Kwame Dawes is an actor, critic, editor, musician, playwright, and poet. Born in Ghana, he spent most of his childhood in Jamaica. It is that culture that influences much of his work. He is the author of more than one dozen poetry collections, including three 2006 titles: Brimming, Impossible Flying, and Wisteria. Dawes was the editor of Hub City's Twenty (2005), a creative collection featuring South Carolina Poetry Fellows.

Cathy Smith Bowers is a poet and native of South Carolina. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and Kenyon Review. In 2005, Bowers wrote the introduction to Hub City's Hidden Voices, an anthology of creative writing by clients and friends of Piedmont Care Inc., the nonprofit agency in Spartanburg that serves HIV-positive people and their families. 

Spartanburg native and fiction writer Sheila Ingle is the author of the recent Hub City title Courageous Kate: A Daughter of the American Revolution. A fictional biography for young adults, this story combines history and folklore to create a compelling, memorable story of a heroine and young mother who served as a scout and a spy, and is credited with helping General Daniel Morgan defeat the British at the Battle of Cowpens.