Luis Humberto Crosthwaite lives and works in the Tijuana/San Diego metroplex. The author of five novels, his fiction has garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border. He writes a weekly column for the San Diego Union Tribune.

Francisco Delgado, the illustrator, grew up in JuArez, Chihuahua, but completed high school in El Paso. He received his MFA at Yale in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking in May 2002. Francisco is becoming known nationally for his political paintings that satirize U.S. icons blind to the meztizo and immigrant communities of Mexico. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.