Sheila Finch is best known for her sequence of stories about the Guild of Xenolinguists. She won a Nebula novella award for "Reading the Bones" in 1998. Her most recent book is Villa Far From Rome.

David D. Levine is the author of Andre Norton Award winning novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016), sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus (Tor 2017) and Arabella the Traitor of Mars (Tor 2018), and over fifty SF and fantasy stories.