Jim Hoy, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University, writes about Flint Hills history and folklife. He is the coauthor, with Tom lsern, of Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains and Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Tom Isern, Professor of History at North Dakota State University, writes on farming, ranching, and rural life on the plains. He is coauthor of the newspaper column ""Plains Folk"" and Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains with Jim Hoy.