Author Will Millard is a writer, television presenter, and fisherman. Will is a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, an Ambassador for The World Fish Migration Day and the Angling Trust. He has written for numerous publications including BBC News, The Daily Telegraph, Vice, The Guardian, Geographical, Fallon's Angler, and Country File Magazine. His first book The Old Man and the Sand Eel for Penguin (Viking) follows a wild journey across Britain in pursuit of a fishing record and he has ghostwritten two books for Penguin including a Sunday Times Bestseller. He lives in Wales with his young family.

Illustrator Joanna Lisowiec originally hails from Poland and was brought up in the U.S. and Switzerland. She now lives in beautiful Yorkshire, England.