THE AUTHORS

Camille Sweeney has known she wanted to be a writer since she was 5 years old. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and other publications. As a project editor for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, she worked on numerous special issues and features and won a New York Times Publisher’s Award. She is a MacDowell Arts Colony Fellow and in her spare time, writes fiction.

Josh Gosfield has worked on farms and as a carpenter and cartoonist. He was the Art Director of New York Magazine. He has won numerous awards for illustrations and photographs he has produced for major magazines, record companies and book publishers. He has had several one-man shows of paintings in New York and Los Angeles and has art directed music videos and written and directed short films. For his latest fine art project, GIGI, The Black Flower, Gosfield was both author and creator of a critically acclaimed, multi-media archive of a fictional celebrity.