Nick Walker is a mild-mannered psychology professor, transdisciplinary scholar, and aikido teacher. She's co-edited three previous volumes of Spoon Knife and contributed stories to four. Her nonfiction work includes the book Neuroqueer Heresies and a recent chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Creative Futures. Together with fellow writer Andrew M. Reichart and artist Mike Bennewitz, she's co-creator of the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck (weirdluck.net).

phil smith is a recovering disabled and mad perfesser. his writing--academic and creative--has been published widely, since 1977. he's had many dozens of pieces published in a buncha different journals and books, presented internationally, and has books of poetry, plays, and visual art under his belt. his book, writhing writing: moving towards a mad poetics, won the 2020 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award. his most recent book, Tinfoil Hats: Stories by mad people in an insane world, was published in 2023 by Autonomous Press. phil lives in a tiny cabin on the side of a mountain at 1800 feet, fussing and ranting with his tree and animal neighbors