Frye Gaillard (Author)
FRYE GAILLARD is a former writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of thirty books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s (Georgia), an NPR best book of 2018. He lives in Mobile, Alabama.

Kathryn Scheldt (Author)
KATHRYN SCHELDT, author, singer, and award-winning songwriter, is a resident of Fairhope and author of two guitar songbooks for Mel Bay Publications. Kathryn has played listening rooms all over the South, and has released eight solo CDs. Her single, “Almost Cheatin’,” from her One Good Reason CD reached number eight on the country chart, and her recording of “The Last Shrimp Boat” anchored the soundtrack for the Emmy-winning documentary, In the Path of the Storms.