Thrity Umrigar is the author of seven novels - Everybody's Son, The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time - and the memoir First Darling of the Morning.

A journalist for almost twenty years, she is the winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. An associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Umrigar lives in Cleveland.

Nidhi Chanani was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Southern California. She holds a degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

She is a 2012 White House Champion of Change for her art. She is the creator of the graphic novel Pashmina. Nidhi lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband, daughter, and two cats.