Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels- Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; Ugly Man; and The Marbled Swarm. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris. He is the director (with Zac Farley) of Permanent Green Light and Like Cattle Towards Glow.

Robert Storr is former senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since a second term as dean of the School of Art at Yale University, Storr continues to teach as professor in the Department of Painting/Printmaking.