Mark Foley is Assistant Professor of Double Bass and Electric Bass, and Principal Double Bass in the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
He has been a featured soloist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. He also has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Heidelberg Castle Opera Festival, the Binghamton Symphony, the Minnesota Opera and also performs extensively as a jazz artist.
Tanya Tandoc is a chef, writer, artist and owner of Tanya's Soup Kitchen in Wichita.
When she is not piloting her soup ship, she teaches cooking classes, writes recipes, consults and is a food stylist for the restaurant industry. She is also a ceramicist, cellist and bellydancer.
She lives in Wichita with her husband, son, pug dogs and giant cats.
Beth Golay has been the marketing manager at Watermark Books & Cafe since 2001. Her favorite genre is literary fiction, but she also loves creative non-fiction and reading the classics she should have attempted a long time ago.
Her greatest reading accomplishment is a toss-up: Reading four books in one weekend (documented in January 2004) or completing the 1438 pages of Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo."
In addition to "reader" you can add "artist" and "runner" to her interest list. She's currently trying to run a marathon in every state. She has a long way to go.
Lindsey Herkommer is from Dallas, Texas. She earned her B.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, and M.A. in Art History from Southern Methodist University in May 2012.
Over the course of these two degrees, she focused her research on Modern and contemporary art from the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.
Currently, she teaches art foundations and art history at Wichita State University.