June Cotner---author, anthologist, and speaker---hails from Poulsbo, WA. She has appeared on national radio programs, and her books have been featured in many national publications including USA TODAY, Better Homes and Gardens, Woman's Day, and Family Circle. Collectively, her books have sold nearly one million copies.

Nancy Tupper Ling is an author, poet, and librarian whose children’s picture books have been published by Lee and Low Books (The Story I’ll Tell), Chronicle Books (Double Happiness), and Penguin Young Readers (The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful, forthcoming in 2018).  Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. In 2005, she won the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize for her poem, “White Birch.” Chosen from over 18,000 submissions, hers was the first poem to win over all other categories including screenplays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, children’s stories, and young adult fiction.