Nathan Vass is a Seattle-based artist and filmmaker who drives a public bus at night. His photography has been featured in festivals and galleries in the Seattle area, and an earlier, self-published version of his book The Lines That Make Us ?was a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award for Nonfiction. Nathan was born in South Central Los Angeles. Paul Constant is a journalist, critic, writer, and comic-book creator. His writing has appeared in BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Business Insider, i09, the Seattle Times, and in many other magazines, newspapers, and websites. A comic that he co-created, Planet of the Nerds , was recently optioned by Paramount Players for a possible film adaptation. He's a fellow at Civic Ventures, a public policy incubator, and a co-founder of the award-winning Seattle Review of Books.