Joey Shaw is associate professor of biological and environmental sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Edward W. Chester is professor emeritus of biology at Austin Peay State University, where he taught botany and curated the herbarium for more than forty-five years.

B. Eugene Wofford is research associate professor emeritus and director emeritus of the University of Tennessee Herbarium. He is coauthor with Dr. Chester of Guide to the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Tennessee.