Michael Lotenero, who illustrated “Making It Through the Maze,” has been working professionally as a painter, designer and illustrator for almost 15 years. His work has been exhibited in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, San Mateo and New York. His illustration and design work has been seen in Fast Company, Red Herring, The Progressive and London’s Computer Arts. He has won awards from The Addys, Print’s Regional Design Annuals, Step-by-Step Design 100, AIGA/Pgh, and Graphic Design USA. Lotenero lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two sons.

Work from Michael Gibbs, who created the illustration for “Competing Forces,” appears nationally in books and magazines, on posters and in corporate publications. He has won awards from every major peer organization, including the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts magazine, American Illustration and others. Gibbs lives in Clifton, Va., with his wife and two children.

San Francisco-based photographer Robyn Twomey, who shot Sheri Sheppard for this month’s cover and for the profile “Opening Doors,” spends her days shooting all over the West Coast for magazines like Newsweek, New York, Wired and her favorite indy rag, Mass Appeal. She is currently working on a personal series about female rappers from around the world. While shooting the Prism story, Twomey was thrilled to meet another woman—Sheri Sheppard—in a male-dominated field.