Mark Bryant is an editor, publisher, and journalist who has worked with both emerging writers and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Booker Prize. He has served as the editor of Outside, which he led to five National Magazine Awards, including a record three consecutive prizes for General Excellence; the editor of Men’s Journal and Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine; executive editor at HarperCollins; editor at large at Scribd, the world’s largest premium digital reading service; and co-founder and editor in chief of Byliner, a pioneer in longform online publishing. He is now head of author relations for Created by Humans, and serves as executive director of Assignment, an investigative and longform journalism foundation co-founded by Jon Krakauer and Linda Moore; and co-founder and chief curator of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. Mark has published a wide range of authors including Barry Lopez, Margaret Atwood, David Foster Wallace, Roxane Gay, Michael Lewis, Ann Patchett, David Quammen, Colum McCann, Susan Orlean, Amy Tan, James Salter, Alexandra Fuller, Richard Powers, and Annie Proulx.

Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A specialist in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century American art, notably landscape painting, her most recent exhibition, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture (2020), considered how deeply entwined the heralded naturalist’s ideas were with America’s emerging identity, grounded in an appreciation of nature. Previously, Harvey organized the critically acclaimed The Civil War and American Art (2012). She served as chief curator from 2003 to 2012, and spearheaded the museum’s reinstallation in 2006 following its renovation. From 1992 to 2002, Harvey was curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she organized several exhibitions, including The Voyage of The Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece (2002), Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place (2001), and The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880 (1998). She began her career at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as an Assistant Curator (1989-91). Harvey holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia (1983), and earned both a master’s degree (1985) and doctorate in the history of art (1998) from Yale University.

Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. He was chief curator and curator of American Western art at Joslyn Art Museum from 2011 to 2020; prior to this, he was a curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. An expert on nineteenth and twentieth century American landscape photography, he has curated over fifty monographic and group exhibitions of photography, painting, works on paper, and new media. In 2010, he organized Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and has also published essays on Thomas Joshua Cooper; Steve Fitch; John Gossage; Andrew Moore; William Sutton; and the New Topographics. Most recently, he published From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez. Jurovics holds a B.A. in art history and English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware.

Annelies Mondi is the former deputy director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, a position she held from 2004-22. As deputy director, Mondi oversaw the renovation of the museum’s existing building and the construction of its 30,000-square-foot addition that opened in 2011. She co-curated and co-authored the major retrospective exhibition and publication Crafting History: Textiles, Metals, and Ceramics at the University of Georgia in 2018 and organized numerous other exhibitions. Over the course of her 34 years in the museum field, Mondi has been a consultant for several private collectors and worked on special projects for the Albany (Georgia) Museum of Art, Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Wesleyan College, and Princeton University Art Museum. From 2002-04 Mondi served as the chair of the Southeastern Registrars Association, and, in 2009, she was recognized as Museum Professional of the Year by the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries.