Timothy O'Grady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He is the author of four works of non-fiction and four novels. His debut novel  Motherland won the David Higham Prize for the best first novel in 1989.  I Could Read the Sky, a collaboration with photographer Steve Pyke, won the Encore Award for best second novel of 1997. It was filmed and also travelled as a stage show.  I Could Read the Sky,  Children of Las Vegas and  Monaghan are published by Wilton Square.

Steve Pyke, MBE is a photographer known for his intimate and intense black and white portraits of extraordinary thinkers, creators, and artists of out time. He has spent the last 40 years seeing the world through a creative lens. Born in Leicester, UK and residing in London and NYC for many years, Steve now lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.