Veronique Tadjo is a writer, a poet, and a former professor at the University of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. She is the author of "As the Crow Flies," "Red Earth," and "Reine Pokou," which was awarded the Grand Prix Litteraire d'Afrique Noire. Catherine Groenewald lives on a small farm in South Africa and is involved with a nonprofit initiative called Siphosenkosi that trains disadvantaged women to make an African rag doll called Nosipho. She is the illustrator of "Nosipho Comes to Stay."