DOROTHY ELLEN PALMER is a mother of two, an award-winning disabled senior writer, accessibility advocate and retired teacher. She served on the Accessibility Advisory Board of the Festival of Literary Diversity and regularly appears at literary festivals. She won the Helen Henderson Award for disability journalism, and has published three novels, the memoir Falling for Myself, and her first picture book, The Scooter Twins. She lives in Burlington, Ontario, with her mobility scooter, Rosie.

MARIA SWEENEY is a Moldovan-born, United States-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. Her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban, won an Outstanding Submission for the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards. She writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability.