Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. An expert on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American landscape photography, he has curated more than fifty exhibitions and has served as curator for the Joslyn Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Princeton University Art Museum. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the University of Delaware. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debra Gwartney is the author of several books, including I Am a Stranger Here Myself and Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gwartney coedited Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape with her husband, Barry Lopez. She has published widely in journals, including Granta, The Sun, Tin House, American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, and VQR, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in western Oregon.

Robert Macfarlane is the author of books about people, place, and nature, including Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Landmarks, and Underland: A Deep Time Journey. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have received prizes internationally, including the EM Forster Prize for Literature, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Modern European Languages and Literature, and the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. Macfarlane is a fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and lives in Cambridge, England.