Linda M. Grasso is a professor of English at York College and of liberal studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the author of The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860.

Mike Tapia is an associate professor of criminology at New Mexico State University. He is the author of The Barrio Gangs of San Antonio, 1915-2015.