Justine Wilson lives near San Francisco with her man and three dogs. She has completed several unpublished novels and is at work on another. Her story "I Would Never Hurt You" appeared in the June 2000 issue of All-Story Extra. When she isn't reading, writing, movie watching, or procrastinating, she takes flying lessons and tries to teach the dachshund how to walk on a leash.

Gail Louise Siegel directs a public interest group in Chicago. She has studied fiction with Richard Ford, Amy Hempel, Alice Mattison and Lisa Stolley, and is working on an MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her writing has appeared in FictionFix, The Salt River Review ("Sparta to Elroy" and "The Telemarketer's Point of View") and Brevity.