Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novel The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction-and which includes photographs by Velibor Božovic; a book of essays, The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography; a novel, The Making of Zombie Wars; and books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. Hemon lives in Chicago.

Velibor Božovic was in his twenties when his hometown of Sarajevo became a war zone and was under siege for more than a thousand days. In 1999, he moved to Montreal where he worked for eight years as an engineer in the aerospace industry before abandoning that career to devote himself to art. Božovic holds a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts (Photography) (2015) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography (2011) from Concordia University. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the2015 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowships in Contemporary Art, the 2014 Concordia International Mobility Award, the 2012 Bourse de Maîtrise en Recherche from the Fonds de recherche société et culture (FQRSC), and the 2011 Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography. His work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and his photographs have appeared in various international media, including The Paris Review, The New York Times, Descant, International Herald Tribune, Granta and the Chicago Tribune.