Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, was published in July 2025. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing. Born in Buffalo, Park lives in Manhattan with his family. He currently teaches writing at Princeton University. In 2025, Park received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Deborah Pease Prize.

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was the author of over 80 novels and short story collections. Born in Brooklyn, Chambers studied in Paris and Munich before beginning his New York City career as an artist and writer. His fiction has been made into over twenty films and has inspired generations of writers and media creators in multiple genres. He is best known for his 1895 collection The King in Yellow, now a cult classic.