IZZY PASKOWITZ has competed in, and won, dozens of longboard titles, including the 1988 Hang Ten World Championship. He and his wife, Danielle, own and operate the world-famous Paskowitz Surf Camp. They also run the nonprofit organization Surfers Healing, which offers free surfing day camps to hundreds of autistic children and their families each year. Paskowitz lives with his family in San Juan Capistrano, California.
DANIEL PAISNER is the co-writer of eleven New York Times bestsellers, including Serena Williams's On the Line and Denzel Washington's A Hand to Guide Me, as well as the acclaimed Holocaust memoir, The Girl in the Green Sweater, with Krystyna Chiger - an international bestseller. He lives in Port Washington, New York, with his wife and three children.