Arthur Jafa is a filmmaker and cinematographer whose work includes Love Is The Message, The Message is Death (2017), Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Sharifa Walks (2015), In the Morning (2014), and Dreams Are Colder Than Death (2014), I Am Ali (2002), Rouch in Reverse (1995), and Daughters of the Dust (1991).

Jafa has exhibited his work at major institutions and galleries, including the Whitney Museum of American Art; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; the Serpentine Galleries, London; the Vinyl Factory, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Deana Lawson (born in Rochester, New York, 1979) (born in Rochester, New York, 1979) received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Her photography has been exhibited widely, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the 2018 Whitney Biennial.

Lawson is assistant professor in visual arts at Princeton University, and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. 

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind.

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists.

She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Zadie Smith lives in London and New York with her husband and two children. Swing Time is her fifth novel.