Gifford, Barry: - Barry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels (one of which was adapted into David Lynch's 1990 Palme d'Or-winning film Wild at Heart). Gifford has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, The American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.

Gorman, Edward: -

Edward Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club, which is now a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann. He has written under many pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection, Cages, was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. His collection, The Dark Fantastic, was nominated for the same award in 2001. He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero, Black Lizard, Cemetery Dance, the anthology Tales of Zorro, and many more.

Mossman, Dow: - Dow Mossman is the author of The Stones of Summer, originally published in 1972 by Bobbs-Merrill, and Popular Library a year later. Following publication of the novel, Mossman was mentally exhausted and spent several months in an Iowa sanitarium. The novel soon went out of print, but in 2002, Mossman became the subject of the documentary film Stone Reader by Mark Moskowitz, which chronicled the director's attempt to resuscitate the acclaimed book and speak to its seemingly vanished author. After the film's release, The Stones of Summer was reissued by Barnes & Noble, and Mossman is now semi-retired living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.