Lisa Balabanlilar is a professor of history at Rice University where she has received numerous prestigious teaching awards. The focus of her research is the Timurid-Mughal Em- pire of Central…

J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. is an Episcopal priest and a Jungian analyst. He is a popular lecturer in the fields of psychology and religion and has held many distinguished lectureships. …

Gina Donovan is a conservation consultant and the former executive director of the Houston Audubon Society.  Co-founder of the East Texas Forest & Wildlife Coalition, she also served on the…

Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. His collection of essays, Twenty Poems that…

Oleg Sulyga is a violinist with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Mercury Chamber Ensemble and other music organizations in Houston. As a chamber musician, he has performed…

Timothy Hester is professor of piano and director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Mr. Hester has performed as a soloist…

Deborah Cramer is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT. Her book, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World, is the companion publication to the Sant Ocean Hall, a…

Daron Shaw is Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor & Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He serves on the editorial board for…

Aralee Dorough is principal flutist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and first appeared as soloist with the HSO in 1992, at the beginning of her second season as principal. Ms.…