Dan Kirby is the coathor of New Directions in Teaching Memoir (2007), Inside Out, Third Edition (2004), and Mind Matters (1991). A former high school English teacher, Dan recently retired after more than thirty years of university teaching at the University of Georgia, the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado at Denver.
Dawn Latta Kirby is the coauthor of New Directions in Teaching Memoir (2007) and Inside Out, Third Edition (2004). A former high school English teacher as well as a department chair, she taught college classes in English methods, young adult literature, qualitative research methods, and writing in Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Arizona. She is currently Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University, where she directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project.