Cynthia Quicksall Landsberg has lived in Colorado for over 35 years. She attended Regis College in Denver and earned a BS in nursing from the University of Colorado. As a registered nurse, Landsberg worked with premature infants at Denver Children's Hospital and also worked as a public health nurse in Colorado Springs. She married attorney David Quicksall, a former Colorado Boys Rancher, and worked as a freelance writer while raising their two daughters. In 1985, her husband was diagnosed with leukemia. They fought the disease for six and a half years until his death in 1991. Landsberg later earned a degree in English from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In 1993, she married attorney Bill Landsberg, who adopted Cynthia's daughters. They also have a son, now eleven years old. Landsberg currently serves on the board of directors for the Colorado Boys Ranch Foundation as well as the Board of Directors of Colorado Association of Family and Children's Agencies. Along with volunteering as a Red Cross nurse, she has dedicated the last several years to writing the stories of these troubled boys. She and her family reside in Monument, Colorado.

Judith Pettibone has been writing for newspapers and magazines as a freelance writer and personal essayist for over 25 years in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's in occupational therapy from Boston University. As a Lamaze instructor, she wrote and co-produced a pregnancy exercise video, Pregnant and Fit, to critical acclaim and wrote informational columns on the prenatal period. She is now the director of a social service agency and community resource center. Pettibone and her husband of 32 years, Tom Graham, are the proud parents of two grown daughters. They reside in Monument, Colorado.