Percival Leonard Everett II is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor.

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist.

Gregory Scott is a city police detective, digital forensics examiner, and software developer who also works as an author. He is known for the Blake Brier series, which began in 2020 with *Unmasked* and currently spans eight novels, with *Quarry* being the most recently released. His background in the entertainment industry has given him a lasting appreciation for the arts.

Donna Balon is a former certified public accountant and tax attorney based in Las Vegas who turned to fiction writing. She is the author of *Sam Time* (Desert Day Press LLC, September 2023), a historical fiction novel about a history professor who befriends Ulysses S. Grant. Inspired during a trip to Colorado's old mining towns, she immersed herself in researching Grant and Victorian customs to bring the story to life.