Carole laFavor (1948–2011) was a Two-Spirit Ojibwa¿novelist and activist who lived and worked in Minnesota. She was a member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in the 1990s and worked with organizations that supported Native American people with HIV/AIDS. She is also author of Along the Journey River: A Mystery (Minnesota, 2017).

Lisa Tatonetti is associate professor of English at Kansas State University. She is author of The Queerness of Native American Literature (Minnesota, 2014).¿

Theresa Lafavor is the daughter of Carole laFavor and is an assistant professor at Pacific University in Oregon.