Alice Crosetto has more than 35 years of experience as an educator and a librarian. Her research interests include children's literature, urban fiction, and collection management in academic libraries.

Rajinder Garcha is professor emeritus at the University of Toledo. She is the co-author of The World of Islam in Literature for Youth (Scarecrow, 2006).

Crosetto and Garcha are coauthors of Disabilities and Disorders in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 (2009) and Death, Loss, and Grief in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 (2012), both published by Scarecrow Press.