Jessica Landau is an assistant instructional professor in the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU) at the University of Chicago. Her work, typically about the representation of large North American mammals, cryptozoological and otherwise, has been published in American Art, Curator: the Museum Journal, as well as other journals, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogs.

Maria Lux is an artist and associate professor of art at Whitman College whose research-based practice is centered on animals and their relationship to human knowledge. Her multi-disciplinary installations have included objects ranging from a life-sized parade float of a sheep wearing a life vest, to fake raccoons attached to Roombas. Her artwork has been exhibited in gallery spaces as well as storefront windows and abandoned malls.