Put On the Noise is the first published work by Marion J. Goff and her twin daughters Alexandra and Devin Karambelas, who wrote the collection in memory of their husband and father Dennis Karambelas. Dennis was a prominent optometrist in Providence, Rhode Island who died in 2017 from cancer only three months after diagnosis. Marion lives in Middletown, Rhode Island. Alexandra and Devin are based in Burlington, Vermont and Cambridge, Massachusetts.