Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., was born at Naval Air Station Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Houma, Louisiana. He is a founding member of Writing Louisiana, a committee of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and is a member of the Comité de Sélection du Poète Lauréat(e) de la Louisiane. Since 2019 he has served on the Board of Directors of the LEH, and he is a member of the Advisory Council for the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program. He is author of Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne and Livestock Brands and Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History: 1822-1946 Pioneer Families: Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, both distributed by University Press of Mississippi. He and his wife Cindy reside on Bayou Black outside Houma. Claire Domangue Joller has received awards from the National Catholic Press Association and the Louisiana Press Association for her newspaper and magazine columns. Carl A. Brasseaux, former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and a Louisiana Writer of the Year, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is author or coauthor of more than forty books including Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou; Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain; Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877; and Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Donald W. Davis has been involved for more than fifty years in coastal-related research on the wide array of renewable and nonrenewable resources vital to the use of the wetlands. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Shore & Beach, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Louisiana Conservationists, and Louisiana History. He is coauthor of Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou and Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain, both published by University Press of Mississippi, and author of Washed Away? The Invisible Peoples of Louisiana's Wetlands.