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Billy Bob Hill, Educator, Publisher & Editor (Browder Springs Publishing Company)

Dr. Njoki McElroy, Writer; Storyteller; Adjunct Professor, SMU / Northwestern University

Jack Myers, 2003-04 Poet Laureate of Texas; Professor of English, SMU

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