A.J. Miele is the author of an epic novel of romance, mystery, and science fiction.  He is a native of the District of Columbia and its suburbs. In pursuit of his career as a writer, he has worked as a telephone relay operator and English tutor for deaf people and been a full-time Visiting Student among deaf students at Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts university in the world for individuals who are deaf.  He has shelved books at the National Library of Medicine and driven a cab in Washington, DC, and its suburbs.  As a Waiter in an Arena Stage production of The Matchmaker, he fumbled to pick up a table and silverware upset by a nutty character.  He typed the catalog at Sloane's Auction Gallery and handled cash in a kiosk at a Texaco gas station.  He has been a courier for a radiology firm and a temporary secretary for countless other firms.  He bailed hay and fed calves on a ranch and farm in Colorado and he hefted shoulder-high loads of dos por cuatros and cuatro por cuatros on a Spanish-speaking construction crew in Miami.  Not forgetting that he has a bachelor's in English and a master's in American Literature, he is presently a researcher for a major labor union.

Sung Kim is deaf.  She graduated from Gallaudet University with a bachelor's in Art.  Sung grew up in South Korea and is now an American citizen.  Her family fled from North to South Korea at the beginning of the Korean War, leaving some family members behind.  With Korea being divided at the 38th parallel at the end of the war, these family members were never seen again.  Sung is fluent in American Sign Language, English, Korean Sign Language, and Korean.   In the early 1980s, Sung attended the Seoul Theological Seminary.  She came to America in 1987 and attended Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, transferring to Gallaudet after receiving an associate's degree in Fine Art.