Laurel Snyder is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned an MFA in poetry, and secretly began scribbling her very first picture books. Since then, she has authored more than thirty books for young readers, as well as a few for adults. Laurel's work has been honored with both the Geisel Medal (Charlie and Mouse), and the Sydney Taylor Book Award (The Longest Night), and nominated for the National Book Award (Orphan Island). A Baltimore native, she now lives in a small blue house in Atlanta, where she gardens sporadically.

Vera Brosgol was born in Moscow, Russia in 1984 and moved to the United States when she was five. She received a diploma in Classical Animation from Sheridan College, and spent many years working in feature animation but now she is writing and drawing books full-time.

She has storyboarded for Laika on the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings, and was Head of Story for the Academy-Award-winning Pinnochio.

Her first graphic novel, Anya's Ghost, was published in 2011 by First Second Books and won an Eisner Award. Her first picture book, Leave Me Alone, was published in 2016 by Roaring Brook Press and won a Caldecott Honor.

She lives in Portland, OR with a small dog and a sourdough starter.