Sonya Huber is an award-winning author of eight books. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Fourth Genre, and more. She received the 2012 Creative Nonfiction Award from Terrain; her essays were named notable in Best American Essays 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2019.

Martha Bayne is the editor of three collections of writing about Chicago and the Midwest, most recently The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook, which was named one of the best 21st-century books about the city by Chicago magazine. A journalist and essayist, her work has appeared in local and national outlets including the Chicago Reader, The Chicago Reporter, The Baffler, Eater, Belt Magazine, The World, South Side Weekly, and The Rumpus, where she was for two years the Sunday essays coeditor. She currently works as the regional trade editor at the University of Illinois Press and writes a Substack newsletter called Range of Motion.