Dale Bailey is the author of several novels and short story collections, including This Island Earth and In the Night Wood. His short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, such as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Best Horror of the Year. Bailey's story "Death and Suffrage" was adapted for Showtime's Masters of Horror series. He has won the Shirley Jackson and the International Horror Guild Awards, as well as being named a finalist for the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards.
Jack Slay Jr. teaches English and servant leadership at LaGrange College in Georgia. In addition to the novel Sleeping Policemen, written with Dale Bailey, he has written short fiction for Realms of Fantasy, Cemetery Dance, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Talebones, and other publications. He is married to Lori; together they have three sons: Kirk, Justin, and Reed.