Ezra Croft is the creator and curator of The Murray Affair , a traveling art show dedicated to featuring art depicting Bill Murray. Croft is a longtime Burning Man participant and artist. His pop culture art shows (which feature celebrities like Nicholas Cage and Christopher Walken) have been featured in Time magazine, Good Morning America , Huffington Post , and the San Francisco Chronicle . Originally from Saint Louis, Croft currently lives in North Carolina. Jennifer Raiser is a writer, nonprofit leader, and Burner. Burning Man: Art on Fire (2014/2016/2023, Quarto/Epic Ink,) is a love letter to her happiest place on earth, Black Rock City. Known on playa as CocoCabana, she volunteers with the Black Rock Rangers and Gate, Perimeter, and Exodus departments; she has served as the Treasurer and Board Member of the nonprofit Burning Man Project since its founding. She is the author of In the Spirit of Napa Valley (2015, Assouline) and The Art of Being Bill: Bill Murray and the Many Faces of Awesome (2018, Quarto/Race Point Publishing), and has written extensively for the San Francisco Chronicle , Huffington Post , and numerous other publications.
Previously, she founded Raiser Senior Services, managing luxury retirement communities as described in her book Designing Retirement Communities for the Future (1998, John Wiley and Sons). She has gratefully served on thirteen nonprofit boards. She earned both a BA in English Literature and an MBA from Harvard University. A San Francisco native, she lives near the Presidio with a superabundance of pets, books, and costumes.