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Michael McCloskey is Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. McCloskey received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University in 1978, and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty at that time. He has been studying dysgraphia in adults and children for 30 years, and recently co-edited the book Developmental Dysgraphia with Prof. Brenda Rapp. Prof. McCloskey is the author of the book Visual reflections: A Perceptual Deficit and its Implications, and has published over 100 journal articles on a variety of topics. He has also served at the National Science Foundation as director of the Human Cognition and Perception Program, and chair of the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Program.

Brenda Rapp is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Elementary and Special Education and worked for a number of years as a learning disabilities teacher with children with dyslexia and dysgraphia in both English and Spanish. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology at Johns Hopkins University where she joined the faculty in 1994. She has done extensive research in the area of acquired and developmental dysgraphia and co-edited the book Developmental Dysgraphia with Prof. Michael McCloskey. She has published more than 125 papers, served as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Academia of Aphasia, and is currently the editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology.