Earl G. Ingersoll is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY College at Brockport. He has written, edited, and coedited many books, including Conversations with May Sarton, Conversations with Rita Dove, Conversations with Anthony Burgess, Conversations with Colum McCann, and Conversations with John Banville, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

John Cusatis teaches at the Charleston County School of the Arts. He is author of Understanding Colum McCann, the first critical study of the Irish-born National Book Award winner, and the editor of Post War Literature, 1945-1970 as well as three volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.