Caitlin Cashin graduated from Sweet Briar College in 2007 with a B.F.A. in Theater and Music. She spent the past year working as a Stage Management Apprentice for the Washington National Opera in Washington, DC. Caitlin’s primary interests are erasing the line between high and low culture and satisfying her need to help directionless young persons like herself (a direct result of reading The Catcher in the Rye one too many times).

Will Coggin graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance and Chinese from the College of William & Mary. Along with writing, his interests include religion, international finance, history, and politics. He has studied at Tsinghua University and worked at a Washington D.C. think tank. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

George Ding has a B.A. in Film Production and a minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California. He received a Renaissance Scholars Prize upon graduation but is caught in the nebulous void between undergrad and graduate school. Though his film making aspirations are on hold, he continues to write both fiction and non-fiction and was most recently published in the Fall 2007 issue of Paláver. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

Oscar Moralde is a writer and filmmaker originally from Norfolk, Virginia and currently based in Los Angeles. He was the recipient of the USC/Directors Guild of America Scholarship Award in 2006 and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2007. He is currently conducting research for his next film project, a documentary about the world of international film festivals.

J.R. Siegel graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science. He has lived and worked in Beijing since September 2006. His interests include politics, history, triathlons and Oreo sticks. He plans to return to America after the Olympics.

Yulin Zhuang graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Psychology. He has visited China numerous times over the past decade and currently resides in Beijing. A voracious reader, he has a strong background in multiple fields including anthropology, history, politics, economics, and science. He currently works for a corporate English training company as a professional tutor to multinationals.