Sharon Mesmer's poetry collections include Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, Annoying Diabetic Bitch, and The Virgin Formica. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the Paris Review. She teaches at NYU and the New School.

David Borchart is a cartoonist for the New Yorker, and his cartoons have appeared in Esquire and Time magazine.