Matthew Neill Null is the author of the novel Honey from the Lion. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a winner of the PEN/O. Henry Award, he now coordinates the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He divides his time between Massachusetts and West Virginia.

Lydia Millet is an American novelist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.