Deirdre C. Byrne is Director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), a practising poet, and Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa. She is Editor of the academic journal Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. Her main research interest is in women's poetry and speculative fiction. Her work on feminist readings of speculative fiction has been published in Extrapolation; Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive to Gender and Love; Fluid Gender, Fluid Love; and Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature.

Garth J. Mason is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Arabic at the University of South Africa and a practising poet. He has a long-term interest in people's lived experiences of spirituality, and his research on this has been published in Contemporary Buddhism, Religious Education, and The Journal for the Study of Religion in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to Oxford annotated Bibliographies in Buddhism series.