Toby Barlow is a writer who divides his time between Brooklyn and Detroit. A graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he has been published by The Huffington Post, N+1, and Gargoyle Magazine. Sharp Teeth is his first novel.

Max Brooks is the author of the New York Times best sellers The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. The Zombie Survival Guide formed the core of the world’s civilian survival manuals during the Zombie War. Mr. Brooks subsequently spent years traveling to every part of the globe in order to conduct the face-to-face interviews that have been incorporated into World War Z.

Grace Lee most recently wrote and directed AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a feature film about the zombie community of Los Angeles that played in festivals internationally and is currently available on DVD. Prior to that, she produced, directed and wrote "The Grace Lee Project," a feature documentary that was hailed by Variety as "a funny, complex meditation on identity and cultural expectations," and "ridiculously entertaining" by New York Magazine. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film," Grace received her MFA in Film Directing from UCLA Film School. She is currently developing a new documentary about 93 year old Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs.

Matthew Klam has published or is about to publish stories on radical Judaism, Robert Downey Jr, and some short fiction. He is the author of Sam The Cat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, and the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship.

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