Cydney Alexis is associate professor of English (specialization in composition and rhetoric) at Kansas State University. Through her teaching and research, she encourages students and writers to develop positive identities as writers and to consider the material richness, affordances, and distractions of the material aspects of their writing tools and environments. She specializes in material culture studies, advanced writing strategies for cross-campus graduate students, digital writing, qualitative research methods, literacy development, and television/film studies. Her scholarship has been published in venues such as Slate, Composition Studies, and several edited collections.

Hannah J. Rule is associate professor of English in composition and rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. In both her research and teaching, Rule asks questions related to writing pedagogies, writing process histories and theories, and the embodied and material dimensions of composing. Her scholarship can be found in her 2019 monograph Situating Writing Processes (WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado), edited collections, and journals including College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and Composition Forum.