Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is a Sigourney Award and three-time Gradiva Award-winning author of eight books, including Please Select Your Gender (2010), Transgender Psychoanalysis (2017), and Bodies to Wear (2025).

Manya Steinkoler, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, New York. The books she has co-edited include Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy (with Patricia Gherovici, 2017; 2025), On Psychoanalysis and Violence (with Vanessa Sinclair, 2019), and Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (with Patricia Gherovici, 2023).