Judith Durant is an artist and author whose beadwork has been featured at SOFA New York and Chicago and in Beadwork, Interweave Knits, and Piecework magazines. She is the co-author of Memory Makers Great Scrapbooks: Ideas, Tips & Techniques, and has worked in the publishing industry for the past twenty years. Judith lives in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Jean Campbell is founding editor of Beadwork magazine, and has written and edited several bead books for Interweave Press, including The Beader’s Companion (1998) and Beaded Cords, Straps, and Fringe (2001), and the Beadwork Creates series. Jean first used beads as embellishment to her fine arts, furniture, and product designs, and once she caught bead fever she never recovered. Jean lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.