A Ted Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado, Jonathan Waldman grew up in Washington, DC, studied environmental science and writing at Dartmouth, and earned a master s degree from Boston University s Knight Center for Science Journalism in 2003. He has spent the last decade writing creatively about science, culture, and politics for "Outside", "The Washington Post", "McSweeney s", and others. "Rust" is his first book. He lives in Colorado.

Christopher Lane is a prolific writer who has published 15 books for the inspirational and religious market, including six children's novels, one of which won the Gold Medallion Award and another the C.S. Lewis Award. He continues to write for the Christian market. This first mystery is his debut in the American Booksellers market. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.