Rebecca Connor is associate professor of English at the City University of New York Hunter College, where she teaches 18th-century literature, art and material culture, the Gothic, and film studies. Her co-written film The Noel Diary will be released by Netflix in November, and her romantic comedy Paris At Last is in active development with Wild Bunch Productions. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America.

Paul Park is Senior Lecturer in English, Emeritus, at Williams College. His novels, short stories, and poems have been finalists for the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the James R. Tiptree Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, the Locus Readers’ Award, the Rhysling Poetry Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. He is currently working in collaboration with Arthur Jafa on a screenplay based on his novel A Princess of Roumania.