Sloan Wainwright
WEOS: 4/25/13, WSKG: 4/28/13
Songer /songwriter
Wainwright comes from the celebrated musical family. Her brother is folk-music luminary Loudon Wainwright, sister-in-law Kate McGarrigle, nephew Rufus Wainwright, nieces Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche. Defying standard categorization, Wainwright consistently demonstrates her easy command of a variety of American musical styles - pop, folk, jazz and blues - held together by the melodious tone of her rich contralto. She has released over half a dozen original CD's. Her most recent is the moving and emotional original collection called Upside Down & Under My Heart.

Tim Gallagher
WEOS: 4/18/13, WSKG: 4/21/13
Writer / wildlife photographer / editor
Gallagher has been the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine since 1990. As one of the first three searchers to report seeing and identifying the species, he played an instrumental role in the 2004/2005 Arkansas reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. His book about the experience, The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was published in May 2005. His book, Falcon Fever, about his lifelong fascination with birds of prey, was released in May 2008. His most recent, published in April 2013, is Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre.

Edward Hower
WEOS: 4/11/13, WSKG: 4/14/13
Writer and novelist
Hower has published 8 novels and 2 collections of short stories. His novels include The New Life Hotel, A Garden of Dreams, and The Storms of May. His most recent work of fiction is a fascinating and mysterious novel called Slick. Hower's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly and American Scholar. For the last six years he has been teaching at Auburn Prison for the Cornell Prison Education Program.

Juliana Gray
WEOS: 4/04/13, WSKG: 4/07/13
Poet and Associate Professor of English at Alfred University
Gray is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where she received her Ph.D in English and creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including The Hopkins Review, New South, Southern Humanities Review and Poetry East. She is the author of 2 collections of poetry. Her first, The Man Under My Skin, was published in 2005. Her most recent is titled RolePlay, and was published in 2012.