Mike Davis (March 10, 1946 - Oct 25, 2022) was the author many books, including Set the Night on Fire, Old Gods, New Enigmas, City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.

Jim Miller is the author of the novels Drift (University of Oklahoma Press), Flash (AK Press), and Last Days in Ocean Beach (City Works Press), co-author of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (The New Press), Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire (The New Press), and the editor of Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (City Works Press), Sunshine/Noir II (City Works Press), and Democracy in Education; Education for Democracy: An Oral History of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931, 1969-2006 (AFT 1931). He has published columns, reviews, fiction, and poetry in the San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Free Press, The OB Rag, Words and Deeds, American Book Review, Fiction International, New Novel Review, California Quarterly, Patterson Literary Review, and a wide variety of other national and international periodicals. Miller is a professor of English and Labor Studies at San Diego City College and Vice President of Political Action and Community Outreach for the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931.

Kelly Mayhew is the co-author of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (The New Press) as well as co-author with Jim Miller of Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire (The New Press), and is co-editor with Alys Masek of Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (City Works Press), co-editor with Paula S. Rothenberg of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 9th edition (Worth Publishers), and co-editor with Jim Miller of Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (City Works Press). She is also a founding member of the San Diego Writers Collective, which created City Works Press (a progressive, all-volunteer non-profit publishing project that is housed at City College) in 2005, for which she serves as Managing Editor. Mayhew is a professor of English, Humanities, Gender Studies, and Labor Studies at San Diego City College where she also serves at a Vice President for the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931. She also serves on the Board of the Center on Policy Initiatives in San Diego.