Jesús Rosales is an associate professor of Chicano literature at Arizona State University, the author of Marco Solís: El hombre de arena, and the co-editor of Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature.

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University, the author of Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture, and the co-editor of Querencia.