Cindy Baldwin is a children's author and disability activist. Her critically-acclaimed books include Indie Next pick Where the Watermelons Grow and Junior Library Guild selection No Matter the Distance. Cindy lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter.

Irma Ruggiero is an Italian illustrator and author. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples with an illustrated project book for visually impaired children. She later graduated in Illustration at the Italian School of Comics. Her first children's book as an author "Un Fantasmagorico Natale" published by Mondadori Ragazzi, came out in November 2022. She loves to draw little witches, vampires and lovely ghosts.