Patricia Partnow is an anthropologist and educator from Alaska who has written culture-based curriculum for museums, cultural organizations, and school districts for decades. She is the author of a number of children's books that combine Alaska Native cultures and history with Western science and social studies. She has two grown children and two young grandchildren who serve as both imagined audience and models for her books.

Diana Magnuson has illustrated over 100 trade, mass market, and educational children's books - many are Native American stories. Early in her career, she illustrated ads, taught art at a mission school in Tanzania, East Africa; pre-school and Headstart in California and fifth grade in Chicago. As an associate professor, she taught Drawing and Illustration at Northern Michigan University, and in a local residential treatment home, magical realism portrait art to at-risk teens. As a member of the Sensoria Artists Collective, she currently exhibits in shows in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.