Kerry McDonald is a pseudonym for the writing team of William Roetzheim and Randy Becker. William, a former Naval aviator, started his career as a software developer. He later turned his attention to the arts and became an award-winning playwright, poet, and published author. Randy is a writer and Emmy-nominated producer with a degree in history from Brown University. He began his career as an actor appearing in film, television, and on Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! before channeling his creative energy into writing and producing.
Tristan Davies studied comparative literature at Brown University and taught in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He has been a Howard Foundation Fellow in Fiction, a National Forest Service Artist-in-Residence, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.