Gary Phillips edited the Anthony-winning anthology, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, and written comics such as The Return of Xal- Kor, the Human Cat -- a fandom favorite of the 1970s. The Washington Post named his novel One-Shot Harry one of the best mysteries of 2022. He was a staff writer and co-producer on FX’s Snowfall about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central.
Richard J. Brewer has worked as a bookseller, a writer, an actor and a narrator/director of audiobooks. He is the co-editor of the critically acclaimed anthologies, Meeting Across the River (Bloomsbury USA), Occupied Earth (Polis Books) and Culprits (Polis Books). Culprits is now an eight-part limited television series for Disney+UK and Hulu in the U.S. His short story Last to Die appeared in the Bruce Springsteen inspired anthology Trouble in the Heartland (Gutter Books).
