Author Cressida Connolly has written novels, short stories, literary criticism, and non-fiction. Her 2018 novel, After the Party, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her debut collection of short stories, The Happiest Days, won the PEN/MacMillan Silver Pen Award. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. The daughter of the author Cyril Connolly, she lives on a confetti petal farm in Worcestershire.

Writer Nathan Kernan lives in New York. He edited the Diary of James Schuyler, which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1997, and is writing a biography of Schuyler to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His collaboration with Joan Mitchell, Poems, was published by Tyler Graphics in 1992. He is the President of the Board of The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.

David Nolan founded David Nolan Gallery in 1987, specializing in modern and contemporary works by an array of international artists working in a variety of media. The gallery’s original mission was to exhibit contemporary works on paper along with painting and sculptures by American and European artists, and to produce monographs together with tightly curated historical exhibitions. The first solo show at the gallery, an exhibition of early drawings by Sigmar Polke, was followed by presentations of now-canonical German artists, including Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel, and Albert Oehlen. In Spring 2020, the gallery announced its newest location on the Upper East Side inaugurated with an exhibition of works on paper by Jorinde Voigt.

John Yau has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He is the Publisher of Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend. Recent books by Yau include Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal, published by Rizzoli in 2022, and the book of poems Genghis Chan on Drums published by Omnidawn in 2021. He is the 2017 recipient of the Jackson Prize in Poetry and a 2021 recipient of a Rabkin Prize for art criticism. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and lives in New York.

New York-based artist and writer David Rhodes is originally from Manchester, UK. His most recent solo exhibition Aletheia was at High Noon Gallery, New York in January 2024. His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Huntington Museum, Los Angeles, among others. He has published catalog essays for Michael Werner Gallery, New York, Karma Gallery, New York and Museum Ludwig, Köln. He is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail.