IRMA BOOM is a Dutch bookmaker. Her books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Vatican Library, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among other institutions. Boom received the Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch state prize for the arts. In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London. She teaches at Yale and Harvard Universities.

INGEBORG HARMS is a journalist and literary scholar. She has worked and taught at a number of universities, including Yale University in New Haven, CT, and the University of Bonn, Germany. She is currently a professor of design theory at the Institute for Experimental Clothing and Textile Design at Berlin University of the Arts.