In the summer of 2005, teachers from the greater Detroit area came together to share their knowledge, experience, and creative expression in Language Arts, with an emphasis on writing, as Fellows of the Meadow Brook Writing Project. In the Company of Writers 2005 is the anthology resulting from that collaboration. All participants, from elementary though college, returned to their classrooms in the fall, inspired and ready to pass on that inspiration to their students.

The Meadow Brook Writing Project Fellows are teachers of writing (K-16) from the Detroit metropolitan area. Now published authors and MBWP teacher consultants, in the summer of 2005, they took the risk of becoming students again in order to become better teachers.