Co-founder and Executive Producer Richard Kollath is an artist and designer who created design features for national magazines including Better Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful, Good Housekeeping and others. A longtime contributing editor at Country Living and the author of several published books, Richard appeared frequently on network television as well as Lifetime, Discovery, and QVC. For over twenty years, Richard and Ed have produced books, magazine features, TV segments, and events from their studio and office in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

Senior Editor and Literary Ombudsman Steven Lewis is a columnist at Talking Writing, a member of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute faculty, and a longtime freelancer whose work has been published widely, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, Spirituality & Health and many others. The author of several fiction and nonfiction books, he lives, writes, and kayaks in New York’s Hudson River Valley and North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Chief Technology Officer Sara Marrone specializes in repurposing and formatting content across mediums to diverse audiences. Sara incorporates online digital platforms and graphic assets to deliver targeted, effective branding. When not working on websites, audio / video productions or social media content, she's outside taking in the wonderment of all that nature has to offer.

Editor David Masello, a native of Evanston, Illinois, has made his living as a writer and editor in New York for more than thirty-five years, first as a nonfiction book editor at Simon and Schuster, then in senior editorial positions at many magazines, including Travel & Leisure, Art and Antiques, and Town and Country. He’s currently executive editor of Milieu, a magazine about design and architecture. A widely published essayist, poet, and playwright, his work appears in the New York Times, Best American Essays, numerous literary and art magazines and small theatre companies. He’s written three books about art and architecture.

Advisory Team member Ann Levin is a writer, editor and journalist. Her articles, essays and book reviews have been published by The Associated Press, USA Today, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines. She she served as national news editor at the AP and before that was a reporter for newspapers in Texas and California. After leaving her job as a full-time journalist, Ann worked as a freelance editor for various institutions, including Columbia University and the UN Population Fund, and began to write personal essays and memoir.

Advisory Team member Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, Montclair State University, The Writers Circle and elsewhere. She has also brought her work overseas to Italy, where she helped organize and facilitate creative workshops for writers and studio artists. The author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood, Kathy's work has been featured in many literary journals as well as the New York Times, on NPR, and in the anthology Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now.

Editor Rhonda Zangwill is a longtime resident of New York City who has been teaching, mentoring, and coaching and cheering on creative writers and story-tellers since the turn of the century. Among her past and present word-wrangling partners are: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Girls Write Now, PEN’s Prison Program, The Moth, the New York Writers Coalition and the Sirovich Senior Center. A quick Google might reveal her published work. Or not. (Some places still value paper over pixels.)