Helen Kemp Zax could spend all day musing over rhymes, so daily to-do lists keep her life on track. She is co-winner of the 2021 YorkMix International Children's Poetry Prize and winner of the 2018 Middle Grade Katherine Paterson Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies and magazines. A former lawyer and teacher, Kemp Zax holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Leonard, and their Aussie-doodle, Huckleberry Finn. Kiersten Eagan is an illustrator working in children's publishing as well as design for television and film. Eagan is passionate about storytelling and loves using design to help bring stories to life. She studied illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she loves exploring the mountains or spending time by the sea.