Stephany Aulenback’s stories and articles have been published in a number of literary journals, magazines, and websites including McSweeney’s, Brain, Child, and The Awl. Her work has been anthologized in It’s a Boy: Women Writers On Raising Sons and Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor as well as read aloud on NPR. She has been blogging about children, writing, and children’s writing at Crooked House since 2008. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and two small children.

Denise Holmes is an illustrator and designer who lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter, Hazel. When she is not in her studio drawing images of children, trees and cats, she is reading books, dancing to music, and going on neighborhood walks