MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities, and-with Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller-Under the Perfect Sun. He lives in San Diego.

Kelly Mayhew is a professor in the English department and honors program at San Diego City College. She is a co-author, with Mike Davis and Jim Miller, of Under the Perfect Sun (The New Press) and, with Jim Miller, of Better to Reign in Hell (The New Press). She and Alys Masek co-edited Mamas and Papas. She lives in San Diego.

Jim Miller is a professor of English at San Diego City College.