Paitoon Thanya
Paitoon Thanya was born in 1956 in Pattatung, a province in Southern Thailand. He received a bachelor's degree from the Songkla campus of Srinakarinwirot University and a master's degree from the Phitsanuloke campus of the same university. He taught primary school near his hometown before moving on to his current position teaching Thai Literary Criticism at Mahasarakham University.

He began writing short stories in his early twenties as a member of the group of Southern writers called "Nakorn." Among his many publications is a collection of stories called Building Sandpiles, for which he received the prestigious SEA Write Awards in 1987. His other books include The Road ... Leads Back Home (short stories), The Dried-Up Ghost and the Rotted Coffin (a novel), Flying Out of Childhood (short stories), and October (a collection of stories chosen as runner-up for the SEA Write Award in 1996).

Tom Glass
Tom Glass was born and raised in the State of Pennsylvania, in the USA. He earned degrees in English from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Florida, and has been teaching in Thailand since 1985. His first collection of stories about Thailand is called Even a Little is Something. He currently teaches at Mahasarakham University.