Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's the author of the Dawn of Steam series of alternate-history/emergent Steampunk epistolary novels, the Young Adult sci-fi thriller Mina Cortez: From Bouquets to Bullets out of Fire and Ice YA Press, the YA contemporary Fantasy novel Foul is Fair, novellas for the Shakespear Goes Punk charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press, and numerous short stories. When not reading, researching, or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football.

Katherine Perkins just moved to Mobile, Alabama, with her husband and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She is the series editor of the Dawn of Steam series and the co-author of Foul is Fair, as well as novellas for Writerpunk Press and numerous short stories. When not reading, researching, writing, or editing, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.