Gary James Bergera is managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation in Salt Lake City, former managing director of Signature Books, and former managing editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is co-author of Brigham Young University: A House of Faith, editor of Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, Statements of the LDS First Presidency, and companion volumes of Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845, and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846 (also co-editor) and On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess, and a contributing author in The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith, Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue, and The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism. He is also the recipient of a Best Article Award from the Mormon History Association.

Devery S. Anderson has published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (winner of the Dialogue "Best Article in History" Award for 1999), the Journal of Mormon History, and elsewhere. He is currently researching a biography of LDS apostle Willard Richards and an analysis of the racially motivated murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955. He holds a degree in history from the University of Utah and continues to take classes while also working for Verizon Wireless. He and his children, Amanda, Tyler, and Jordan, live in Salt Lake City.