Joshua Davis (he/him) is the New York Times best-selling author of Spare Parts, The Underdog, and Entrenched. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in feature writing and produced the Sundance Audience Award–winning film Radical. He is the co-founder of Epic Magazine.

Kal Kini-Davis (he/him) is a sailor and writer. He recently graduated high school in San Francisco and is now studying wooden boatbuilding in the Pacific Northwest. He plans to cross the Pacific in a boat built by his own hands and believes that boats have souls, just as people do.