SARAH GERARD is the author of the memoir Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable. Her essay collection Sunshine State was a New York Times Critics' and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her novel Binary Star was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize, and her novel True Love is "[A] darkly comic dissection of desire" (Entertainment Weekly). Her short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and several anthologies. She was a recipient of a 2021 Lambda Literary Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. She's a private investigator in Denver.

CATHERINE LACEY is the author of five books: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman fellowship, an O. Henry, the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and an award from Lambda for Lesbian Fiction. Her debut work of nonfiction, The Möbius Book, is forthcoming from FSG. A second short story collection, My Stalkers, will follow. She lives in México with her husband, Daniel Saldaña París.