Costuming from the Hip was created and published by a talented team of people.

Dawn Devine Brown, author, illustrator
Dawn is a seamstress, costume historian, belly dancer, and author. She currently splits her time between Sacramento and California's Bay Area. She has been belly dancing since 1985 and has degrees in Art History and Costume Design. In her free time, she collects books on costume design, writes articles for dance publications, and makes costumes.

Learn more about Dawn at her home page.

Barry Brown, editor, layout & design
A computer programmer by day, desktop publisher by night, Barry has been working with computers since 1976. Today, he works for Hewlett-Packard in Sacramento, CA, and teaches at Sierra Community College. During his free time, he enjoys photography (of belly dancers, among other subjects), video production, and bicycling.

Home page: http://www.ibexa.com/bbrown

John Scharmen, illustrator
John claims to be a San Diegan, though he's really originally from Riverside, California. He graduated from UCSD in 1992 with a degree in studio art. In 1993, he somehow stumbled into the occupation of video game artist/animator at Sony where he's been working ever since. He has been drawing since fourth grade, and in the anime style since 1985. His interest in anime got him interested in Japanese music, language, culture, and history, roughly in that order. In 1989, he spent a year in Japan on an exchange program and he has been wanting to go back to visit ever since. He secretly would like to produce a comic book in the anime style, if he could figure out a way to do it and still eat (or figure out how not to eat).

Find out more about John at his home page.

Brian Crites, illustrator
Brian was raised in Sacramento, California, served in the United States Marine Corps, and was a peace officer for the State of California. Brian resides in Northern California with his wife and step daughter. Both Brian and his wife are members of the Ottoman Traders and the Clan of the Ax Fransisca (Renaissance guilds). Brian enjoys creating art, making his own swords and other weapons for Fair, and re-enacting many eras of history.

Katherine Parker, illustrator
Katherine grew up in various overseas countries including South Korea, Australia, and Turkey, where she was lulled to sleep by the Mevlevi Dancers (Whirling Dervishes). She received a B.A. in Studio Art & Art History at UC Davis and is continuing work toward an M.A. at the same institution. Her thesis focuses on Degas' racetrack images. Her spare time is taken up by her horse and dog and painting pictures of them and their kind.