William Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, Tinseltown: Mruder, Morphine, Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and most recently The Wars of the Roosevelts. His biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He has worked as a freelance journalist and editor, and writes both fiction and nonfiction. He currently splits his time between Provincetown, Massachusetts and Palm Springs, California with his partner, Dr. Timothy Huber.

Michael Thomas Ford is the author of numerous works for both adults and young readers, including some of the earliest books about the HIV/AIDS crisis and several books about the LGBTQ community.

His most recent novel, Lily, was a Tiptree Award long list title and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Shirley Jackson Award.

He also authors a series of novellas starring some of the most popular contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race, including Sharon Needles, Manila Luzon, and Jinkx Monsoon. He has a lot of tattoos, dogs, and a beard.