Heather Havrilesky is the author of What if This Were Enough?, How to Be a Person in the World, and Disaster Preparedness. She writes the "Ask Polly" column for New York magazine as well as the newsletter "Ask Molly," and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered, among others. She was Salon's TV critic for seven years. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their children.

Annie Zaleski is an award-winning journalist and author based in Cleveland, Ohio.

She has contributed to publications such as Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Billboard, and The Los Angeles Times, amongst others. Her first book, Duran Duran’s Rio, was published by Bloomsbury Academic as part of the 33 1/3 series, in 2021. Lady Gaga: Applause is her first book for Palazzo Editions.