Author Kathy Eckles Hooker grew up in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. She was introduced to Native American cultures as a child watching Native dancers perform at the Department of the Interior. She and her husband moved to the Navajo Reservation in the 1970s, where she taught English to Diné students at Dilcon Boarding School. While there, Hooker studied Navajo traditional lifeways and from her research wrote "Time Among the Navajo: Traditional Lifeways on the Reservation." She later taught English at Flagstaff Unified School District for 33 years, where again she worked with Diné students. During nearly 44 years in Los Angeles, professional photographer David Young-Wolff became one of America's top producers of stock photography. He later moved from stock photography to a niche shooting yoga, fashion photography, and creative portraiture, capturing evocative images for his clients while also working on personal photography projects. He now lives and photographs in Bend, Oregon.