Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920-2014) born and raised in Mississippi, was a veteran of World War II, serving in the OSS in Burma. After the war, he attended Harvard Business School and received his MBA on the GI Bill and then worked as a businessman in Mississippi and later in Texas.

E. R. Lutken worked as a family physician on the Navajo Nation for many years, then taught science and math in rural Colorado. She is author of a poetry collection, Manifold: poetry of mathematics, and her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies.