William Gay is the author of the novels Provinces Of Night and The Long Home and of the short-story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. He is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee, where he is at work on his third novel.

Suzanne Kingsbury is the author of the novels The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me and The Gospel According to Gracey. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999 she became a literary nomad, living and writing in Mississippi, Georgia, Arizona, Panama, and Mexico. She currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she is at work on her third novel.