J Dalton has drawn two previous graphic novels, a Mesoamerican fantasy story called Lords of Death and Life, and A Mad Tea-Party, a science fiction drama. He has contributed to anthologies such as FTL, Y'All, Tamamo the Fox Maiden and Other Asian Stories, and Failure to Launch. He wrote Phobos and Deimos after teaching in East London for a year and thinking a lot about class and migration. He teaches elementary school in Canada now, and wonders what it would be like to go to space, but only if a bunch of other people did it first.