Mark Rusin is a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer and retired ATF Special Agent. Rusin was born and raised on the south side of Chicago where he attended Quigley South High School. He went on to study Law Enforcement Administration at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. Priscilla Barton is a writer based in the Southwest, who has also worked as a film curator, book editor, and agitprop artist. A member of Sisters in Crime, she divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the high-desert country of southern Arizona.