Erin Almeranti Editor

The author of twenty-six books, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was also a contributing editor for GQ, Harper's, Esquire, and Mother Jones. His best-known work focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, which engrosses him because it is a trip wire for issues—migration spawned by global inequality, the rise of stateless criminal cartels—that will shape the twenty-first century.

Erin Almeranti is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Tucson.

Mary Martha Miles, a college English instructor, radio disk jockey, and writer, is a longtime friend of Charles Bowden.

Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He has recently published The Farmer's Daughter and In Search of Small Gods, a book of poems. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.