books. Visit her at amybearce.com.

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Amanda Beard is a seven-time Olympic medalist. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, the photographer Sacha Brown, and her son, Blaise.

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