Stephen Strom is both a research astronomer and fine-art photographer. His works, largely interpretations of landscapes, have been exhibited throughout the United States and is held in several permanent collections, including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; the University of Oklahoma Art Museum; the Mead Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has published six previous books of photography.

Alison Hawthorne Deming, an award-winning poet and essayist, is the Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is the author of eleven books of nonfiction and poetry, including Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. She is the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.

Rebecca A. Senf is the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and the Phoenix Art Museum.