Mimi Reisel Gladstein is the author of four books and coeditor of one. Her scholarly articles, covering subjects as diverse as the Harry Potter series and bilingual wordplay in Hemingway and Steinback, have been translated and published in both Mexico and Japan. Gladstein has been recognized internationally with the John J. and Angeline R. Pruis Award for teaching Steinback and the Burckhardt Award for Steinback scholarship.

Daniel Chacón is a professor of creative writing at the University of Texas, El Paso. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon. He is the author of several books, including The Cholo Tree and Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops, which won the 2014 PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence.