Tim Page is a professor of journalism and music at the University of Southern California. He has been a music critic at the New York Times, Newsday, and The Washington Post. In the early nineties, Page’s research led to the discovery of the papers and diaries of Dawn Powell; this in turn led tothe subsequent reissue of the majority of her novels. In 1998 he published a highly acclaimed biography of Powell and in 2001 he edited and annotated the Library of America’s two-volume collection of her work. Page lives in Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Sasha Anawalt is director of USC Annenberg Arts Journalism Programs. A faculty member of USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, she founded the Masters degree program in Specialized Journalism (The Arts) in 2008 and directs the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, as well as the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater. In October 2009, she directed and produced with Douglas McLennan the first-ever virtual National Summit on Arts Journalism, streamed live from USC Annenberg. She wrote the best-selling cultural biography, The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company. Anawalt was dance critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, LA Weekly and for nearly a decade contributed "Dance Notes" to KCRW. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.