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2024
- Travis Tougaw
- Z.S. Diamanti
- T.O. Paine
- Danaeka Scrimshaw
- CK Van Dam
- Sarah Kozloff
- Caitee Cooper
- Sunshine Knight
- Bethany Turner
- Laurel McHargue
- Johnny Worthen
- Puja Guha
- Laura Resau
- Cam Torrens
- Serra Wildheart
- Dawn L Annis
- Pamela Chiaro
2023
- Paulla Hunter
- Megan E. Freeman
- S.M. Dapelo
- Donnell Ann Bell
- Joy Jarrett
- Charis Jones
- Steve Stratton
- Cynthia Swanson
- Natasha Gonzalez
- Karen Albright Lin
- Kathleen Donnelly
- Ron Turker
- Laurie Marr Wasmund
- Rachel Lynn Seidel Hoff
2022
- Tasha Christensen
- Geoff Jones
- J. Warren Weaver
- Terri Benson
2021
- Paul Schumacher
- Zoey Indiana
- Amy Drayer
- L.V. Ditchkus
- Fred G. Baker
2020
- Jason Henry Evans
- William R. Crosgrove
- Emersyn Kane, Payton Rome, Connie Connolly
- Judy Kundert
- Stephanie Kane
- Natli VanDerWerken
- Laurie Holbrook
2019
- Shannon Baker
- Amy Rivers
- Dan Grant
- O.E. Tearmann
- Rochelle Padzensky
- Dacia M. Arnold
- Stephen P. Bye
- Veronica Calisto
- M.W. Kelly
- Stella J. Raasch
- Karla M. Jay
- Luanne G. Smith
- Randi Samuelson-Brown
- Dacia Arnold
- Melissa Payne
- Mary Mas Johnson
- Ryanne Buck
2018
- Selena Laurence
- Lori Johnson
- Kate Jonuska
- Candice Bundy
- Catherine Spader
- Gwen Clayton
- Victoria Pinder
- Lisa Fender
- Janet Fogg
- Denitta Ward
- Jennifer Rose
- Tess Thompson
- Dave Kelley
- K.B. Jensen
- Jean Jacobsen
- Brenda M. Hardwick
- Cindy Skaggs
- Merissa Racine
- Helen Starbuck
- Erik Nickerson
- Kyle Matthew Aarons
- Doug Adcock
- K.M. Ecke
- Diana Holguin-Balogh
- Cynthia Kuhn
- Victoria Pinder
- Sue Hinkin
- Jayme Mansfield
- Diane Byington
- Cindy Skaggs
- Mike Torreano
- Elisabeth A. Colter
2017
- Terry Odell
- F.P. Dorchack
- Scott Beckman
- James Hunter
- Dyan Chick
- Beverly Coots
- Heather Slade
- Rhonda Blackhurst
- Charlene Tess
- K. Ferrin
- Andrew Gonzales
- Paul B. Kohler
- Rohret Buchner
- Michael Mills
- Linea Tanner
- Herb Padzensky
- Allan C.R. Cornelius
- Kathy McIntosh
- Via Mari
- T.H. Leatherman
- Ed Mahoney
- Liv Hadden
2016
- Ashlee Cowles
- Jim Cronin
- Danica Favorite
- Emily France
- Marc Graham
- Marie Hall
- Jennifer Kincheloe
- Laurence MacNaughton
- Jamie Raintree
- Judy Rose
- Aimee Runyan
- Erik Storey
- Grayson Towler
- Julie VanLaanen
- Denise Vega
- K.B. Wagers
- Kevin Wolf
- Laura VanArendonk Baugh
- Marla Bell
- Gary Bregar
- Jodi Burnett
- Don Calloway
- Julie Cameron
- Merit Clark
- Victoria DeGette
- J.D. Dudycha
- Sheri Duff
- Mariana Gabrielle
- A.G. Henley
- Terry Kroenung
- AJ Lauer
- Mariko Layton
- Nathan Lowell
- Glenn Rogers
- Gordon Savage
- Wendy Terrien
- Joshua Viola
- Peggy Waide
- Jennifer Waller
2015
- Maura Weiler
- Margaret Mizushima
- Rae James
- Catherine Dilts
- Stephen Benjamin
- Emily France
- Thom Nicholson
- Katherine Lampe
- Corinne O’Flynn
- Shawn McGuire
- Yvonne Montgomery
- Muffie Humphry
- Laura V. Keegan
- P.J. Hermanson
- Kendrick E. Knight
- Stephen C. Merlino
- D.L. Orton
- Liz Roadifer
- Bernadette Marie
- Catherine Winters
- Monica Poole
- LM Manifold
- C.R.Lemons
- Cheryl Carpinello
- John Turley
- Laura Reeve
- Lisa Stormes Hawker
- Sue Duff
2014
- Piper Bayard
- Bonnie Biafore
- Peg Brantley
- Bill Cherf
- Ruth Colter
- Sean Curley
- Kristsi Helvig
- Cathy Horvath
- Sue Hughey
- Carolyn Jones
- Christie Keele
- Page Lambert
- Michael Madigan
- Lisa O’Kane
- Colleen Oakes
- Bonnie Ramthun
- Stephanie Reisner
- Theresa Rizzo
- Lisa Brown Roberts
- Paula Scanland
- Bruce Schindler
- Karen Schutte
- Miche Sipes
- Stephanie Smith
- Kevin Paul Tracy
- Stephanie Tempast
- Lowell Volk
- Daniel Willis
2013
- Chuck Greaves
- Gwen Florio
- David Jessup
- Kerry Schafer
- Rebecca Taylor
- Heather Webb
2012
- Susan Spann
- Linda Joffe Hull
- Liesa Malik
- Greg Hill
2011
- Kevin Diviness
- Alexis Brooks de Vita
- Courtney Shafer
- Julie Kazimer
- Marne Kirk
- Betsy Dornbusch
- Susan Claridge
- Aaron Michael Ritchey