Patrick Trefz lives and works in Santa Cruz, California. Trefz is an award-winning art, documentary, and action photographer and filmmaker. He has been recognized for three critically acclaimed feature-length documentaries: Thread , Idiosyncrasies , and Surfers' Blood . He has directed multiple music videos, commercials, and shorts. Trefz is known nationally and internationally for work in publications including Surfer , Big , Geo , and The New York Times , and he is the author of Santa Cruz: Visions of Surf City , and Thread . Jamie Brisick 's books include Becoming Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn's Transformation into Westerly Windina ; We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations ; Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow ; and The Eighties at Echo Beach . His writings and photographs have appeared in The New Yorker , The Surfer's Journal , and The New York Times . In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship.
He lives in Los Angeles. Iñigo Urdinaga was born in a small Basque fishing village, Orio, in 1974. He started catching waves when he was a kid, and he still surfs hard. He studied radio and television, and then graduated in Advertising and Public Relations. He has been fond of literature since he was young. Urdinaga worked for one of the largest advertising agencies in the Basque Country. Now he works freelance as a communications consultant. If he does not answer a call, customers can easily guess where he is.
Urdinaga is the author of Surflaria eta Paradisua (The Surfer and Paradise), the first surfing book written in Basque language, one of the oldest languages in Europe. Margaret Cohen hails from New York City. She teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and holds the Andrew B. Hammond Chair of French Language, Literature and Civilization. She is the author of multiple books, including Profane Illumination , and The Novel and the Sea . When she is not teaching or writing, she spends her time in and around Monterey Bay.