Randall Wilhelm is an assistant professor of English at Anderson University. He is the editor of The Ron Rash Reader, also published by the University of South Carolina Press, and co-editor of Conversations with Robert Morgan.

Zackary Vernon is an assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University. His research has been published in a range of scholarly books and journals, and he is the editor of Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies.